Additional thoughts from me: 1) SNP needs to learn how to govern before calling for independence. 2) I do not like that Corbyn may be leading Labour for a while. I consider his policies anti-capitalist. YMMV but capitalism has worked really well for a long time. 3) Another woman underperforms at the polls.
SNP loses their first seat to Labour.. However, seems that Conservatives were the big swing getting most of the SNP's losses, but still finishing a distant 3rd
Multiple Labour pickups of a Conservative seats.. exit polls are seeming to be fairly accurate so far
Is it sad that I have the USMNT game on TV, but turned down and BBC live stream turned up on my phone?
SNP is down 5.. +3 Conservative/+2 Labour.. could end up being a Conservative majority on the back of Scottish Unionists.
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In a word, no! Well, not for many years... probably since the 80's. I found it hard to get very excited for Blair who was largely tory-lite. Cameron and Blair could have sat in the same cabinet, NO problem. After the brexit debacle I thought it important to try and push a more sensible approach because 'business as usual' isn't really an option atm.
They're amending the initial exit poll as more results come in. It's been reduced now to 318 now on the same basis.
Hmm... good question. Let's just say it's now more of a close-run thing But, in practical terms, no... he's still the worst and y some margin. Don't forget, he's the one that created the position May, (and the rest of us), found herself in.
Well, quite! Oh... that wasn't a rhetorical question. Well, it depends on the precise maths involved in terms of seats. The DUP would normally vote with the tories. The conservatives used to be the conservative and unionist party. Apart from that for most of the past couple of decades the policies of labour, the liberals and the greens have been largely interchangeable. The only reason we've had conservative governments is because our first past the post electoral system favours one relatively united party rather than several not-united ones. So, in terms of a hung parliament, you've got the tories and the DUP versus 'the rest' and this is in the context of a parliament of 650 seats. If the tories get more than 326 seats, (actually 323 because Sinn Fein don't take their seats), they'll need the support of another party and the DUP are the only real possibility.
Looks like combination of DUP support and Sinn Fien not taking seats may mean a conservative government.
Just to clear up something that might be confusing some of our foreign readers, to make it absolutely plain... Any MP voted into parliament has precisely the same number of votes in the commons as any other MP, including the prime minister, chancellor or whatever else... ONE!