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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Corbyn the Labor Leader is speaking. He held his seat. What a nutter. “Comrades” “Manifesto of Justice”???
Commie in everything but party id. Britain dodges a massive bullet
POTUS, Donald J. Trump & British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson in a great economic deal upcoming. British Labor Party dies politically in it’s deathly wallow with Socialism, Communist Mantra, etc.
Millions of Blue Collar Brits cast their vote today for Johnson, Brexit and economic freedom!!!
USA Democrats...I suggest you take at good hard, look at yourselves in a cleat mirror....because you all are going down the exact same way the British Labor Party died politically tonight.
Labour just lost Tony Blairs old seat. LOL
A great result for at least two reasons. First, this type of British election, preceding a US Presidential election by less than a year, is often a very good predictor of the outcome of the US election—PDJT wins. Second, with the Tories in power, there’s likely to be a lot of cooperation with the investigation of the massive criminal conspiracy of the DemonShits against the Trump campaign and Presidency.
“He held his seat.”
Cue up Alanis Morrisette!
Good for him he’s still got a job, but pretty much all his co-workers want to strangle him now.
This is such an excellent result.
Praise G-d from Whom all blessing flow!
Western Civ, we ain’t dead yet.
And for any who do not know, Boris Johnson was born in NYC, like PDT (born in the same hospital as my hubby) and me. What we pride ourselves on? GETTING THINGS DONE.
That is SO COOL!
Is the Labour Party still moving?
Another smite is required.
They have given up smoting for good.
Your post is the thread Winner!
OK media: “Blame Corbyn, not Labour policies!”
LOL!
Just like here.
If Scotland decides to leave, that will bury Labor in a much deeper hole.
Is Nazi Pelousy taking note?
Schiff?
That total retard, Charles “Schmuck” Schumer, Democrat.
England is dead. Demographics rule with an immutable iron fist. Sorry.
Is Nazi Pelousy taking notes?
Schiff?
That total retard, Charles “Schmuck” Schumer, Democrat.
Kool graphic...
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