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UK General Election Live Thread (December 12, 2019)
New York Times ^ | 12/12/2019 | N/A

Posted on 12/12/2019 2:18:28 AM PST by goldstategop

Live Updates: U.K. Votes in General Election

Britain’s voters head to the polls to choose their next government on Thursday in a deeply divided moment for the country that has left the outcome unpredictable.

RIGHT NOW

Voting has begun in the British general election, the second since the country’s landmark Brexit referendum.

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To: naturalman1975

It was a good night for them, but I do hope the Tories will do Brexit and then it truly will be done.

I hope and pray for a good result for us next year too.


321 posted on 12/12/2019 9:07:46 PM PST by Vaden (First they came for the Confederates... Next they came for Washington... Then they came...)
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To: MplsSteve

That’s why there will be calls for Sadiq Khan to become Labour Leader.


322 posted on 12/12/2019 9:08:12 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: naturalman1975

Tories forecast to now win 364 seats.


323 posted on 12/12/2019 9:11:16 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: cgbg

Bolsover flipped Blue with a swing of 11%!


324 posted on 12/12/2019 9:18:09 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: naturalman1975

Notched down one for the Tories at 363 but still a hefty majority.

Biggest loser of the night is the SNP that failed to break 50 seats in Scotland.

Brexit is on a roll now!!!


325 posted on 12/12/2019 9:22:09 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: dfwgator

Biggest Tory majority since 1987.


326 posted on 12/12/2019 9:23:11 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Vaden

Tories won 45% of the popular vote. They haven’t done this well since 1970.


327 posted on 12/12/2019 9:30:36 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: goldstategop
Tories won 45% of the popular vote. They haven’t done this well since 1970.

Unfortunately, that was the year the Tories kicked Enoch Powell to the curb, and became "Labour Lite".

328 posted on 12/12/2019 9:31:55 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: MNJohnnie
Your crow is served....


329 posted on 12/12/2019 9:32:02 PM PST by xp38
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The Tories won 6 Scottish seats.

SNP +13 with 3 seats left to call.


330 posted on 12/12/2019 9:34:15 PM PST by Reaganez
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The Tories won 6 Scottish seats.

SNP +13 with 3 seats left to call.


331 posted on 12/12/2019 9:34:15 PM PST by Reaganez
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To: goldstategop

It’s looking like about 30,000,000 will have voted when the night is over. That’s a lot of voters in a nation with a total population of about 65,000,000. Especially when you remember that about 1/3 of that total is children under voting age, plus certain percentages incapacitated, imprisoned, or ineligible.


332 posted on 12/12/2019 9:45:04 PM PST by Vaden (First they came for the Confederates... Next they came for Washington... Then they came...)
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To: goldstategop

364 to 370. That coupled with the destruction of the opposition gives them free reign


333 posted on 12/12/2019 10:01:30 PM PST by Cronos (Re-elect President Trump 2020!)
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To: MplsSteve

London is completely a different world from say rural Worcestershire


334 posted on 12/12/2019 10:02:27 PM PST by Cronos (Re-elect President Trump 2020!)
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To: Vaden

CSPAN2 starts the new day with farce—0% Klobachar.....

Good night, all.


335 posted on 12/12/2019 10:02:41 PM PST by cgbg (The Democratic Party is morphing into the Donner Party)
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To: Reaganez

Latest figure nets the Tories with two seats giving them 365 and a majority of 66.

Labour’s showing is worse than that secured by Michael Foot in 1983.

Tories hold the overwhelming majority of seats in England.

Everyone told Boris Johnson it couldn’t be done and he proved the naysayers wrong.

What a magnificent and absolutely astonishing victory!


336 posted on 12/12/2019 10:05:18 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: goldstategop

Plus 6 for Tories in Wales too.


337 posted on 12/12/2019 10:13:04 PM PST by Reaganez
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
...in a deeply divided moment for the country that has left the outcome unpredictable.
By "deeply divided" the Slimes means, we're rooting for the anti-semitic socialist scion of the USSR. Boris has had a big lead in the polls for weeks. Thanks goldstategop.

338 posted on 12/12/2019 10:29:30 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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> Labour, which has lost seats across the North, Midlands and Wales in places which backed Brexit in 2016, is facing its worst defeat since 1935.


339 posted on 12/12/2019 10:33:15 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Cronos

Final looks like365


340 posted on 12/12/2019 11:14:03 PM PST by BigEdLB (BigEdLB, Russian BOT, At your service)
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