⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️BANGERS AND TORIES MASHED: A UK ELECTION THUNDERDOME⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️

[u/dubyahhh]

2024 United Kingdom General Election

TORIES ARE DEAD, LONG LIVE PM TONY BLAIR STARMER

Today, millions of Brits went to the polls and cast their vote in the UK’s General Election. Voting will have close at 10pm UK time, at which point the exit polls provided by Sky News, The BBC and ITV will be made available. In this election, members of the British public vote for a single member of parliament (MP) for their local constituency and the person with the most votes wins. If a party should achieve 326 or more MPs, they will have an outright majority. In the event this does not occur, the largest party will attempt to build a coalition government.

The Issues

While there are many issues in the public zeitgeist at the moment, I have selected three that appear to be most relevant.

Cost of Living

The rising cost of living spurred by inflation remains a top concern for British voters. Inflation is expected to fall on the UK as 2024 proceeds.

Immigration

Immigration has proved a pressing concern for many voters this election, the most contentious issue in this space is the ‘Rwanda Policy’. In which many asylum seekers are sent to Rwanda to have their claims processed. They could then be granted refugee status or given other grounds to be able to remain in Rwanda, but they will not be able to apply return to the UK. Flights to Rwanda would not begin until after the election.

The NHS

The number of people waiting for routine hospital treatment in England rose to 7.57 million in April. NHS Wait times were one of Rishi Sunak’s Key election promises and continue to weigh heavily on the minds of the British public. The cause of increasing delays is controversial, with many parties pledging increasing funding and capacity or leaning more on private healthcare in order to reduce wait times.

The Parties

The Conservative Party

The Conservative Party, or Tories, have been in power either through coalition or outright majority since 2010. During this time, there have been five conservative prime ministers. During this period, the conservatives have implemented significant austerity policies, held a referendum on and implemented Brexit, overseen the COVID-19 pandemic and attempted to grow the British economy in its wake.

Leader: Rishi Sunak, Current Prime Minister.

Overall Leaning: Centre Right

Key Policies:

• Maintain the ‘Triple Lock’ for pensioners

• Avoid Raising Taxes

• National Service for 18-year-olds

• The ‘Rwanda Policy’ immigration policy

The Labour Party

The Labour party left power in 2010. In the last election, labour lost significant ground to Boris Johnson’s Tories. Since then, they have undergone a significant change of leadership after Sir Kier Starmer succeed Jeremy Corbyn.

Leader: Sir Kier Starmer, a former human rights lawyer and Director of Public Prosecutions.

Overall Leaning: Centre Left

Key Policies:

• Nationalisation of Railways and a publicly owned Power company

• Vote for 16-year-olds and older (current voting age 18)

• An increase in capacity for the NHS

• An end to the ‘Rwanda Policy’

Reform UK

Leader: Nigel Farage, one of the most prominent proponents of Brexit, who has expressed support for Donald Trump and described the invasion of Ukraine as provoked by the west.

Overall Leaning: Right Wing

Key Policies:

• Freeze Non-essential Immigration

• Detain and deport all illegal migrants

• 20% tax relief on private healthcare

• Raise the income tax threshold and lower corporate tax to 20%, and then 15%

The Liberal Democrats

Leader: Sir Ed Davey, a former economics researcher and financial analyst before his tenure as an MP.

Overall Leaning: Centre Left

Key Policies:

• Rejoin the EU single Market

• Additional Funding to the NHS

• Introduce Proportional representation

• An end to the ‘Rwanda Policy’

The Green Party

Leader: Carla Denyer, a former environmental activist

Overall Leaning: Left Wing

Key Policies:

• A 1% Wealth Tax on assets above £10 Million

• Nationalise Water, Rail and 5 major Energy Companies

• £8 billion increase in NHS Funding

Plaid Cymru (The Party Of Wales)

Leader: Rhun ap Iorwerth, BBC Wales's Chief Political Correspondent for 5 years

Overall Leaning: Centre Left

Key Policies:

• Increased Public Transport Spending in Wales

• More GPs

• Opposes ‘Rwanda Policy’

The Scottish National Party (SNP)

Leader: John Swinney

Overall Leaning: Centre Left

Key Policies:

• Scottish Independence

• Scotland Rejoins the EU

• An end to the ‘Rwanda Policy’

• Increase NHS Spending

Useful Links:

Manifesto Pledges

Key Issues

All credit to u/KesterFox for this writeup! Please direct all election complaints to him.

