2019 General Election - Match Thread

SouthWest_Addicks

Reckon Jo Swinson will lose tonight 

SELR_addicks

Turkeys voting for Christmas. 

Goodbye Scotland and N. Ireland. Had a good run. 

bobmunro

Callumcafc said:

golfaddick said:

Wow. Exit poll suggest a massive Tory majority of 86.

Ha ha ha ha

Glad you find it funny. You're alright Jack.

Spot on - I'm personally much better off with that result but I'm distraught.

Five fucking years of Johnson's shit show.

carly burn

ken_shabby said:

Good news as it may mean the end of Corbyn- but all the posters on here who rely on NHS healthcare as they get on in years are in a bit of shit now.

  Quite. So why didn't labour trash Corbyn years ago?

North Lower Neil

Crazy stuff. 

People voting for the Tories to f*** 95% of the country over for the benefit of the other 5% for 5 more years. 

bobmunro

Let's hope nobody loses their job or gets ill.

killerandflash

A massive anti Corbyn result. But the hard left have got their grips on the Labour party now and it might take years before they return to the centre.

Rothko

But the worrying things for me, despite leaving the EU, is that there one absolute truth of the British constitution, and that is if you have a big enough majority, you can do pretty much what you like, and a party with a manifesto as thin as the Tory one was, is worrying. 

Leeds_Addick

ken_shabby said:

Good news as it may mean the end of Corbyn- but all the posters on here who rely on NHS healthcare as they get on in years are in a bit of shit now.

Yep, and there's people on this thread laughing at it.

stop_shouting

love it. Absolutely love it. The country have had enough of the brexit impasse and Boris’ pitch has worked. Looking forward to the labour excuses 😂😂😂

Gravesend_Addick

If exit polls are true, I expected the Tories to win but not by that much.  That's an absolute disaster for Labour

colthe3rd

I'm shocked it is showing that big a margin but them I'm also not. Unfortunately we seem to have become a country that's been far too self centred and personally a Tory majority probably means I'm better off personally as my circumstances stand right now but I do care about people less fortunate than me and God forbid anything ever happens that I'm unable to work.

If people have become that brainwashed by the rhetoric then so be it, let's go along and see what happens but one thing I'm sure of is it'll just drive an even bigger wedge between us all. 

seth plum

So it starts with a border down the Irish sea and the UK will not have left the EU. Scotland will be entrenched yet powerless, and when the final leave structure is in place the UK will have reneged on the Good Friday Agreement as it now stands. Either way the peace process will change dramatically and it will be at high risk.
Those in need domestically are also now at high risk.
The Etonocracy are a genuine threat.

killerandflash

North Lower Neil said:

Crazy stuff. 

People voting for the Tories to f*** 95% of the country over for the benefit of the other 5% for 5 more years. 

If the Conservatives have got a majority of 80, they must have picked up votes from all over the country, and from people of all income levels. 

The Brexit voting seats they are likely to be winning are in poor areas.

Gravesend_Addick

Anyone else hoping 1 of these volunteers stacks it & spills the ballot papers all over the floor or is that just me?

se9addick

Basically an English nationalist party winning big in England and a Scottish nationalist party sweeping Scotland

golfaddick

Callumcafc said:

golfaddick said:

Wow. Exit poll suggest a massive Tory majority of 86.

Ha ha ha ha

Glad you find it funny. You're alright Jack.

I'm laughing at all the remainers who campaigned, stalled & downright wanted to cancel Brexit. Dont fuck with democracy or it will come back & bite you the arse. If we had left as planned on 23rd March I'm pretty sure that The Conservatives wouldn't have got back into power......due to austerity & everything else.

As I said.....only yourselves to blame. 

Callumcafc

Tories confident of gaining Sunderland Central... heads in hands here.

stop_shouting

Corbyn, Abbott and McDonald. Who were they kidding.

RodneyCharltonTrotta

Sad times. Donkeys led by donkeys. 

Salad

so sad, sigh

PaddyP17

Apparently, 22,000 voters were polled at 150-odd stations? If I read the figures right.

If so, that's a huge margin for error, even if you assume the (I guess) 350 safe seats weren't polled and were assumed.

I don't doubt Ipsos Mori are kosher, but this sounds like a potential overestimation.

One hopes. 

North Lower Neil

killerandflash said:

North Lower Neil said:

Crazy stuff. 

People voting for the Tories to f*** 95% of the country over for the benefit of the other 5% for 5 more years. 

If the Conservatives have got a majority of 80, they must have picked up votes from all over the country, and from people of all income levels. 

The Brexit voting seats they are likely to be winning are in poor areas.

Yep - it's a massive cliche but so true here: turkeys voting for Christmas.

seth plum

Brexit has been defeated so far by the Irish border, and ultimately the Irish border will continue to defeat Brexit.
Remainers are observers not the impediment.

Greenie Junior

Bloody hell. I’m pleased with that if it’s true.

I will be more pleased if Corbyn Abbott McDonnell etc step down and potentially others come in and we can have a proper electable opposition.

colthe3rd

Callumcafc said:

Tories confident of gaining Sunderland Central... heads in hands here.

It really is baffling, you can show these people the devastation to their local areas that Brexit will bring but it will be ignored for whatever reason. We live in an age where data and evidence is abundant but ever more so people are choosing not to believe it. What's that thing about stupidity and doing the same thing over and over?

Rothko

golfaddick said:

Callumcafc said:

golfaddick said:

Wow. Exit poll suggest a massive Tory majority of 86.

Ha ha ha ha

Glad you find it funny. You're alright Jack.

I'm laughing at all the remainers who campaigned, stalled & downright wanted to cancel Brexit. Dont fuck with democracy or it will come back & bite you the arse. If we had left as planned on 23rd March I'm pretty sure that The Conservatives wouldn't have got back into power......due to austerity & everything else.

As I said.....only yourselves to blame. 

No its been defeated by its own contradictions, and will continue to be so

Leeds_Addick

PaddyP17 said:

Apparently, 22,000 voters were polled at 150-odd stations? If I read the figures right.

If so, that's a huge margin for error, even if you assume the (I guess) 350 safe seats weren't polled and were assumed.

I don't doubt Ipsos Mori are kosher, but this sounds like a potential overestimation.

One hopes. 

I wish you were right but

https://twitter.com/Nate_Cohn/status/1205247530113650688

North Lower Neil

Greenie Junior said:

Bloody hell. I’m pleased with that if it’s true.

I will be more pleased if Corbyn Abbott McDonnell etc step down and potentially others come in and we can have a proper electable opposition.

That is the one silver lining in 5 years of dark, dark clouds. 

carly burn

colthe3rd said:

Callumcafc said:

Tories confident of gaining Sunderland Central... heads in hands here.

It really is baffling, you can show these people the devastation to their local areas that Brexit will bring but it will be ignored for whatever reason. We live in an age where data and evidence is abundant but ever more so people are choosing not to believe it. What's that thing about stupidity and doing the same thing over and over?

  It's all about personalities and gimmick slogans these days. Brexit showed us that.

Labour never heeded the lesson.