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| Labour |
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907 | 49.92% |
| Theresa May Team (Conservative) |
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48 | 2.64% |
| Liberal Democrats |
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31 | 1.71% |
| UKIP |
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13 | 0.72% |
| Plaid Cymru |
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25 | 1.38% |
| Green |
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22 | 1.21% |
| Scottish Socialist Party |
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12 | 0.66% |
| Scottish Conservative Party |
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1 | 0.06% |
| Scottish National Party |
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59 | 3.25% |
| Some Kind of Irish Unionist |
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4 | 0.22% |
| Alliance / Irish Nonsectarian |
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3 | 0.17% |
| Some Kind of Irish Nationalist |
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36 | 1.98% |
| Misc. Far Left Trots |
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35 | 1.93% |
| Misc. Far Right Fash |
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8 | 0.44% |
| Monster Raving Loony |
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49 | 2.70% |
| Space Navies Party |
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39 | 2.15% |
| Independent / Single Issue |
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2 | 0.11% |
| Can't Vote |
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188 | 10.35% |
| Won't Vote |
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8 | 0.44% |
| Spoiled Ballot |
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15 | 0.83% |
| Pissflaps |
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312 | 17.17% |
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So maybe it's too early to ask this, but is there any general consensus on why Labour flipped the table and gained like 30 seats? From my understanding the general consensus was that May was probably going to wring a majority out of the elections, and I figured back to back deadly terrorist attacks would be a Tory wet dream given the universal conservative love of fearmongering voters. But somehow she apparently hosed it all up in glorious fashion.
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NewMars posted:Youth vote, actually good and likeable policies and corbyn being The Boy. Cool. OwlFancier posted:Why did trump win, other than racism? Populism, general voter ignorance, and Putin.
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Mister Adequate posted:The terror attacks didn't do their expected right-wing-aiding shite because the loving police cuts became a MASSIVE issue as a result. Thanks  Zoran posted:So I would say Hillary face planted mainly because she refused to offer anyone a better life and in fact swore up and down that it could never happen. Yeah I also forgot to mention that Trump won because the Dems put forward an eminently unlikable and distant candidate with tons of political baggage
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Jun 9, 2017 05:52
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jabby posted:No real word yet on how the majority of pollsters got it so catastrophically wrong yet again. Obviously it was the youth vote wot done it, but I don't envy the people who now have to try and reweight their polls to make them accurate. I do wonder if we could start seeing Labour leads in the polls though. The youth vote is notoriously hard to poll. Both because a lot of it is made up of University students who don't necessarily live where they're being polled, and because they're fickle as gently caress when it comes to actually turning up to vote.
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Zero Gravitas posted:Watch. So basically May is willing to spark a potential bloodbath to hold on to even the most tenuous scraps of power. Peak Tory.
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BobTheJanitor posted:We're so desperate for any glimmer of hope that we're trying to live vicariously through yours. Yeah just when you think you've finally been desensitized to Trump the former FBI director comes out and pretty much stops a hair short of saying he obstructed justice, and the best defense the Republicans can give is that Trump is an idiot and didn't know any better so it's all okay. Watching the UK not gently caress it up was a nice turn around.
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Jun 9, 2017 23:12
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This is A Good PostTM It almost seems like the best option for May would be to accept the hung parliament and try again with another vote? Granted her last campaign was a loving disaster, but forming a coalition with the DUP sounds like a complete dead end. Or is there actually a legitimate threat that Labour could scrape together a minority coalition?
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Would it even be possible to stop Brexit at this point if people wanted to? I thought the triggering of article 50 was a point of no return legally.
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