Westminstenders: Election Special 3

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She can take the odious Priti Patel with her too.

Not caught up yet. Still in shock and feeling shit.

A couple of local comfortably labour seats needed a recount.

When things haven't gone the way I hoped in previous elections it has not been so bad. Nothing drastic has changed. Not this time. Scared.

Or Ed Balls....

pmk.

Yeah Jess Phillip's is not Northern.

Shes from an area thats really truly forgotten about.

And she probably won't stand a chance as shes not Northern

The podium is out in Downing Street in case anybody can bear to watch 🙈

The discussion is all around why their traditional vote deserted them, especially when they will bear the brunt of further austerity, cuts, gig economy etc.

You are so right on this. I remember going to a hustings in 1992, with Michael Foot speaking, and he went on and on and on about Labour's landslide victory in 1992. I was with a Labour voting friend, and I turned to her and remarked that my children would be old enough to vote in the next election and they really didn't want to hear about what happened in 1945, any more than I, casting my first vote in 1970, wanted to hear about great things which happened in 1925.

Labour then did get a massive landslide in 1997, but it wasn't by going over old 1945 ground - it was a fresh appeal to a new electorate.

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I like Jess Phillips as an MP.

I'm popping to the shops for much needed essentials.

I just get cross with all the North / South divide.

It's there, I get it. But the Midlands really does get forgotten about.

I am not a Labour member but I like Lisa Nandy. She knows that Brexit will damage her constituency but at the same time she wants to respect the views of the majority there who voted Leave. She knows there is a fine line or tightrope to be balanced on, and I think has the ability to do it.

As for my constituency, Oxford West and Abingdon - the new Tory candidate parachuted in a few weeks ago, wittered on about 'I voted Remain, but want to respect the result of the Referendum'. This was not a vote winner in a strongly Remain constituency, and the electorate duly punished him.

I'm from the Midlands.

I can relate to regionalism and the culture war fragmentation of the U.K. a bit because - yes- a bit of me still rankles when people come out with stereotypes about the Midkands (or just ignore us). 😁

Fascinating.

Much love for Lisa Nandy, it seems.

I'm doing a day of therapeutic baking. There's a lot to be said for the cheering properties of the buttery smell of fresh cookies.

Parts of the Midlands, i.e North Staffs are really more northern than midlands. They look towards Manchester, not Birmingham.

I think Jess counts as Northern in the sense that she's North of Watford.

It's a reference more to being outside the London bubble of beliefs and into less metropolitan England.

And she has a very strong regional accent.

twitter.com/siennamarla/status/1205331143484198913?s=09

I didn't know of Lisa Nandy before. I like this.

My only feeble thought is to rejoin the Lab Party. It's a reasonable option, than wandering round with a hurt but quizzical look on my face.

The final results are in and the Tories gained 66 seats - so I think a bit short of the exit poll. I notice from the BBC map that London has a very solid presence in London, with a little orange corner in the south west of the capital, and a few orange seats nearby. For all that Labour has done badly the North West and still quite substantial parts of the North East are still Labour. Only six Tory seats in Scotland.

The other crumb of comfort - the Brexit party got a fat total of 0 seats.

I notice from the BBC map that London has a very solid presence in London

I had heard that about London .

Someone said yesterday at my running club that Stevenage was "northern". I was quite judgey about that but kept my counsel other than pointing out that I didn't think it was more than an hour north of London.

I can see why anyone north of Watford (Gap) gets fed up with the ignorance of those south of it.

(and Matt Hancock and his Wigan to Warrington comment (or was it Warrington to Wigan?)

I don’t think those who are worrying about having time to join the Labour party in time to vote in a leadership campaign need to worry.

JC is so arrogant and deluded he’s going nowhere for now

Unite and level up...
Signal to Scotland?
Could be a civil war over this...if Scot wants to break off from U.K.