The Result

[RedToothBrush]

Exit poll in 5 mins.

Pull up a chair.

But Illegal immigration IS controlled - it's illegal! I think you might mean legitimate asylum claims - which is perfectly legal

I am very interested to know about voter apathy ? How many said not voting and they stuck to it..be very interesting to know

Well he is a dumbass then! Labour had 202 seats at the last election and are predicted more than double that tonight!

Eurgh Wes Streeting is such a C unit. Need to switch off BBC.

Same - solidarity! 👊

What is it about these places I wonder? Lots of poverty and deprivation but there are equally deprived places on Merseyside and they always vote labour. Do the places on this list have some particular issues that push them towards reform? Lots of immigrants or particularly bad NHS?

The first declarations are in areas which are high on Reforms hit list. That should give us some clarity fairly quickly.

The days after Brexit were very scary for an awful lot of non-white people with delightful Leave voters crowing about how they were going to be deported imminently. It must have come as a horrible shock to the Leavers to discover that, on the contrary, the proportion of Commonwealth immigration actually rose.

Does anyone know a rough time when the result is officially announced and the new PM makes a statement? 5am? 9am? Tomorrow afternoon? It’s my first time, sorry.

He's not a dumbass. He just understands our electoral system. 🙄

The tory vote has split and the effect of FPTP means that this has a huge impact on seats, even if labour only get a small amount more votes than 2019.

I'm going to be interested to see how the popular vote compares to 2019, 2017 and 2015.

It's not controlled at all - the small boats are illegal immigrants. Once here they can claim asylum but up to that point they are illegal

All votes expected by 7am. But sometimes need recounts etc. which there may be many this time around

Usually by about 4/5am there’s a good idea of how it’s going to go and the losing party concedes by making a speech outside their home in their constituency.

@HansHolbein here is a very loose run down of the night

www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx8279n2dz2o

Former mining towns.

Here for this campaigns portillo moment

Lack of education, lack of critical thinking, easily swayed by social media and fake news stories. If it’s been a historically racist area it does tend to bleed down through generations and hold tight. Also thinks like lack of access to different cultures especially through things like the arts, music, travel. Can make worlds feel very small.
if places have also been historically very white and had a sharp increase in immigration it always leads to feelings of unease and distrust.

We need a more proportional system

Nope - they are asylum seekers who can arrive here any way they like - if we processed them swiftly and sent those who had no claim home - that would mean more people able to work and pay tax and less people rotting in hotels with no means of self support.

Not sure of voter turnout % but of those who did vote the split, if the exit poll is correct, is:

Labour 36%
Conservative 25%
Reform 17%
Lib Dem 9%
Greens 6%
others combined 7%

Labour has lost previous elections with a higher % share of the vote than that.

If a right of centre coalition is formed then Labour will only last 1 term.

I haven’t found them racist, misogynistic or homophobic.
Flinging round insults about people who have different political views to you is hardly democratic is it??
And my initial comment ISNT stupid because they DO know what a woman is -which is more than the precious Labour Party do, that mumsnet users seem to worship . David Lammy as Foreign Secretary makes his views on what a woman is so well. But of course HES not called misogynistic - or any other slurs - is he?

Yes exactly. What is funny?

This, 1000%. Don't just tell them they are stupid and thick, that is no way to run a society and it is exactly why brexit happened, because people felt so disenfranchised. Why have people turned to Farage and what can you do to bring them back, rather than alienate them further?

You do realise we’re an ageing population with a declining birth rate that will need immigrants to be our doctors, nurses, carers? E.g jobs no sane british person would do ?

Yes, also for white foreigners. Several German and other EU origin friends and colleagues were told to go home in the days after the Brexit referendum. Mind you the government took a similar tone so who can blame them. A colleague who's lived here since 1979, paid all taxes, had indefinite leave to remain, married to a British citizen, received a home office letter telling her she was being asked to leave. A mistake apparently.