please empty your brain below
Looks like there's no winner in your majority sweepstake

Ian | 13.12.19 - 12:09 a.m. | #

...long way to go...that predicted majority will fall through the night...but not so far as some of us would like!

Jonalot | 13.12.19 - 12:12 a.m. | #

The final DG sweepstake result will have us on the edge of our seats all night, until the last few results declared.
Much more important.

Scrumpy | 13.12.19 - 12:36 a.m. | #

Stuff everyone. We have just voted for self harm. I shall look after myself and no one else

X | 13.12.19 - 1:40 a.m. | #

DG - you are being very diligent! Bigger conservative victory than expected - Labour has drifted too far to the left.

William | 13.12.19 - 3:27 a.m. | #

Kind of bizarre for both sides to pay so much attention to personal characteristics of the leader on the opposite side during this election. Whatever, it's truly a sad night for the Labour Party.

TommyL4 | 13.12.19 - 3:41 a.m. | #

As correct and righteous as the thought of X is, I somewhat worry that it's the very thought which drove many people to the other side. People do not like being repeatedly told that they are wrong.

Patrickov | 13.12.19 - 5:10 a.m. | #

Watched exit poll in horror.
Went to bed and could hardly sleep.
Got up before 5, hoping exit poll had got it wrong.
Ugh. Just ugh.
Corbyn - useless - has to go

IslandDweller | 13.12.19 - 6:13 a.m. | #

I can understand about not wanting a Labour majority. But wanting the Conservatives under Boris Johnson?

Very upsetting, ultimately the undeniable fact is that non Brexit and non Conservative voters are split between about five parties, but Brexit and non left/non centre voters supported just the one party, mainly.

Jonathan | 13.12.19 - 7:04 a.m. | #

Well done DG on making it through. I sadly succumbed to sleep a few times, but pretty much saw all the main points.

Robert | 13.12.19 - 7:30 a.m. | #

Although I expected a Conservative win, I never thought the majority would be that high or for people in 'northern' seats to that determined to cut their ties with the past.

We'll have Boris for 10 years now as Labour will probably lose in 2024 as well, it'll be a different country from now on, if you haven't got a European born parent, you could move to Northern Ireland, as I reckon there is a good chance of the Ireland reuniting in the foreseeable future, and you could pick up a European passport that way.

Still Anon | 13.12.19 - 8:04 a.m. | #

This isn't going to end well. Nationalism never does... They are branding themselves as "The People's Government" that should set off alarm bells at every level!

Southern Heights (Light Railway) | 13.12.19 - 8:27 a.m. | #

When the Referendum results came in I started telling people "The country is finished" I still say that, by it I mean that the United Kingdom is finished as Scotland and Northern Ireland will leave the UK.

AS for getting a European Passport again, the Republic of Ireland will still have free movement between England as that agreement preceded the the EU and as far as I know it will continue.
Live there for 5 years and apply for an Irish passport. Enjoy again the benefits of being in the EU.

If Labour had replaced Jeremy Corbyn years ago they could have won.

A very sad day for this country to have elected a person like Boris Johnston as PM.
Will he last for a full term I wonder.

John | 13.12.19 - 8:46 a.m. | #

It might not be five years of Boris. I think one of the first items on his to do list will be to abolish the Fixed Term Parliament Act.

Tim W | 13.12.19 - 8:57 a.m. | #

00:15 Obvious where it's going, went to sleep.
05:30 Woke up to find pundits saying the same thing as at 00:15.

Was it just me, or did everyone on the tube look more miserable and hung over this morning?

NickW | 13.12.19 - 9:30 a.m. | #

One good thing is that now we've got Brexit, we'll hear less about it and how evil Jeremy is. Maybe it would save us all time, in future, if we didn't have to actually vote, and government policy was decided (directly) by the owners of the newspapers... then they wouldn't need to brainwash us all with their banner headlines... Cut out the middleman - us.

Alex McKenna | 13.12.19 - 10:13 a.m. | #

A result few people expected, and many people don't like, but it means the stalemate is over and the country can move forward.

Jimbo | 13.12.19 - 10:18 a.m. | #

Move forward to what, Jimbo? Small minded isolationism and a break up of the UK? Have a nice time.

Johnny Topaz | 13.12.19 - 10:25 a.m. | #

Llifetime power only works for system-protected dictators like Putin or Xi Jinping. With London and other major cities so defiantly red, how, or more accurately whether, this trick benefits Johnson or his MP's, is an entirely different matter.