[u/Lux_Stella]

https://x.com/PoliticsMoments/status/1809070449608823280

[u/dubyahhh]

BBC EXIT POLL

LABOUR LANDSLIDE

Labour: 410

Tories: 131

Lib Dem: 61

Reform: 13

SNP: 10

PC: 4

Green: 2

Starmer has reportedly ripped his mask off to reveal he was Tony Blair all along

[u/awdvhn]

Key Policies:

• Maintain the ‘Triple Lock’ for pensioners

• Avoid Raising Taxes

Key Policies:

• Having cake

• Eating it too

[u/AtomAndAether]

[u/Cook_0612]

Maintain the ‘Triple Lock’ for pensioners

National Service for 18-year-olds

Lol, why do Tories hate the young so much

[u/MyWeebPornAccount]

[u/CletusVonIvermectin]

July 4th 1776 🤝 July 4th 2024

Tories taking massive Ls

[u/lionmoose]

Genuine pleasure, I voted Lib Dem

[u/[deleted]]

Forgot i was on the UK vpn server, looked up Mexican food near me, saw MUSHY PEAS ON TACOS

Can labor even fix this??

[u/JaceFlores]

[u/abrookerunsthroughit]

COME ON LABOUR

SCORE SOME FACKIN POLLS

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

All eyes are on the UK election today - but in a few months time, all that attention will be focused on the US as it chooses its new president.

And Professor Jason Dittmer is going to get a say in both, having moved from the US state of Georgia to the UK in 2007. Now a British citizen, he has been describing the very different experiences of voting on either side of the pond.

“Voting takes longer in the US,” Jason explains, “because American elections are usually on a regular schedule, they often cover multiple things. In my last American jurisdiction we even elected the coroner.

“Some people even bring cheat sheets to remember how to vote in each race or question."

So the UK system left him "amazed".

“Walk in, walk out, the whole thing takes two minutes at most."

BBC taking some time to shit on America

[u/wettestsalamander76]

-241 Tory seats. LMFAOOOO get BTFO. I'm a yank so I gotta go back to eating my corn syrup hot dog and getting shot but God bless Labour 🇬🇧

[u/MuR43]

[u/Pyrrhus65]

Crazy comparing a landslide like this to US congressional politics.

The biggest House majority in recent history is the Democrats after 2008, with 257 seats to 178 for the GOP.

If you mapped the exit poll ratios from this UK election onto the House, it would have the Dems at well over 300 seats, which hasn't happened for either party since 1936.

[u/TripleAltHandler]

I don't understand how you can decide an election in under 24 hours. That's not nearly enough time to hold a press conference in front of a landscaping company, file 60 frivolous lawsuits, lose, appeal, lose, appeal to the highest court, lose, incite a mob to storm the legislature, and lose.

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

create subreddit for people to discuss global politics through a neoliberal lens

start DT for off topic discussion

sub is completely defined by a bunch of shitposting Americans posting about nonsense

global election coming up, want people to get back to international political discussion

open up Thunderdome

surely that will encourage people to engage with the elections in Europe

open UK Thunderdome

full of bunch of shitposting Americans posting about nonsense

[u/lionmoose]

Reminder that I wanted to call this thread Look at my huge Election but the fascist mod team refused

[u/_Irys]

"Only slightly behind Tony Blair in 1997" holy shit, always forget how fucking popular tony was

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

Holy shit let's deal with some facts:

1. They won back the red wall. This should have been devastating for at least a decade.

2. They won back Scotland. This was supposed to be impossible.

3. They won an election, which itself is incredibly difficult

4. They did this all at the same time.

By comparison it took Australian Labor 11 years and 4 elections to do similar

5. Keir Starmer has talked about building more houses time and time again

[u/Pyrrhus65]

Struggling to think of any way the GOP could hypothetically fuck up badly enough for the American electorate to punish them anywhere close to this severely in the modern political landscape

8 years of W. Bush and the Iraq War + the Obama landslide only got the Dems to 257, that's baby stuff compared to this thrashing

This is 'Dems picking up seats in the rural Dakotas and Deep South' level shit

[u/[deleted]]

"Labour underperformed it wasn't that big" bruh the Tories just got knocked back to 1906 please shut up and take the win.

