Posted on 12/12/2019 7:21:06 PM PST by SeekAndFind
The Tories have taken a string of former Labour strongholds, as an exit poll suggests they are set to win the election with a comfortable majority.
Labour have lost seats in the north of England and Wales in areas that voted Leave in the 2016 EU referendum.
The results point to the BBC/ITV/Sky exit poll suggesting a Tory majority of 86 as being broadly accurate, although most seats have yet to declare.
Labour are set to win 71 fewer seats than in 2017, the exit poll suggests.
The Scottish National Party have made their first gains of the night, taking Rutherglen and Hamilton West from Labour and Angus from the Conservatives.
Some constituencies, such as Darlington or Workington, in the north of England, will have a Conservative MP for the first time in decades - or in the case of Bishop Auckland and Blyth Valley - for the first time since the seat was created.
But Labour took Putney, in south-west London, from the Tories.
The exit poll taken at 144 polling stations, with 22,790 interviews. suggests the Tories will get 368 MPs - 50 more than at the 2017 election - when all the results have been counted.
Labour would get 191, the SNP 55, the Lib Dems 13, Plaid Cymru three, the Greens one, the Brexit Party none and the SNP 55.
It would be the biggest Conservative victory since 1987 and Labour's worst result since 1935, the poll suggests.
The pound surged against the dollar after the exit poll figures were announced as polls closed at 22:00 GMT, with sterling gaining 3% to $1.35 - its highest level since May last year.
With more than 150 results declared, the average increase in the Conservative vote was 2%, one point above what was expected by the exit poll.
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Send the illegal aliens to Scotland (which will gladly accept them). Allow no new immigration from the third world.
Scotland exits.
Problem solved.
(Now whether the conservatives are willing to do that—that is another question.)
And, just for kicks, we'll tell them we'll give them two "quid fo' mo'", (for more tea, like a "spot of tea", or something). :-)
(Clean up MI6!)
Demographics? A problem easily solved in two generations. And as of right this second I think it will be. Ask me another time I might saw we are doomed.
If Theressa May were still PM, the Tories would have lost...
This is the last gasp. If you want to know what England is going to look like in 30 years go to the primary schools. That is the face of England in 2050.
Official - Conservative victory. A majority of seats now declared for the Conservative party.
No it’s not. Folks like priti Patel are very English culturally
The UK has few illegal immigrants. The leave vote was against white immigrants from the EU
While I hope Scotland gets its freedom, remember that the full name of the Tory party is the Conservative and unionist party
lol
Thank God she is gone
May was the worst PM ever.
What you heard last night was the sound of the British swamp being flushed.
So many turds in their swamp, like ours, that it will require multiple flushes and plunging.
39 votes over that needed for a majority now. Looks like all 650 seats have been decided at this point.
Just an aside:
“ Labour are set to win 71 fewer seats than in 2017...”
BBC’s leftist way of saying, “Labour are set to lose 71 seats...”
BIG BAD BO TAKES NO PRISONERS!
Labour held that seat since the 1930s
Corbyn: Anti Semitic commie b’stard. Johnson: potential for be Trump of the East
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