Posted on 07/04/2024 4:11:11 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage will be the MP for Clacton-on-Sea, the exit poll suggests. It is Mr Farage’s eighth attempt to become an MP having failed on each previous attempt.
The exit poll predicts Reform UK have a likelihood of 99 per cent-plus to gain the seat in Essex.
It comes as the exit poll suggests the Labour Party will sweep to power with a 410 seat election victory and a majority of 170, with Tory big beats including Jeremy Hunt, Grant Shapps and Penny Mordaunt set to lose their seats.
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What about George Galloway?
Farage is strong with the young which is a good sign. Labour’s victory may simply be a rejection of the do-nothing Conservatives/CINOs.
Rochdale is too close to call. Galloway has a slight lead over Labour at present.
What I find interesting is that the Labor Party is winning.
And that the Nigel Farage’s Reform Party is coming in second place.
While the Conservative Party is coming in third place.
Farage won? Didn’t know he was personally running.
Do they too have a 3am ballot dump?
I’m pretty sure Galloway will take it. Starmer really p-ed off the Bangladeshi community who are numerous there by using them as an example of people who could be deported.
Nah, the UK electoral system is more reliable than the US one. Old fashioned paper ballots and a strict chain of custody from the polling stations to the counting rooms. Postal votes are a weaker spot but they usually aren’t numerous enough to swing the vote.
Labour is projected to win 410 seats. They won’t have to listen to anybody. Tories 131, Liberals 61, Reform 13 ‘other’ 35.
After 15 years they were due for a swing—and the Tories have been even more feckless than usual. Blair had been swept in on a bigger wave, apparently, than Starmer.
I believe Labour is expected to grant a big amnesty for illegals, which of course will also attract more. So Nigel will do what he can to get his Reform party position for another wave by the next election up to five years out.
Not only amnesty... this huge victory is a dog whistle to all those boats across the channel. It was already bad under the feckless Tories... it will now become a flood. The Anglo-Saxon dominance of the island will be over.
Farage also sees it as a long play.
OK, thanks.
Yes, that’s what I meant.
Yes.. I essentially said the same thing as you... just wanted to emphasize there are hundreds of thousands of these people in Calais just waiting for the green light to cross over.
A few weeks ago there were reports that Reform was “surging”. Now surprise surprise, Labor wins.
There was never an expectation that Reform was surging anywhere near total victory.
If the population's general movement is largely to the right with its anti-illegal immigrant, anti-socialist, anti-recession, anti-overregulation and anti-inflation components, then WHY would Labor be in ascendancy.
Seems to me a conservative of yore would, today, be voting either for a conservative OR a Reform candidate.
Instead, it looks as if they just all up and voted Labor.
I just don't get it.
How can you be ambivalent about communism or conservatism?
How can you vote Tory one election then vote Labor the next, which is what appears to have happened as many former conservative voters went with Labor.
Labour was always going to win. Farage has been saying that the election was over. His task, according to him, is to establish Reform as the true opposition party.
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