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UK General Election Live Thread (December 12, 2019)
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| 12/12/2019
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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.
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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...)
To: MplsSteve
That’s why there will be calls for Sadiq Khan to become Labour Leader.
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posted on
12/12/2019 9:08:12 PM PST
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: naturalman1975
Tories forecast to now win 364 seats.
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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)
To: cgbg
Bolsover flipped Blue with a swing of 11%!
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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)
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!!!
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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)
To: dfwgator
Biggest Tory majority since 1987.
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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)
To: Vaden
Tories won 45% of the popular vote. They haven’t done this well since 1970.
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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)
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".
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posted on
12/12/2019 9:31:55 PM PST
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: MNJohnnie
Your crow is served....
329
posted on
12/12/2019 9:32:02 PM PST
by
xp38
The Tories won 6 Scottish seats.
SNP +13 with 3 seats left to call.
The Tories won 6 Scottish seats.
SNP +13 with 3 seats left to call.
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.
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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...)
To: goldstategop
364 to 370. That coupled with the destruction of the opposition gives them free reign
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posted on
12/12/2019 10:01:30 PM PST
by
Cronos
(Re-elect President Trump 2020!)
To: MplsSteve
London is completely a different world from say rural Worcestershire
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posted on
12/12/2019 10:02:27 PM PST
by
Cronos
(Re-elect President Trump 2020!)
To: Vaden
CSPAN2 starts the new day with farce—0% Klobachar.....
Good night, all.
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posted on
12/12/2019 10:02:41 PM PST
by
cgbg
(The Democratic Party is morphing into the Donner Party)
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!
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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)
To: goldstategop
Plus 6 for Tories in Wales too.
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.
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posted on
12/12/2019 10:29:30 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
> 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.
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posted on
12/12/2019 10:33:15 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: Cronos
340
posted on
12/12/2019 11:14:03 PM PST
by
BigEdLB
(BigEdLB, Russian BOT, At your service)
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