Westministenders: Strong and Stable Theresa Date with Destiny

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Its just before 2.00am.

So far its the YouGov model all the way. Still a long way to go but, the Cons are not getting the top of their target list and Labour are doing very well in seats they just 'shouldn't be'.

Corbyn is now favourite to take the poison chalice of Brexit, but they may not be the largest party yet.

This is looking right now like 1974 not 1983.

May's potted regardless. I look forward to her resignation speech. Its still entirely possible that our next government is a Tory Minority under another leader.

The LDs are having a rough night so far. They are loosing deposits all over the place as they are squeezed out. But they still might hold the balance of power yet. Though they are pledged not to go into coalition.

Another election in the autumn? Brexit delayed and going soft and squishy?

George Osbourne -Ruth Davidson is probably the most influential Tory politician in the choice of leader having delivered Tory seats in Scotland, and taken them against the tide, though not a contender herself

Balls on ITV and Campbell on BBC both made the point that whoever is leader needs to be able to deliver consensus politics, which May was temperamentally incapable of. Are we looking at a Tory remainer, which means not Boris......

Laura K
Blame game started, Tory sources saying Crosby's team didn't understand May, just thought 'coalition of chaos' would work

Dicks.

Lesson one about political campaigns I learn at uni. Public don't like negative campaigns. You should know that from last year when the mood was about looking for a news direction and hope.

Drop the dead cat didn't work.

Can we dispense with from the future in election campaigns. Bet Germany don't have dead cat shit.

Goldsmith looking quietly pleased I think

I'd say Rudd for pm. But for fact home office and THAT speech.

First action of new pm should be unilateral rights of EU citizens. No fucking about anymore.

Goldsmith thinks he has it in the bag now

Can the BBC talk about both leaving the EU and Treeza in the past tense? Although maybe she could engage Cameron as a new Chief of staff, and they could both try to clear up the mess?

Or our new PM (who are the candidates?) could just say we are going to focus on the NHS, education and sorting ourselves out, meanwhile pretty please can we rescind our Article 50 notification and say sorry to our nice neighbours?

Then the new PM can placate (some) of the country with a speech about how the time may come to leave the EU one day, perhaps when others do,but now just isn't the time.

Too soon for Rudd, I think.

But who? Genuinely can't think of an obvious replacement for TM

Now officially a hung Parliament

Jess Phillips
I'm bored of people saying this was about Brexit. I had to bring it up on the doorstep no one ever mentioned it.

V true. Brexit is the fantasy of Farage and his far right fan club. Normal people who voted for it, largely don't know what the fuck it entails. As we have discovered.

They want their £350 million bus.

Nick Hill and Fiona Cunningham must be dusting off their CVs right now - surely even if TM stays on they can't?

Faisal Islam
The extraordinary thing is that the Conservatives are losing seats where Labour didnt even try. In England. In Leave majority areas.

Nick and Fiona probably already have been issued with their p45s by now.

This was about the NHS and education as much as anything. The leaking of the Labour manifesto was the moment I felt it change. Corbyn did himself no harm on The One show either.

Here's irony.

Whole campaign has been it's a choice between May and Corbyn as to who will lead Brexit talks.

Brexit talks up indefinite shit creek and neither likely to be PM.

So, when can we revoke Articke 50...

Yes put Article 50 in the 'too difficult' box.

What we need now for stability is for this lot to stop their party shit over things for a while and just do the best thing for the country. Do you think we can trust the squabbling children to manage that?

Right, 1am here, I'm off to bed, hope it's all be sorted out when I get up....

I knew I'd be crying this morning but I didn't expect it to be with happiness!

Yes! Nicola Blackwood out!! So sad for Cleggy but well done to LDs

Hasn't Farage crawled out of the woodwork saying we need moar campaigning for Brexit blah blah.

NOW you want the People to Re-Speak you worm??

What happened to Only Voting Once in a Lifetime, and how despicable the EU were for "making people vote again until they give the right answer"?

Umm, no Red. They'll be too busy stabbing one another and passing the poison chalice to think about the country.

They're all trotting out their tired nonsense.

Nobody's mentioned engaging with the disenfranchised yet. Idiots.

I think this is the perfect outcome. I would have liked a labour majority if it was still centre-left, but not as it is.

What happens if conservatives go into coalition with DUP? Are we still looking at hard Brexit? Is the modification of Brexit and remaining in the single market possible? Can I dream?

Newcastle under Lyme. Labour. By 30 votes.