The UK political thread (formerly independence thread)

[Jobdone]

Realised I don't like what the conservatives have been doing, and agree with most of the Labour policies so easy vote for me.

[Danroush]

But they have been saying that anyway, "Time to care" is a name given for the specific way in which they intend to spend it, not just vague political phrasing.

I was completely unaware of that, and I'd imagine most of the people seeing it will also be unaware of it. Thus it's a bit of a failure, because as far as I was concerned, it was just vague political phrasing.

Yeah, I can't deny that


Voted Green after having to really fucking fight for my vote and make the city council give me an emergency proxy after they fucked up my application. Couldn't vote in local due to being here in Germany apparently, but I think that's another cock up from them, as from what I've heard students can vote both in their hometown and student town, so it would make sense that I could still vote in Nottingham whilst here.

[cthulhu]

The BBC have a little game trying to explain hung parliaments by getting you to form a coalition by adding various parties' seats to either Labour or the Tories. There evidently hasn't been much thought put into it after that as I managed to get Labour a majority with the help of the Lib-Dems along with Sinn Féin and DUP...

Is that that interactive map thing where you drag the faces into the square and it says if they're a match or not?

[WorMzy]

So did anyone vote after all this discussion then?

lol nope.

Better things to do with my time.

[Czech's Mate]

Voted Green....as the labour candidate has just been convicted in the magistrate s court for financial crimes....for once a politician busted before he was elected

[Tet]

So it looks like the Conservatives will have a sizeable lead over Labour and will only need support from a minor party to reach a majority. The big question is, will the LibDems win enough seats to allow them to fill that role, or will they need to look elsewhere?

There was no good outcome from this election for me, but that probably counts as one of the least worst results.

[Gandalf the Red]

Only exit polls though. I've seen enough of those being wrong over the years including one that gave Neil Kinnock a landslide victory.

I'm looking forward to Paddy Pantsdown eating his hat though.

[NeglectedField]

YouGov's exit poll is slightly different.

[Fjar]

Hope the exit poll is wrong.

[Moonburp]

Very close to voting SNP. Went Red instead.

[houston4044]

Think the biggest non-surprise so far has been the Lib Dems losing their deposit; think everyone saw that coming

[Danroush]

Hope the exit poll is wrong.

This. Also jesus christ that's embarrassingly low for Lib Dem, a party who's vote share last time would give them well over 100 seats in a PR system.

Sleep pattern is fucked so I'm in this for the long haul. Fuck, I've already got the big bag of crisps out.

[Fjar]

Farage failing to win his seat would be glorious.

[Moonburp]

Hope the exit poll is wrong.

This. Also jesus christ that's embarrassingly low for Lib Dem, a party who's vote share last time would give them well over 100 seats in a PR system.

Good, tbh. This is their comeuppance for what happened in 2010.

[cthulhu]

I love how every time they read out the votes at each seat the second the Lib Dems get told their (too low to be a majority) number the crowd cheer them sarcastically.