This needs to be looked at from a left perspective- how do you tackle the media machine behind the two biggest papers in the country, one of which (in a truly Machiavellian sense) gets the poorest people to vote AGAINST their own interests. The echo chambers and meme culture aren't producing results if tonight is anything to go by.
UK General Election - 12th December 2019 | Con 365, Lab 203, LD 11, SNP 48, Other 23 - Tory Majority of 80
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Blyth valley - wow!
Brexit Party doing its job in Blyth Valley
Tory’s winning Blyth. What a crazy fecking world we like in now.
Brexit party have cost Tories their first seat.
Labour will get the majority of the early votes.
Greens and Lib Dem voters in Blyth need to have a long hard look at themselves
Wow blythe valley. Theres the election result in a nutshell.
Yep. Ridiculous.
The valleys voting in Tories.
Tories taking blyth valley is fecking disgusting
Most Labour MPs and voters support remain. Maybe they would have picked up a few more seats in the North if they'd backed leaving but the reason those seats have gone to the Tories is the same reason that Brexit happened, because the country has lurched to the right in favour of populism and anti-immigration.
Labour supporting that not only would have disenfranchised most of their voters but would have also come across as completely insincere and a fudge (which in fairness their final policy also was) given its clearly not what the members or the MPs in the party want. Good luck to the Labour voters who flipped to the Tories today, I hope it works out for them, but I suspect that Brexit and 5 more years, at least, of a Tory government is going to completely feck those very people over.
Where's Blyth Valley?
Labour and SNP voters have evolved a point where we can build our own computers and phones to surf the magical aura called the Internetwork. Tory voters live under bridges and eat rocks so they only get their information about the outside world from travelling merchants who steal their shoes on their journeys.
Yep definitely Brexit .People were angry and expected to have got out ages ago. Not sure that will change under Boris , but they thought so.
Think it's time to turn off after Blyth
I used to work in Birmingham and lived there for 25 years. Doesn't shock me in the slightest.
-edit- not watching the results, thought that was about birmingham blyth.
And the Conservatives will feck the stupid constituents of Blythe over. Feck em. This country deserves everything they get.
Labour loses Blythe with -15% swing all going to Tory or Brexit party!! 8000 majority to losing seat by 700.
WOW!!! I think that will be the microcosm of this election.
WOW!!! I think that will be the microcosm of this election.
South Wales
Laura frothing over Boris
GET BREXIT DONE
First past the post sucks balls.
Honestly my social media timelines for the last month have been packed with Labour voters mouthing off about how bad the Tories are.
Yet I know plenty of Tory voters and I didn’t see a single post from any of them tearing in to Labour.
Too many people on social media think because they go on a massive rant someone will suddenly change colours on Election Day.
Social media today is an absolute train wreck.
You'd expect it to damage the conservatives, but it hasn't touched them so far
It's in the North East of England mate.
Yup
Brexit party didn't run in Tory seats
Keir Starmer is probably the Labour leader they need right now but not sure if he will be.
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and an icepick for Corbyn....not literally of course.
What about on here then?
I know it's very small sample size but the poll here is so wildly different to what happening it seems and no one's manipulating things on this site.
Keep an eye on Peter Kyle.
well then, you deserve to be in opposition with fewer and fewer seats at every future election, Enjoy!
So incredibly bitter.
Who was that Beeb bloke Peter someone who used to do the election night graphics?
Peter Snow
Grazing the cnut hairs of Scotland
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This is true. It has been pretty much one way traffic in terms of the ranting and anger, not that I blame people for being angry and ranting in the face of this government.
But how people have taken that as a labour chance, or still don't get how things are tailored for our eyes, is beyond me.
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