Ne'er get thee stitched til Booris be ditched: UK General Election 2019

I can't even celebrate that tbh.

Haven’t you heard - Dodd is dead

Not what I heard, I heard Nigel Dodd's dad's dog's dead.

Slap it up him. Turnout in N. Belfast between 70 and 80%

DUP never gained N Down, lost to Alliance from a vacated independent seat

SDLP polling well in S Belfast

Burnley - Tory Gain - first time since 1931

— Britain Elects (@britainelects) December 13, 2019

what a bunch of dyche-heads

Tories gain Ynys Mon from Labour. YouGov MRP had it down as a Plaid Cyrmu gain.

the shires have fucking lost the plot

Disgusting, depressing result.

I think the only consolation is that it was quite obviously Brexit which propelled Johnson over the line and he won't have that next time. Indeed it's more likely that he'll have to contend with a dip in the British economy after Brexit happens.

It's a dark night though. There really are a lot of small-minded arseholes in Britain. When you see the Tories taking seats in places like Halifax and Middlesbrough you know it's bad.

So much for all those queues around the block at the polling stations (though my heart sank when it became obvious that all of those photos were taken in London, where Labour is invariably strong anyway).

When you see the Tories taking seats in places like Halifax and Middlesbrough you know it's bad.

Not Middlesbrough. Labour still got over half the vote there.

Bye bye zac goldsmith

Raab in.

Swinson apparently on track to be out

Corbyn announcing he's stepping down once new leader elected

Or, more vaguely, before next election.

Who was that cunt who shouted 'No Surrender, Boris"

I can’t listen to this nob for another five years

Swinson gone!

Swinson out

The PM we never had

She’s done her job

Claire Hanna SDLP takes South Belfast; another DUP loss

Pidcock lost?

Sadly, yes.

I can’t imagine how disenfranchised black and brown people in this country must be. The idea that working class people reject left wing policies is so profoundly racist and such a deletion of non-white voices that it boggles the mind. How many people have been energised by this labour campaign who have never engaged with politics before? I’ve not seen any people of colour on the bbc tonight.

I mean I know that’s the explicit aim of the people who run this country and who are fucking happy after every fucking election but still

Ah no it’s cool here’s Michael Gove

Went for a cigarette and oh cool here’s Theresa May

Emma Dent Coad out

Love posh cunts talking about working class people like they are their little trinkets to be manipulated oh wait

xp fucking hell thats disgusting

The contempt for people who were fucking burned alive

150 votes

Christ

+9% to Lib dems. Off lies. I’m going to stop posting, fuck all this

good luck UK

i am sorry

Lol Baz Sheerman holds

great big hugs to all. We will grow old watching the pendulum swing back. Never lose faith.

Dennis Skinner loses by 5,000 votes.

Staying up for Finchley then I'm out.

Finchley is tory

Oh, it's already been. Right, good night.

xp

my condolences y'all. some elections suck much worse than others, as we US'ers can attest.

K we now have a new leader for strongest correlation, and I think this is narratively significant:

The share of workers in low-skilled jobs was a bigger predictor of swing than either Brexit vote or graduates.

Suggests this was more working class revolt than Brexit election. pic.twitter.com/IJbqQpqY3A

— John Burn-Murdoch (@jburnmurdoch) December 13, 2019

“New leader for strongest correlation” “narratively significant” whoever this is is a huckster

Had a kip and feel a bit better. Important to note that those lost votes didn’t got to the centre - if the problem was a top left wing labour you’d expect votes to go to the LDs and Greens, not Brexit and Tories.

Now we just need Sinker to arise and christen this new era in a new thread

well as a number of people have pointed out the vote share was same as 15 and 10. policies didn’t perform any worse. tories performed a lot better and the demographic upheavals are tectonic.

one hour till i land. feel bleak, sad and upset beyond belief tbh. a vile government.

Sorry, friends

managed to get to sleep just before 10, woke up with a sense of dread at 4am and couldn't face looking at the news until now. fuck.

All I'm saying is, let's not spend too much time in devastation and shock. The odds were always against us. Let's start in Britain the work already begun by heroic dissidents in other places: crafting a new political landscape, stone by patient stone. There's no other choice.

— Priyamvada Gopal (@PriyamvadaGopal) December 13, 2019