Westministenders: Election Special 2

[RedToothBrush]

Exit poll

Con majority of 68.

65 seats regarded technically as still too close to call. But that could mean an even bigger majority.

Blyth Valley has seen a 10% swing to the cons in line with the exit poll. 1st shock of the night

[EweSurname]

Pmk

[HarveySchlumpfenburger]

PMK

[Stinkyeddie]

Pmk

[CendrillonSings]

2024 will mark 50 years since any Labour leader other than Tony Blair won a majority.

Do you think Labour will take the hint anytime soon?

[TheMustressMhor]

PMK

[OhYouBadBadKitten]

pmk.

[ChazsBrilliantAttitude]

PMK

[DeRigueurMortis]

PMK

[lonelyplanetmum]

PMK
With ..% vote reductions in the NE ranging from -7 to -18% so far.

[BirdandSparrow]

PMK. This is about Brexit. People want Brexit. It's like a death cult.

[bellinisurge]

Pmk and last person standing in the house. Apart from the cat.

[BirdandSparrow]

Cendrillion why don't you go and play in the Brexit Arms?

[TreesSandSea]

I should go to bed but I can’t stop rubbernecking. Like being on the scene of an awful accident.

[RedToothBrush]

Paul Brand @PaulBrandITV
Labour shed 15% of their vote in Blyth Valley and 16% in Sunderland South. Absolutely devastating - the North East has traditionally been the most uniformly Labour region in the United Kingdom.

[AutumnCrow]

Blyth Valley. That's it then. Seats in the south like Reading East and Portsmouth South will be Tory presumably as they only take a smaller swing? Yet they're student constituencies. Don't get it.

[OhLookHeKickedTheBall]

Thanks red

[7Days]

Pmk

[Hazardexhausted]

🌳🌳🌳

[TheMustressMhor]

Cat looking pissed off

[The80sweregreat]

It's sad but labour will regroup.
Will just take a while.

[Motheroffourdragons]

PMK.

[CendrillonSings]

@SamCoatesSky

Exit poll latest

Approximate vote share:

Conservative 46%
Labour 32%.

The Conservative share might be greater than 1970 (46.2%).
First time that the incumbent party of government has increased its national vote share at three successive general elections 2015, 2017 and 2019.

Nicely done, Boris!

[BigChocFrenzy]

It's 1987 since the Tories last won a decent majority
(Cameron's 2015 majority was tiny)

They only did it by becoming a hard right English Nationalist party, adopting Brexit and being prepared to break up of the UK and crash the economy over a cliff

What will they do for their next GE ?

[BirdandSparrow]

It's sad but labour will regroup. Will just take a while. Thing is, I heard something saying that no party has ever recovered from this much of a battering by the next election, so basically it's Labour in the wilderness for years now.

[borntobequiet]

PMK.
I hope there will be better results overnight. Is anyone really surprised at the self-harming outcomes in the NE?