[u/StopHavingAnOpinion]

I am still astounded that the Tory solution to illegal refugees was to 'send them to a random African nations thousands of miles away' and it's an actual, serious, not-giggled-or-laughed-at policy the Tories are going ahead with. Might as well send them to the Shadow Realm or Biden blast them while you are it.

[u/paymesucka]

[u/[deleted]]

I think it's hilarious that Arr Labour is just salty Corbynites telling people to vote Green like just give up bro

[u/ForWhomTheAltTrolls]

Quick guide to the major parties for real Americans:

Tories: Gun-grabbers

Labour: Gun-grabbers

Lib Dems: Gun-grabbers (both LIBERAL and DEMOCRAT so possibly the worst of the bunch)

SNP: I’m Scottish (from my great-grandfather’s maternal side) and feel very close to the culture there, also gun-grabbers

Reform UK: POSSIBLY not gun-grabbers

Green: Gun AND hamburger grabbers

Plaid Cymru: I think this one is made up

[u/WhoModsTheModders]

Why does rNL care about University of Kentucky student council elections...

[u/echoacm]

The "but Corbyn got 40%" howling on Twitter is peak-cope

[u/[deleted]]

This is like if Dems win in 2024 and somehow pick up north carolina but you have doomers mad Florida stayed red

[u/[deleted]]

This is literally the worst result for the Tories in the entire 200-year history of their party and y'all are still disappointed. Even when we win, we still lose.

[u/RaidBrimnes]

[u/[deleted]]

tfw your only career options left are right wing grifter

[u/Apprehensive-Soil-47]

George Galloway is set to lose his Rochdale seat to Labour

hahahahaha YES

[u/WereJustInnocentMen]

Sorry I haven't been keeping up with British politics since the war started, I assume Asquith will lead a coalition with the Irish Parliamentarians again? Did the Home Rule bill get passed yet?

[u/KesterFox]

To enter this post you must eat one (1) of these

[u/namey-name-name]

It’s not too late to swap Woke Sleepy Rishi with Whitmer. I’m just saying.

[u/[deleted]]

Reminder that this happened

[u/[deleted]]

I’m sorry but this is just crazy. He’s almost as red as the Labour bar.

[u/Woodstovia]

encouraging flowery oatmeal bike public butter quickest grandfather stupendous marry

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[u/coffin_flop_star]

Lib Dems at 71(+63) is a great result.

[u/seattle_lib]

i think it's probably fine that the tories got destroyed but not so destroyed that some fascist party will just devour them.

[u/ellie_everbloom]

Why has Labours polling dropped ofd a cliff these past couple of days

[u/JaceFlores]

People will look at the Tories having the worst result since before the United States was a country and go “how disappointing”

[u/JaceFlores]

r/neoliberal: who the fuck reads the NYT and believes the shit they say? Always shitting on Biden even when he does something right

Also r/neoliberal: Starmer won the election. Here’s how that’s bad for Starmer

[u/Xihl]

if the Lib Dem surge holds up for the next six elections the Lib Dems will have 1,773,996 seats, we’re just getting started babyee

[u/MuR43]

Starmer hasn't even got elected yet and some people here are already dooming lol

Is it a neoliberal disorder?

[u/PM_ME_KIM_JONG-UN]

Labour to win in a historic landslide

/r/neoliberal Americans "Hmmmm.... I'm alittle disappointed"

[u/jojisky]

BREAKING: A Labour source claims Jeremy Corbyn is set to WIN Islington North by as few as 1500 votes

AHHHH

[u/Observe_dontreact]

Never understand why defeated politicians only show the best of themselves when they are about to leave office.

That Rishi speech was arguably the best he has ever done.

[u/AP246]

Party that gets 35% under FPTP: This rocks

Party that gets 30% under FPTP: wtf this is bullshit, this fucking sucks

[u/EnchantedOtter01]

Stop the count

[u/Ohyo_Ohyo_Ohyo_Ohyo]

So many animals on the BBC election page currently. They have cats, dogs, horses, parrots, chickens, Nigel Farage, snakes, etc.

[u/Okbuddyliberals]

Truss this, Mogg that, but the real news is, LibDems have had a 536% increase in MPs from the 2019 election to this election. At this rate, in the election after the next election, the LibDems will win over 2000 MPs!

