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[smjjames]

Labour wins Glasgow Northeast by 0.8%. GLASGOW.

Anybody seen Owlbread, or is he busy playing a funeral dirge on his bagpipes?


EDIT: Ipswitch? More like Flipswitch, amirite? (flips Tor to Lab).

.....I'm sorry.

I haven't seen Owlbread around in like, forever.

SNP bleedout continuing, Dunbartonshire East went Lib Dem.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

For some fun, have a look at Cities of London and Westminster to see the 59 people who voted for Ankit Love The Maharaja of Kashmir, founder and leader of the One Love Party. They claim to be, and I quote, "techno-progressive".

Tories are embarrassed and filthy due to the loss of Bath (+8) to the LibDems, the second such humiliation of the night.

[RedKing]

SNP at -11 now. Lost Midlothian to Labour. Ayr, Carrick & Cumnock to Tories.

All total so far, the Tories have picked up 6 from SNP, which almost negates their losses to Labour further south.

[smjjames]

All of a sudden, BBC replaces Lib Dem with Sinn Fein on their readout. Only thing though, I thought they chose not to represent in Westminister, which is their policy for some reason? Saw that in a tweet somewhere.

[RedKing]

Corbyn retains his own seat with a 60.5% vote.

Labour takes Kirkcaldy from SNP, Bedford from the Conservatives.

Tories at -5, Labour at +18. And we're a little over halfway done.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

All of a sudden, BBC replaces Lib Dem with Sinn Fein on their readout. Only thing though, I thought they chose not to represent in Westminister, which is their policy for some reason? Saw that in a tweet somewhere.

Yes, Sinn Finn practices abstentionism. They refuse to take their seats because they are a republican group and will not swear loyalty to the Queen, which is needed to take seats in the UK parliament.

[Leafsnail]

10 point swing to Labour in London. Apparently they've taken Canterbury which has been Conservative since 1850. They are taking some losses in the North but it's far less than expected.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Portsmouth South (+12.5%) flips Tory to Laor. Not as big a gap as Battersea, but the bell of Corbyn tolls for the Tory majority once more.

[hector13]

SNP have 25/59 seats so far, 22 seats left to call it.

Still on track for more than half the seats in Scotland guys hardly a crushing loss.

[smjjames]

So far, the BBC shows Tories as losing 5 seats while The Guardian shows 6. They're right about where Theresa May said she would step down as PM if Tories lost that much.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Even so, it looks a bit nasty. Though I suppose for the second indyref it's more important to hold control of the Scottish Parliament. Maybe they could swing it as a coalition deal with Laor?

[RedKing]

SNP holds onto Glasgow Southwest and Glasgow East by 0.2% in each. All in all, they'll keep all the Glaswegian districts except NE. But holy hell they're taking a beating in their heartlands.


MSH: After tonight, does Labour win their "b" back?

[MetalSlimeHunt]

I'm strongly considering it. If Laor goes beyond the impossible and wins a straight majority I may even grant jubilee and restore the "u" as well.

The Tories, on the other hand, are at immense risk for losing their "r", mostly for the hubris of calling this election.

[RedKing]

T'would be a bit awkward to go round being Labur. Pepl mite thenk thay kant spel.


Theresa May holds her Maidenhead by a 45.5 margin. (so many double entendres, so little time...)

[hector13]

Even so, it looks a bit nasty. Though I suppose for the second indyref it's more important to hold control of the Scottish Parliament. Maybe they could swing it as a coalition deal with Laor?

I can assure you quite comfortably that no British party has taken leave of their senses enough to enter into an official coalition with the SNP.

I am going to go out on a limb, perhaps contradicting my earlier statement that the last election was an outlier, and say this was technically a Brexit election, even if there wasn't much campaigning on it. The SNP are not going to be able to do anything at that particular table, so people are choosing between the Tories and Laor (why Laor, by the way?)