Patrickov | 13.12.19 - 10:28 a.m. | #

Now we have a serial liar as our Prime Minister I hope we are going to hold him to all the promises he has made to us during the election campaign.

X | 13.12.19 - 10:28 a.m. | #

You cannot avoid the scale of the Conservative victory. Excluding Northern Ireland, the share of the Tory vote across Britain was close to 45%, which given their vote shares in Scotland and Wales, means that they must have achieved close to half the votes cast in England. I think that is unprecedented in recent times.

dg writes: In England 47%. Last election 46%.

History shows that when political parties trend too far from the centre, they are punished. The issue is that the majority of voters do not like hard left economic policies and Labour made a catastrophic mistake in thinking that they would. Clearly Brexit made an impact but too many of my friends could not being themselves to vote for Corbyn. My brother who lives in County Durham believes Labour does not care about the working classes - only the London metropolitan elite. This has to end. The Conservative party is remarkably able to adapt itself - Labour desperately needs to do likewise quite urgently!

William | 13.12.19 - 11:02 a.m. | #

Results are very different in the different nations of the UK.

In Northern Ireland the balance shifted significantly - DUP (in favour of union with the UK but not the EU) lost two to the SDLP (the opposite), meaning the Unionist-remainers are now in the minority.
In Scotland, apart from one swap with the LDs, all the seats that changed hands went to the SNP.
In London and the south east the totals for each party are exactly the same as before, the Conservatives and Labour swapping Putney for Kensington, and the Conservatives and LDs exchanging Richmond Park and St Albans for Eastbourne and Carshalton & Wallington). But in the rest of England outside the Metropolitan bubble, there were no seats gained by any party except the Conservatives.
The same is true for Wales, and although Labour have still (just) got a majority there, there is now a clear north-south divide, with Labour having only one seat in the north.

One-nation Tory?

timbo | 13.12.19 - 11:53 a.m. | #

We won't be seeing these constituencies again.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 13.12.19 - 12:47 p.m. | #

Victory!!!, clearly you and your other readers will not agree!

The Knowledge | 13.12.19 - 12:59 p.m. | #

A sad day for democracy when lying, cheating and racism wipes the board.

We have put ourselves at the mercy of America, and will only have ourselves to blame regarding the outcome.

Cornish Cockney | 13.12.19 - 2:11 p.m. | #

A shocking result for Labour, but until the party moves back to the centre it will continue to lose.

A shock to many of the young Corbyn supporters, but the social media echo chamber gives a distorted view of the what the country actually thinks.

Mikey C | 13.12.19 - 3:02 p.m. | #

The People's Government? No historical resonances there.

The proof of the pudding will be in the eating. We shall see how much of a "one nation" unionist Mr Johnson really is. With this size of majority, we could have him as Prime Minister for 10 years.

Andrew | 13.12.19 - 3:25 p.m. | #

And still there has been no proper discussion of our most demanding problem - that of over-population.

We see one thing after another being overwhelmed by numbers - not just A & E or schools, but housing needs, roads, trains and so on ad infinitum. Cambridge, where I live, is getting near to gridlock every morning and still fools are telling us we need more people to fill job vacancies, more housing for the people to live in, more doctors to look after them and then they annot understand where the damage to the environment is coming from!

Boris has a tough job on his hands already, but there is far worse to come.

Temp | 13.12.19 - 3:31 p.m. | #

oh well.

in a fortnights time Christmas will be over. and this time next month we can look forward to the first chocolate Easter eggs on the supermarket shelves.

Grumpy Anon | 13.12.19 - 3:37 p.m. | #

Where should I emigrate to?

Caz | 13.12.19 - 4:39 p.m. | #

Britain is not overpopulated. There's plenty of space. There's not enough work ouside the southeast, but that's a different problem.
The world as a whole is overpopulated, of course. But the answer to that has been known for years. More power and more education for women and girls.

Malcolm | 13.12.19 - 4:45 p.m. | #

One small glimmer of light among the gloom. We will be seeing much less of Farage.

Malcolm | 13.12.19 - 4:48 p.m. | #

While I'm not kidding myself that it's anything other than vanishingly unlikely, we may yet end up with 5. Or perhaps remain on 5 for so long that we end up in 2. (Is that how this game works?)

martin | 13.12.19 - 5:31 p.m. | #

3 months ago Jo Swinson stated she would be the next PM.
Shows how deluded politicians are.

scrumpy | 14.12.19 - 3:05 a.m. | #











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