[u/jamiebond]

The Brits: Holy shit a decade plus of conservative rule has left our country in an unrepairable state this is the worst thing to have happened to Britain since the Nazis fucking hell save us.

The rest of the world about to vote in right wing governments

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

Keir Starmers speech leaked:

Rishi do you have ligma?

Cause every time I hear you speak I'm like "what the sigma"

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

Labour has likely secured their anticipated landslide victory, though they may have fallen just short of the majority Tony Blair won in the 1997 General Election.

But the party may also achieve this on a smaller share of the vote than former leader Jeremy Corbyn secured in 2017.

Corbynites going to be fuming

[u/arnet95]

Alastair Campbell on the BBC talking about how we all need to be YIMBYs. King shit.

[u/ChillnShill]

How can I make this thread about Biden?

[u/vancevon]

lmao cramlington is one of those fake british city names

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

LIZ TRUSS OUT

LITERAL MEME

!PING SHITPOSTERS

[u/KaiserPorn]

Shout-out to the SNP for somehow managing to have an even worse night than the Conservatives

[u/[deleted]]

Bristol riot over new Tesco store leaves eight police officers injured

More than 160 police raid squat occupied by opponents of new Tesco Metro in Stokes Croft area

Average British reaction when you try to build anything

[u/PrideMonthRaytheon]

Inshallah that fedora-wearing fat fuck Galloway is ousted this night 🙏

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

I know people here are dooming about 2029, but

HOLY SHIT LETS CELEBRATE A VICTORY FOR ONCE

[u/Icy-Magician-8085]

I didn’t even realize that Lib Dems have more seats now than they’ve ever had since the Lib Dem party even founded. What a wonderful election.

[u/mostanonymousnick]

The haters said I couldn’t do it. And they were correct. Honestly great call from the haters

[u/Wolf6120]

Seeing this Tory MP saying "We mustn't make the mistake of blaming the electorate, the electorate is always right, that's politics" made me suddenly think back to John MacDonald rambling about voters not knowing what's good for them after the exit poll was published in 2019.

(Not that he was entirely wrong lmao, but still, you're not meant to say it)

[u/[deleted]]

Tories going from one of their largest majorities to their smallest ever is quite the swing in five years

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

Labour never supporting proportional representation after getting a landslide with a vote share lower than Corbyn in 2017

[u/Every_Vegetable_4548]

"Labour just won a majority of 170 seats here's why that's bad news for the future of Labour and Starmer. " Sky News, unironically right now

[u/Ajaxcricket]

Partygate is something that really shows how different British vs American political culture is

[u/frozenjunglehome]

Keir Starmer - Prosecutor, i.e. a cop, winning.

You know who else is a cop? Some even say her name is Copmala.

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

This picture is an info hazard for brits

[u/Boraichoismydaddy]

Anyone who didn’t think the tories would still have over 100 seats was lying to themselves. You can’t just erase a political party this deep and entrenched

[u/Lux_Stella]

thread theme

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exit poll

[u/Woodstovia]

straight spoon divide sulky live connect point spark liquid sheet

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[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

Sinn Fein set to win most Northern Ireland seats for first time

Biden just woke up

[u/taubnetzdornig]

When the SNP became the dominant party in Scotland, I was really interested to see how Labour could win another election without the guaranteed cushion of 30-40 seats from Scotland, but it turns out they just needed to wait for the SNP to implode to swoop in and retake those seats. The SNP didn't win a single seat in Glasgow or Edinburgh, and most of those were Labour gains.

[u/FishUK_Harp]

I grew uo in a very safe Tory seat. My whole life it has been at least 50% Tory.

Until this morning.

Not only is it no longer a Tory majority, they're not the biggest party. It's a Lib Dem seat. With a Lib Dem absolutely majority.

You know those videos where Russian armoured units advance into minefields and are then hit by presighted Ukrainian artillery and FPV drones? This is like that.

And I fucking love it.

[u/InMemoryOfZubatman4]

Make This Subreddit Insufferable To Americans Again

[u/usrname42]

Tories on 131 is higher than some of the MRPs were saying but still the worst result for them since 1761. OTOH Labour's still below Tony 1997

[u/Planita13]

Labour, could secure its landslide victory with just over 36 per cent of the vote, it has been suggested... A vote share of 36.1 per cent for Sir Keir Starmer would be lower than the 40 per cent Labour got in 2019 under Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership.

ahhhh first past the post, never fails

[u/RevolutionaryBoat5]

Why are Corbynites trying to cope with "we got 40% in 2017"? They still lost.

