Be Excellent To Each Other

yeah

Sky said they'd won a second seat as well, but I can't see any proof of that

Labour broke the swingometer! Mainly through being quietly boring. Which appeals to me personally.

Michelle Donlan gone, and Jeremy Hunt about to find out his fate

Oooh.

Hunt Stays

Rishi Stays

On watching odd phrasing from Rishi in his electoral concesion speech makes it sound like he'll be spending time with me personally in the weeks, months and years to come.

Hunt mentions Ukraine in his victory speech in a somewhat moving manner removing the ability for me to hate him, the bastard.

Also should it be 'a historic' or 'an historic' because I still think the former.

I say an 'istoric

Sky say Labour has won a majority (BBC saying they still need 11 more)

Oooh. It's touch and go.

Mogg is about to find out his fate

and he's gone!

MOGGMEOFF HE'S GONE!

Good morning from Norway!
What great news to wake up to!

Yay! Labour in! Nice speech Kier, but -10 points for not taking off with a jetpack into the golden dawn at end of speech.

Bless you Kern and good morning to you. Let's meet up for drinks in the next few weks. Lots to yak about.

This is the first election I've stayed up to until dawn since the 2008 Obama one. Just remember this; bad times happen and good victories are imperfect, but so long are people are fighting for something better, there's hope.

David T Davies loses in Monmouthshire, meaning no Blue Seats in Wales

Sir John Curtice looks mildly healthier and perkier even at half five in the morning. Almost as if he drains the life-force from each losing candidate in arcane ritual.

And hurrah for Wales land of me!

Sky have said again that Adrian Ramsey has won his seat (Green co-leader)

Yup


Party % Share Change since 2019
Green 41.7% (+32.4)
Conservative 30.3% (−31.9)
Reform 15.8% (+15.
Labour 9.4% (−9.2)
Liberal Democrat 2.5% (−6.7)
Social Democratic Party 0.2% (+0.2)

Three for Greens

@##Green gain from Con
North Herefordshire

Party Candidate Votes % (pt change)
Green Ellie Chowns 21,736 43.2 (+34.4)
Con Bill Wiggin 15,842 31.5 (-31)
Reform Andy Dye 8,048 16 (-)
Lab Jon Browning 3,205 6.4 (-8.9)
Lib Dem Cat Hornsey 1,436 2.9 (-10.6)
Socdem Michael Guest 95 0.2 (-)

Also Liam Fox has gone too

Jess Phillips wins her seat by 700 votes

Boo, Conservatives win my seat by about 2000 votes

I have to go to bed now. Truss proving herself a champion irritant by not having her results announced yet. Anyway, will have a hell of a hangover.

Victoria Prentis has lost her seat

Mark Harper gone by 200 votes (reform took 8000)

Sian Berry has held Brighton (Caroline Lucas' old seat)

that's 4 MPs, which is the same as Reform at the moment

Cleverly holds on

South Shropshire is still Tory. It is gutting

Labour gain/hold here depending on how you look at things with boundary changes. Scary numbers of Reform voting racist simpletons though.

Pritti Patel stays

Liz Truss has run away, rumours she might be 3rd

Liz Truss has lost, but is 2nd

Same for us here. Labour hold for our postcode, but gain from a summary Conservative count under the new boundary changes. The win was far from decisive here, though.


Labour, Valerie Vaz
Votes 12,514
Share 33.6%
Share change -10.8

Independent, Aftab Nawaz
Votes 7,600
Share 20.4%
Share change +20.4

Reform UK, Elaine Williams
Votes 7,293
Share 19.6%
Share change +18.3

Conservative, Shannon Lloyd
Votes 6,679
Share 18.0%
Share change -31.2

Green, Sadat Hussain
Votes 2,288
Share 6.2%
Share change +4.7

Liberal Democrat, Patrick Stillman
Votes 817
Share 2.2%
Share change -0.7

So the combined Reform and Conservative vote would outweigh the Labour vote significantly. The Independent candidate coming second is an interesting one here. We got a mail shot for this guy which said on the front only these words ‘vote Aftab Nawaz Independent for Palestine’.

On the back there were 20, maybe 30 words which said only said (paraphrasing) ‘Vote Aftab Nawaz to vote for a free Palestine and to demand justice for Palestinians and a free Palestinian state’.

Which obviously, makes the candidate a single issue candidate. But what would have happened if he’d won? It’s far from being beyond the realms of imagination with the current vote split in our constituency. There was no mention of wanting to do anything for the people in the constituency, so I wonder how he’d have handled that job.

Anyway, I hate the new boundary changes and am glad our new right wing neighbours from the merger have at least significantly split the vote.

Ian Paisley has lost his (and his Father's seat before him) seat

We are still in a Conservative constituency.
Labour came a close second, but only because of the Deform candidate in third.

Liz Truss for Strictly 2024?

Bicester went yellow!

Jeremy Hunt’s acceptance speech was good. Honest, gracious, and something to be respected.

Compare that to Steve Baker who just had a hissy fit on BBC breakfast news.

Such a close thing though, which gives me hope for next time.

Kudos to those of you who stayed up, nutters

James cracknell wins silver

Bloody shattered now, and I start work in 40 minutes

I even voted Lib Dem... FFS

Nice to wake up to all this.

Shrewsbury switches to Labour, at last.

It's nice to see my Homeland return to Red

I've just had a refund off something from ebay for £2.22. I'm already richer under a Labour government!

So its nice to have a change , and very nice to not have the Tory's in charge , I'm worried that so many seats would have Labour second if you just add in Con + Reform , and that Reform basically are the 3rd party just on percentage alone (Labour 33.7% / Con 23.7 / Reform 14.3)

On a more positive note I was reading the fun that the Conservative party are now going to have since most of their rules and policies assume there are a large number of MP's and thats no longer the case.

https://bsky.app/profile/garius.bsky.so ... jtf5ggyg22

In case that doesnt link at all - their process says that to be nominated for leadership they need the support of 100 MP's , but they only have 121 :-)

The current situation in No. 10