Thread 55: Sunak gives up

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New election thread.

With PTSD, in many cases, I'm certain.

And plenty of victims of austerity didn't survive.

Gosh.
King Charles doesn't look well...

Ha!
I'd find room....:)

I can't find VT of my constituency result...

I think it's great

There is something odd about that photo, tilting left a bit.

I agree with whoever said the coverage was poor,

Not just me getting old then.😀

BBC was just weird. So many boxes on screen with so little information. And the almost permanent nannycam pictures on the right were a bit of a waste of screen estate. I guess they had to find a way to shrink Laura Ks grimace.

Vote share is interesting - if you add up Labour, Green, Lib Dem, SNP vs Conservative and Reform, it's clear there is a difference in vote share

I agree. Now he has to get on with it for the good of the country.

Any NI MNetters summarise what this all means for Northern Ireland ?

Looks like the Express in keen on proportional representation

How under proportional representation Nigel Farage's Reform UK would have won 93 seats | Politics | News | Express.co.uk

Funny how it's not ok when the Conservatives win

I’m quite emotional watching this. I keep thinking of Gordon Brown walking out of Downing Street with Sarah and his children.

My DF was always totally opposed to PR because it encourages extremists. I can sort of see why.

Yes, I’m very relieved was beginning to think I’d never see another Labour government in my lifetime.

Well, Nige, me old grifter. You now have the job of persuading a party with a majority of over 150 won with the current system, that the current system "isn't working".

See you in 2029.

We did have a referendum on PR.
Maybe people have changed their mind, given what's happened

/irony/

Not a big fan of excluding people for the "wrong" views. That's almost how we ended up with the Reform situation

More of a problem is done wrong PR leads to all sorts of dodgy deals hat are done in darkness. I give you the 2017-2019 UK parliament, Tories propped up with a totally opaque deal with the DUP that no one could challenge. In fact that is the poster child for "no PR".

Ooooh. Exciting

I know a new MP from my previous life!!!

I note one of Farage's first tweets about his new job is focused on drinking buddies.

Well done, people of Clacton. You deserve all you get.

Technically it wasn't PR.

And referenda should be explicitly banned by whatever means our constitution can do it. Same way we banned Germany from having them after the war.

I like it too. But then I’m that weird hybrid - a socialist/monarchist.

if Rishi has said he's standing down will he form an opposition cabinet? or will that wait?

I predict a rash of threads on how we need PR. One has started already.

I'm not crying! I'm crying happy tears 😀

God - I'm feeling very emotional watching him go into no 10.