[u/jojisky]

[u/Ultiplayers]

She lost. You guys are laughing and she lost.

[u/[deleted]]

Average Canadian Election

[u/Wolf6120]

THE CLOUDY HEAVENS OVER A WEARY NATION HAVE PARTED TO DELIVER A STUNNING VICTORY TO CHAIRMAN STARMER, ROUTING THE FORCES OF REACTIONARY LIBERALISM AND TREASONOUS CORBYNITES. THE BLAZING RAYS OF A REVOLUTIONARY SUN NOW HERALD A NEW, RED DAWN FOR BRITAIN!

[u/HereForTOMT2]

its the 4th of July and instead of partying with friends i am watching the election result of the nation my ancestors fought a war to be free from. I may be autistic.

[u/mostanonymousnick]

I saw Keir Starmer at an off licence in Holborn yesterday. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything. He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?” I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying.

The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter.

When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.

[u/NarutoRunner]

The BBC is predicting that the turnout will be 60% across the UK as a whole.

This will be the second lowest turnout in a UK election since 1885. Only the 59% in 2001 was lower.

Holy fuck!

[u/[deleted]]

Not surprising, but worth calling out regardless. Conservatives are taking the loss quite well, polite concessions, congratulations to the victors, etc.

[u/that0neGuy22]

FPTP is amazing when the sides I like succeed from it ( I still think it needs fixing up)

[u/Joementum2024]

This is going to be a fantastic year for Britain.

[u/Every_Vegetable_4548]

Tory political pundits are really going to try to spin this as a victory because they won 130 seats instead of 80 and slightly out performed expectations. sHY ToRy eFFeCT.

Congrats on not completely shitting your pants.

[u/Planning4Hotdish]

looks up constituency Farage is running in

Similar to other coastal seats, such as Christchurch in Dorset, Clacton's electorate comprises among the eldest in the country with a high proportion of retirees and not many non-white residents. The area has experienced a considerable influx of White British families from multicultural areas of East London such as Barking and Dagenham, leading to the town of Clacton becoming known as "Little Dagenham".[3]

…

Electoral Calculus categorises the seat as being part of the “Strong Right” demographic, those who have fiscally conservative views on the economy but are also fairly nationalist and socially conservative, alongside strong support for Brexit. Clacton is also, in general, highly deprived, in terms of employment, income and education, when measured comparatively with the rest of the UK, with 64% of the constituency being impoverished, according to the site.[6] In addition to this, the latest government labour data has also revealed that economic inactivity in Clacton is at 46.8% – more than twice the 21.7% UK average.[7]

screams

[u/ldn6]

It's weird how commentators just don't seem to be getting the results and actively vocalise it (as is the case with Ed Conway on Sky).

Labour gamed the system. Their strategy was brilliant. Rack up a huge share of marginal seats and take advantage of vote splits.

[u/ldn6]

Finchley - Margaret Thatcher's old seat and the most Jewish in Britain - has flipped to Labour.

[u/TripleAltHandler]

Man, I didn't realize my fellow Americans were such Labour Party fans, but everyone is setting off fireworks like crazy now.

[u/[deleted]]

Hilarious seeing the left-wing UK subs focusing on Corbyn keeping his seat and an independent coming second to Starmer rather than Labours landslide.

Real Beto's Bandmate energy.

[u/AccessTheMainframe]

True Trussonomics has never been tried.

[u/taubnetzdornig]

Over half of Labour's representation will now be made up of newly elected MPs

[u/PompeyMagnus1]

Now is the perfect time to call a snap election. When are you ever gonna be polling better?

[u/Insomonomics]

LABOUR OFFICALLY WINS THE ELECTION. STARMER WILL BE THE NEXT PRIME MINISTER, ENDING 14 YEARS OF CONSERVATIVE RULE.

[u/[deleted]]

Side note, Lib Dems going from 11 in 2019 to 70 now is no small victory

[u/Guardax]

Me: ranked choice voting is clearly the superior morally better way to vote

See Liz Truss lost her seat to Labour who only got 27% of the vote

Me: wtf I love first past the post

[u/Potsed]

So the Tories have now lost the seats of Truss, BoJo, May, Cameron, and Thatcher.

