I’m watching BBC’s David Dimbleby. Good coverage.
I’ve been following this map:
Turning into a tight race.
May with 221 seats
Corbyn with 219 seats
Very different results tonight had Boris Johnson — and not some milquetoast/linguini-spine May —been heading the conservative party ticket.
Perhaps best outcome of all.
Maybe Boris Johnson becomes PM.
If they want Corbyn the socialist, they get Corbyn the socialist. My understanding is the establishment backed May - which is the kiss of death. Honestly, when I first heard he was close to her in the polls a few weeks ago, I wasn’t surprised. The fact that he might be PM, even after the terror, doesn’t surprise me either for the reasons that he’s anti-establishment and Europe keeps going left.
If this keeps up there will be just several nations that survive in Eastern Europe. The rest of the continent will be lost.
I’ve read into it and as much as I’d like the Conservatives to win, it does appear May has failed per security of her homeland, what was she? Homeland Security Minister or something like that. I’m sorry, sounds like she and Corbyn too, have been weak in that area.
Tories need 312 to keep a Conservative PM because DUP has ten and Sinn Fein 7.
They’re at 292 (-13 so far).
They can go as low as -18.
Any lower and Labor gets the PM.
I know the Tories still got the most seats, but this reminds me too much of how the Spaniards voted for the socialists after the Madrid train bombing. The Spaniards decided to surrender in the face of being attacked, and they got full amnesty for illegals (including many radicals) in return.
Too many Europeans think surrender and appeasement is the way to go to stop terrorism, when that just makes it more likely. I just wish May’s position in regard to Brexit wasn’t hampered, as it will be now. At any rate, she is still better than Corbyn in regard to terrorism and wide open borders.