Current Affairs The General Election

Voting Intentions

  • Labour

    Votes: 209 61.1%

  • Tories

    Votes: 30 8.8%

  • Lib Dems

    Votes: 20 5.8%

  • Brexit Gubbins

    Votes: 8 2.3%

  • Greens

    Votes: 8 2.3%

  • UKIP

    Votes: 1 0.3%

  • Change UK, if that's their current moniker

    Votes: 1 0.3%

  • SNP

    Votes: 4 1.2%

  • DUP

    Votes: 3 0.9%

  • Sinn Fein

    Votes: 9 2.6%

  • Alliance

    Votes: 4 1.2%

  • SDLP

    Votes: 2 0.6%

  • Plaid Cymru

    Votes: 4 1.2%

  • Some fringe party with a catchy name

    Votes: 7 2.0%

  • A plague on all your houses

    Votes: 32 9.4%
  • Total voters
    342
  • Poll closed .
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Genuinely feeling very depressed at this. Moved to Workington a while back and according to the exit polls we've gone from a good mp in labour's Sue Hayman to an absolute waste of space in Mark Jenkinson who has been in 4 parties in 10 years. I will be looking to come back to Merseyside as soon as I can sell the house if this fella gets in. Beeb has this seat down as a tory gain.
 
JEBUS_LIVES said:
  • Promise less, it's more credible.
  • Keep popular policies that help people and drop the left field ones.
  • Accept Brexit. The Tories have to deliver it now and all the associated mess that comes with it.
  • Stop seeing any dissenting voice as needing to be purged or hammered down.
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@Wat Tyler what exactly do you disagree with about this, since you gave me the middle finger. I'm curious because Labour are taking an absolute hammering tonight across areas that have been traditionally Labour. Heirs of communities who were decimated by Tory policy in the 80's voting to now give them a majority.

Labour sticking to current tactics isn't working.
 
Rightly or wrongly, the massively changing demographics in the UK is affecting the way people vote. I cannot see that changing anytime soon.

People can blame Corbyn all they want, but a lot of it goes back to the immigration policies of Blair and Mandelson.
 
Enough seats have declared now to confirm that the Labour vote has totally collapsed. The party of Tony Blair is now completely unrecognisable. Maybe they'll do a smidgeon better in London but this is a car crash.
 
Tubey said:
It's fairly simple - you take one position or the other.

Labour's Brexit position, as I've said several times, was actually the most sensible of the lot. But they couldn't communicate it. They should have known this for years now but Corbyn's default position is dithering and fence sitting, because quite frankly he's an awful parliamentarian.

If they had recognised that, they should have then gone full on for either accepting the result - nullifying the Tory rallying cry and making any election about domestic issues like the NHS as the actual differing points between the parties - or calling for a second referendum with no ambiguity and taking the 48%.

It would have been a tough ask regardless but not being able to communicate their position alongside having a totally unelectable leader and head team made Labour unelectable - as many have been saying now for a long time and has been borne out tonight.

Johnson abandoned the centre ground; Labour could have moved into it and hoovered up enough votes to take this into hung parliament territory at the least. They didn't.
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The Brexit message has been a disaster, the swing in the northern towns is mainly going to Farage´s boys. The balancing act to win back these places and still dominate the likes of London is going to be difficult.

Already looking to the next election, I don´t even think a hung parliament will be possible. The losses are too big.
 
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