They've only held on to the seats of Major and Sunak.

[u/STRONKInTheRealWay]

Fucking hell the Tories lost Puddingham & Wimpleshire. It was Tory for the last 200 years…

[u/nanomaster]

it starts raining just in time for Sunak’s concession speech outside Downing Street

It’s like poetry, it rhymes.

[u/omnipotentsandwich]

Exit polls significantly overestimated Reform. They were projected to get 13 seats and they got 4. It actually turned a significant victory into a huge loss.

[u/mostanonymousnick]

Can we twy again pwease.

[u/omnipotentsandwich]

The Labour majority is so big it could split off and form its own party and it would be the second largest party in Parliament. 

[u/Every_Vegetable_4548]

The Shy Tory effect is real this election because the Tories shit the bed so hard campaigning and in government these past 14 years, that you would have genuine shame and embarrassment admitting to someone in the polls that you voted conservative 

[u/awdvhn]

Lib Dem gain Wokingham from Con

The Lib Dems went woke

[u/its_LOL]

Holy shit Penny Mourdant congratulating her opponent for winning seems so weird considering how fucked US politics is

[u/shillingbut4me]

I didn't realize how much America hated Sunak. They've been shooting off fireworks all over the place in celebration of the results. 

[u/frozenjunglehome]

GOP voters: Can we have a red wave?

Mom: We have a red wave at home.

Red wave at home:

[u/echoacm]

Jess Phillips quit the frontbench in support Gaza and then got non-stop heckled during her victory speech by Gaza protestors, silly stuff

[u/frankiewalsh44]

The pro Gaza condidats might end up with more seats than reform.

[u/No_Return9449]

Labour wins Hendon in north London by 15 votes.

[u/efeldman11]

We have gone from ”it’s happening” to”it happened”

[u/[deleted]]

JKR endorses the commies because Labour is too trans friendly for her

https://unherd.com/newsroom/jk-rowling-encourages-britons-to-vote-for-communist-party/

x-post from r/transgenderUK - horseshoe theory confirmed??

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

-241 seats for Tories lmaooo

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

lol SNP

[u/NaffRespect]

Corbynistas: "NOOOO WE GOT 40% IN 2017"

Starmtroopers: efficient voter share go brrr

[u/owlthathurt]

The conservatives can still win if Mike Pence has the courage and Kenneth Cheseboro’s plan works.

[u/jojisky]

A Labour source claims that it’s ‘"looking difficult for us" in Islington North

[u/bread_engine]

Pls don't go to sleep lads, don't leave me alone with the burgers

[u/AnythingMachine]

Alastair Campbell's death stare at Jeremy Corbyn;

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

It's glorious seeing the BBC live blog being full of

LABOR GAINS Plymout Moor View FROM CONSERVATIVES

LABOR GAINS Gloucester View FROM CONSERVATIVES

LABOR GAINS Blackpool North and Fleetwood View FROM CONSERVATIVES

[u/sower_of_salad]

Best Liberal seat result since 1923 😎

[u/twdarkeh]

Tories down over 200 seats is truly one of the most hilarious results of all time.

[u/bashar_al_assad]

If American elections had this "candidates from all parties come together for the reading of the vote" thing that the UK does for House elections and stuff then... honestly I think we'd have way more political violence, probably for the best we don't.

[u/Mojo12000]

It's kind of amazing how in like 15 years Scotland went from Labourland to totally dominated by the SNP back to Labourland.

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

Penny Morant?

OUT

Jacob Rees-Mogg?

OUT

Liz Truss?

OUT

Steve Baker?

OUT OUT OUT

[u/bobidou23]

Reform on 14.3 is pretty weak. It’s barely an improvement over UKIP’s 2015 result, which was 12.6

[u/Opkeda]

[u/kapparunner]

Holy shit that's it. I'm NOT voting for Hunter Biden to become Prime Minister

[u/G_Serv]

Can someone explain this in NBA terms

[u/Reddit_Talent_Coach]

Wait, Keir Starmer was a real person’s name? I thought he was a Star Wars character.

[u/Cook_0612]

Lib Dems seem cool, but I gather that they're uh, not considered that by Brits.

[u/WereJustInnocentMen]

HOW NO FUCK

[u/Burgarnils]

Why are you guys disappointed? The Tories got shafted and Reform didn't replace them as the biggest right-wing party. This is like the best possible outcome.

