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Westministenders: EARRRTHHHHHQQQUUUAAKKKKEEEE

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RedToothBrush · 26/05/2019 23:06

Well.

Thats a surprise!

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prettybird · 27/05/2019 01:50

GrinGrinGrin

Couldn't have happened to a nicer person Grin

prettybird · 27/05/2019 01:51

Anyway - you're supposed to have gone off to bed! Wink

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RedToothBrush · 27/05/2019 01:52

Oh and this is the rumour doing the rounds on twitter :

V significant Jeremy Corbyn “shaken” by Lib Dem’s winning Islington and blaming advisers who gave him poor advice - prevented him backing another referendum!

Thats one way of pretending it wasn’t you all along so you can frame for a uturn.

We just need a scapegoat.

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Pigachu · 27/05/2019 01:52

Serve him right Grin

BigChocFrenzy · 27/05/2019 01:52

Sack Milne !

BigChocFrenzy · 27/05/2019 01:53

Uuurgh 2:52 here
Night all

prettybird · 27/05/2019 01:53

...and himself! Grin

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RedToothBrush · 27/05/2019 01:54

I know I know.

My 4 year just kicked me out of it though. Cuddle cuddle. Kick. Spread. Kick.

And yeah...

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Basilpots · 27/05/2019 01:55

Maud Hazard may have this wrong I am fuelled by Baileys and very tired but I have compared a few things from 2014 in West Mids.

2014 there were 6 anti EU parties with a combined vote of 493;309 votes.

2019 BXP got 507,152 so he has increased this anti Eu vote by 13,843.

In an election where the Tory’s lost over 195,00 and Labour lost over 100,000. And overall turnout for the region was up, in one of the strongest Leave areas in the country. His overall percentage vote is marginally down on Ukip and even more so if you chuck in all the other smaller anti Europe parties into that total.

He can spin it however he wants he will never admit it but he will have expected a much better result in the West Mids.

Peregrina · 27/05/2019 01:55

Gratifying about milkshake face. I was supposed to have gone to bed too. I am not sure about NI seats but I think it's either a tie for Remain parties vs Brexit, or Remain have one more. Leave Labour and Tories out. Labour as fence sitters and I wonder if Tories are old time supporters who might favour remain. We won't know.

Peregrina · 27/05/2019 02:01

40.4% vote share for Remain parties to 31.6% for Brexit will do me quite nicely thanks.

Peregrina · 27/05/2019 02:05

Or another way of looking at it:
total votes for Brexit 5,244, 893. Total votes for LibDems and Greens 5,377,00. Lib Dems and Greens have it.

Peregrina · 27/05/2019 02:10

And I really must go to bed now, but this result has been achieved with the BBC talking up Farage and Brexit all the time, and saying Greens? Do we know them?

Basilpots · 27/05/2019 02:14

Correction to earlier post BXP is up on UKIP 2014 but down if you add together all the anti Eu parties in West Mids from 2015.

Thought I better put that in before I have any lurking leavers start savaging me.

It’s late.....

Hope all that makes you feel a bit better Maud

Basilpots · 27/05/2019 02:16

Anyway night Red thanks for all your hard work.

Peregrina · 27/05/2019 02:21

Nice to see Brexit come third in Brighton and Hove.

Peregrina · 27/05/2019 02:22

Labour so far are down 8, and the Tories down 15, so it was still worse for the Tories. I won't count UKIP - they have just gone over to Brexit.

prettybird · 27/05/2019 02:27

I'm disappointed that Labour looks to have come below the Conservatives in Scotland Sad. David Martin had been the longest serving UK MEP - and doesn't deserve to lose to the Conservatives Sad (and I say that as an SNP voter ShockSmile)

Dana28 · 27/05/2019 02:41

Umm but the greens are chiefly about environmental bollocks, why are you counting their votes as remain, they will ve both

dreichuplands · 27/05/2019 02:59

The greens are a strong remain party as well as being strong on environmental issues.
Overall on a remain v leave vote percentage remain seems to have done pretty well.
Not a great night to have to be out at a social event.

Basilpots · 27/05/2019 03:13

Because the Greens don’t believe in Brexit maybe ?

Tavannach · 27/05/2019 03:24

Laura Koensberg who is a closet Tory as far as I am concerned

I wouldn't call Laura K a closet Tory.

So with 99% of the vote counted

Remain parties: 40.4%
Hard Brexit parties: 34.9%
Conservatives/Labour: 23.2%

A good night for Remain.

Cailleach1 · 27/05/2019 05:07

Well. This is interesting from Eileen Paisley.

"Speaking about the partition of Ireland, she said: “If you go right back to the beginning, the dividing of Ireland, I think the Irish people all over, north, south, east and west, I think they are a great people.

“And especially when you are away from home and you meet another person, no matter what part of Ireland they come from, by their different accents, you would say that man is from the south, or that, or that person, but they are a fellow countryman of yours or woman."

“I just wonder why it had to be divided at that time and I think perhaps that was a wrong division".

www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/ireland-s-partition-perhaps-a-wrong-division-says-eileen-paisley-1.3905037

bellinisurge · 27/05/2019 05:15

Just woken up to the results - bloody hell. I'm NW England. Yes three for Brexshiters but 2 + 1 = 3 for clear Remain parties and 2 for Labour.
Surely that should temper the Shitters in our area when they look at those results. Assuming they can count Grin

missclimpson · 27/05/2019 05:25

Morning all and thanks to Red and the night shift. Best news has surely got to be Labour finally waking up to reality.

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