General Election '24

[lpm]

What you've missed: looks like the exit poll was optimistic for the Tories. Certainly they won't be getting upside from the 131 target.

LD and Labour doing well.

No lols so far, but Basildon in recount is promising.

[jdc]

Barnsley's cheered me up. Never thought I'd be typing that sentence.

[lpm]

Was Hartlepool a Reform win in the exit poll?

Yes. But because it's done on the probability basis it isn't a precise miss vs the exit poll.

[El Pollo Diablo]

Full recount in Basildon & Billericay - 20 votes in it apparently.

[gosling]

Galloway loses in Rochdale

[El Pollo Diablo]

SNO lose to Labour in Kilmarnock. First Scottish seat.

[lpm]

Galloway loses in Rochdale

Yippee!

[lpm]

They just showed the Basildon chicken run idiot looking sad!

[El Pollo Diablo]

Monster Raving Loony Party wins Kingston and Surbiton. They'd been campaigning hard all over the country to win that one.

[lpm]

Monster Raving Loony Party wins Kingston and Surbiton. They'd been campaigning hard all over the country to win that one.

But are they anything more than just publicity stunts?

[El Pollo Diablo]

I found myself wondering if, for that brief moment when Bridget Philipson was the only MP in the country, she could storm Buckingham Palace and demand the army support her.


It's been a really long day.

[El Pollo Diablo]

Labour up to 50 seats. Thornberry & Rayner have both won, obvs.

[dyqik]

Monster Raving Loony Party wins Kingston and Surbiton. They'd been campaigning hard all over the country to win that one.

Given they know that the press will ignore them in favor of Nazi Nigel "1 MP" Farage, it's a sensible national press strategy.

[El Pollo Diablo]

Lol, I know. I enjoyed all the antics, and I'm pleased the Lib Dems will be more heavily represented in Parliament.

[lpm]

The BBC are still talking Reform non stop.

[lpm]

Ah, they broken away from Farage temporarily. To hear from that Starmer bloke who is also doing quite well.

[dyqik]

Second full recount in Basildon and Billericay...

[dyqik]

Ah, they broken away from Farage temporarily. To hear from that Starmer bloke who is also doing quite well.

Has he won more than one seat then?

[El Pollo Diablo]

Lit Dems have won Chelmsford apparently.

[El Pollo Diablo]

IT'S SHAPPS TIME

[dyqik]

Lit Dems have won Chelmsford apparently.

That's an excellent typo.

[jdc]

Lit Dems have won Chelmsford apparently.

Quite exciting watching them and the Tories swapping places as the results come in.

[lpm]

Grant Shapps...

GONE!!!

[El Pollo Diablo]

He GONE muerfuer

[El Pollo Diablo]

Lit Dems have won Chelmsford apparently.

That's an excellent typo.

I've been calling them the Literal Democrabs for so long now I find it hard to stop