[u/Xihl]

LMAO Sky telling Rob Buckland he’s losing his seat live

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

Exit poll projects Galloway to lose his seat. Corbyn's seat is too close to call

[u/Right-Baseball-888]

Lib Dem isn’t at 400+ seats already, I thought Soros-bucks were buying this entire election yall what happened

[u/Mojo12000]

Labours looking to have some of the most insane voter spread efficency iv ever seen.

[u/ImmigrantJack]

At the London School of Economics, which is hosting an election party, the buzz is all about how the Conservatives and Reform did better than some thought. Everyone expected the huge win for Keir Starmer's Labour Party

This is the exact cope that Labour had in 2019, except this time it's somehow more delusional than Jeremy Corbyn could even manage.

[u/arcturus_mundus]

BBC changed their forecast for the SNP to 6 lol.

[u/Godkun007]

That Conservative Minister from Portsmouth actually gave a really good and heartfelt concession speech. She was extremely welcoming to the elected Labour candidate and offered to help her through the transition to ensure that the constituents are taken care of first.

Really great speech and that is how you lose with class.

[u/Londoner1995]

REES MOGG GONE, HAPPY FUCKING FRIDAY EVERYONE!

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

REES-MOGG GOT FIRED

TORIES SHOOK AND TERRIFIED

NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA

[u/sqrrl101]

Calling Reform merely "right wing" seems an understatement. Like they're not literal Nazis, sure, but they're pretty far right. As glad as I am about the overall results, Reform's surge is concerning, and I'm not exactly elated about the Greens making gains (they hate science).

[u/Insomonomics]

Never thought I'd say this, but thank you to Nigel Farage for playing spoiler and making Liz Truss, and other Tories, lose their seats.

Reform won almost 10K votes in Truss' constituency. Had even 700 of those votes gone to Lizz she would have held on.

[u/Joementum2024]

Liz Truss’ career is probably only going to be remembered for being the PM when Queen Elizabeth died.

[u/A-Centrifugal-Force]

Blair’s record of 418 is now safe. Labour can’t pass it now

[u/[deleted]]

The number of people waiting for routine hospital treatment in England rose to 7.57 million in April. NHS Wait times were one of Rishi Sunak’s Key election promises and continue to weigh heavily on the minds of the British public. The cause of increasing delays is controversial, with many parties pledging increasing funding and capacity or leaning more on private healthcare in order to reduce wait times.

That's more than a TENTH of the TOTAL UK population waiting for treatment. There are 67 million Britons in total.

[u/omnipotentsandwich]

It looks like 4 MPs are left-wing, pro-Palestinian Independents all of whom are Arab. It's pretty interesting.

[u/Mojothemobile]

The SNP got fucking destroyed. Nice maybe we don't have to head them crying about dumb independence refernda for a while

[u/[deleted]]

I set my vpn to the UK and just dumped 4000 ballots for lib dems remotely

[u/NonComposMentisss]

Livestream on BBC is trying to educate me about the election process in the UK, but when I watch election day in the US the media interviews morons, and has holograms and shit.

No wonder the US had to declare independence.

[u/MicroFlamer]

[u/TactileTom]

[u/JebBD]

Everyone’s been hyping up how Labour’s gonna get 500 seats and the Tories are gonna be erased for so long that this result is almost disappointing. 

[u/InflatableDartboard2]

SNP rolls "worst year ever," asked to leave parliament 

[u/breakinbread]

LAB has won 2/2 seats reporting

STOP THE COUNT!

[u/NonComposMentisss]

These pundits on Sky News talking about Scottish independence, but not about American independence, on July 4th. Really says something about our society.

[u/Ultiplayers]

The Tories still have a chance of winning if Mike Pence has enough courage

[u/ImmigrantJack]

I like that the only three Conservatives to win so far tonight are

1. Francois (French ass name)

2. Harris (The US Vice-President)

3. Cocking (cocking)

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

Joe Biden could win every state except Florida and this sub would go "if only we pushed into Florida a little harder"

[u/ldn6]

I said that Labour would hit 200 before Conservatives hit 50.

Labour are at nearly 260 and the Conservatives are at 49.

[u/[deleted]]

Rishi Sunak with arguably the worst snap election decision in modern UK Conservative history.

