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Fuck are exit polls always right?

474 replies

notmuchtooffer · 12/12/2019 22:03

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Tinks15 · 12/12/2019 22:35

Oh I do hope so! Grin

blue25 · 12/12/2019 22:35

Fingers crossed. As long as Corbyn doesn’t get in, I’m happy.

stayfit · 12/12/2019 22:36

My area is strongly Jewish and I am not surprised at all. (I am not)
Usually a labour voter but I can't bring myself to vote JC.

Breathlessness · 12/12/2019 22:36

McDonnell spoke out about this before the election. He wants to hang on to ensure whoever follows Corbyn comes from the same, hard left stance.

I’m waiting to see who all the Momentum activists blame for this catastrophe. It can’t be JC ‘s fault Halo. Maybe Laura Kuenssberg in league with the weather and the Illuminati?

PinkCrayon · 12/12/2019 22:36

Absolutely gutted

rhubarbcrumbles · 12/12/2019 22:37

All I can say is that I am glad I can be on a plane by the end of the year/early next year.

DappledThings · 12/12/2019 22:37

Ok so let's all become selfish greedy fuckwits. It'll be the last time I give a fig about anyone other than my family and friends. The rest of you.., - well, I'll play by these new rules of me first, with lies, prejudice and separatism all being ok, seeing as that's what the UK has seemingly endorsed.

This is what I would try to.articulate if I had the anger in me. Right now I'm just too sad.

wellthatwasthat · 12/12/2019 22:37

Was anyone on here asked? I've been voting in general elections for nearly 40 years and I've never once been asked.

Do they collar people on the way out of the polling station, or what?

Bluntness100 · 12/12/2019 22:37

I think people need to think that maybe this was not a vote for Boris and the Torres as such, it was the british public voting against Corbyn, McDonnell,socialism, momentum and what the Labour Party has become.

Justanotherlurker · 12/12/2019 22:38

Turkeys voting for Xmas

Calling them thick has resulted in this outcome, you can double down if you want, but it highlights how out of touch you are more than anything else, maybe it is you are actually out of touch and living in a bubble?

Xenia · 12/12/2019 22:38

I am absolutely delighted (although waiting for tomorrow to be sure). It is only the Tories who can properly look after the less well off because they manage the country properly. The left have been walking around with their heads in the sand not understanding that the British people are moderate and sensible and would never want the radical socialism and destruction of business on which this country and indeed benefits claimants depend.

Put this on and feel cheerful because we are a sensible nation who reject the extreme left and can now go on and thrive knowing the best party probably won......

GrouchoMrx · 12/12/2019 22:38

When the Great British Public tell you who they are, believe them!

Anjo2011 · 12/12/2019 22:38

The real villain is David Cameron, threw his toys out of the pram when he didn’t get what he wanted, jumped ship and skipped off into the sunset. He dropped a shit bomb and left us all up shit creek without a paddle. He got off far to lightly

NickelADimeCandy · 12/12/2019 22:38

Gerald Kaufman described the 1983 Labour party manifesto as "the longest suicide note in history"

The 2019 Labour party manifesto is an even longer one.

TurquoiseDress · 12/12/2019 22:38

Oh fuckity fuck

Thestinkycheeseman · 12/12/2019 22:38

I'm pleased with this result. I really hope it's correct

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PearTreeParty · 12/12/2019 22:39

I suppose it comes down to relative degrees of fear this time.

There was no good option - Torres and Labour both worried me for different reasons and a vote for anyone else is a waste. It looks like the nation found BJ slightly less frightening than Corbyn.

That's all I can think of.

If only the other Milliband had won back then I really feel that David losing to Ed was a pivotal moment and the start of the decline of what could have been a proper challenge to the Tories.

The only good thing now has to be a new and more viable Labour leader. Too late this time though.

NickelADimeCandy · 12/12/2019 22:39

I think people need to think that maybe this was not a vote for Boris and the Torres as such, it was the british public voting against Corbyn, McDonnell,socialism, momentum and what the Labour Party has become

That should be shouted from the rooftops.

Shantotto · 12/12/2019 22:40

When have labour ever actually really ‘bankrupted the country’ fucking hell.

thenightsky · 12/12/2019 22:40

The real villain is David Cameron

I'd agree with this 100%

theduchessstill · 12/12/2019 22:40

All those people calling Tory voters thick, selfish and racist etc delivered the final nail in the coffin I believe. I spoke to someone today who was torn for ages and then decided on Labour. He said this morning after listening to the labour venom all week they had actually changed his mind.

So he voted for someone racist, misogynistic and a proven liar, who has a completely different Brexit policy from the one he had decided to support because of some OTT social media posts? Bollocks.

Quartz2208 · 12/12/2019 22:40

Jeremy Corbyn was unelectable hopefully this will make the labour party realise that the hard left is not the way to go

Lib Dem shot themselves (IMO) in the foot with their gender stance.

Green Party - people dont want to face up to it

I am by no means a tory voter but all options are just rubbish

larrygrylls · 12/12/2019 22:41

Shan,

In the 70s, when the IMF bailed us out...

SheOfManyNames · 12/12/2019 22:41

There are a lot of variables. We don't know turnout yet, or if the Youth Surge thing was true.
The first few places to declare will tell you more.