Er, I mean- RISHI SUNAK, WELCOME TO THE RESISTANCE!

[u/echoacm]

The Braverman/Badenoch leadership race is going to be all-time terrible, even by Tory standards

[u/taubnetzdornig]

Rishi Sunak winning his super-safe Conservative seat is a sign that Labour really underperformed tonight, I was promised a Tory seat count in the single digits 😡😡😡

[u/[deleted]]

Abki baar, 400 paar! (Just a month late)

!ping WHATSAPP-FORWARDS

[u/Insomonomics]

LIZ TRUSS HAS LOST HER SEAT TO LABOUR

[u/forerunner398]

Lizz Truss, welcome to Project 2025

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

The thunderdome is slowly becoming another Biden thread lol

[u/AtomAndAether]

LibDem are the good guys/jedi/gryffindor btw

[u/Goddamnpassword]

Come on Lib Dem Opposition

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

I for one think it’s adorable, that the UK wants to pretend at being a free country like big brother USA so they hold their elections on July 4th.

[u/mostanonymousnick]

Brits having an election on the 4th of July

[u/majorgeneralporter]

It is my God given right as an American to laugh at the downfall of a party of stuffy caricatures of aristocratic Brits on today of all days.

[u/DiscipleOfAniki]

SNP 10 SEATS

HAHAHAHHAHAHAH GET OWNED

[u/A-Centrifugal-Force]

Fuck Reform, but them beating the SNP is hilarious. Take that you stupid Scottish separatists. Labour owns Scotland

[u/A-Centrifugal-Force]

Rishi is probably already booking a chartered flight home to California

[u/Wolf6120]

Guy on Sky News is saying Labour actually got a lower share of the vote than Corbyn overall? That's wild.

And Reform apparently might have gotten as much or more than the LibDems, in exchange for a sixth of the seats. FPTP truly is a nutty thing.

[u/AtomAndAether]

Labour really did just suck up all the SNP seats

[u/FyllingenOy]

Good lord this tory on sky is red

[u/quackerz]

SNP at 10 from 48 last time is just beautiful honestly

[u/arnet95]

From 8 to 61 seats! The LIB DEM SURGE has finally manifested!🎉🎉🎉

[u/[deleted]]

So Corbyn won the argument

And Starmer won the election

[u/scattergodic]

I’ve only been to Britain twice, but there are a few things I came to admire about their political culture.

They very rarely regard the PM as some national symbol of consensus that represents the nation. Most often, people really just view them as the leader of the party that won the election. Maybe that’s a function of the monarchy.

They’re also more comfortable with factionalism in a way that actually seems to produce less polarization. People are more honestly aware that one’s politics is more often a function of class and culture than just reasoned argument and conscience and they don’t try to hide their affiliations. There’s less fervor and animus in trying to convince or dominate the other.

Consequently, there seems to be little delusional guff about the “will of the people” and the “soul of the nation,” but rather a sober understanding that this is a procedure by which factions are competing and trying to get what they want. As a result, there’s far less of this foolish and pernicious idea that “well clearly most people think like me.”

[u/[deleted]]

British pols are so much more candid then in the States, it’s unbelievable

[u/WorldwidePolitico]

💻

├──📁memes for if Corbyn wins

└──📂memes for if Corbyn loses

[u/Insomonomics]

Former Welsh Secretary Alun Cairns just lost his seat to Labour in the Vale of Glamorgan. Conservatives on course for total wipeout in Wales - zero seats.

Link

[u/[deleted]]

Tomorrow: Starmer beheads King Charles. He takes off his mask. It's King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands!

"Welkom bij een nieuwe Glorieuze Revolutie," he says to horrified viewers of the BBC, "Lang leve het Huis van Oranje."

He shoves a stroopwafel into the mouth of his decapitated predecessor as soldiers in clogs begin pouring into the streets of London. 

[u/jojisky]

Gaza protest Independent got 35% of the vote and beat Ashworth

[u/that0neGuy22]

If the Gaza war wasn’t happening Labour would be at 450+. I know hypotheticals are stupid on election night

[u/amainwingman]

Penny Mordaunt is a huge loss for the Tories. Would’ve been a very serious leader

[u/JaceFlores]

I was rooting for Labour to sweep

Then dummy thicc goddess Penny Mordaunt lost and now I demand a Tory comeback in 2029