General Election 2017 | Cabinet reshuffle: Hunt re-appointed Health Secretary for record third time

How do you intend to vote in the 2017 General Election if eligible?

  • Conservatives

    Votes: 80 14.5%
  • Labour

    Votes: 322 58.4%
  • Lib Dems

    Votes: 57 10.3%
  • Green

    Votes: 20 3.6%
  • SNP

    Votes: 13 2.4%
  • UKIP

    Votes: 29 5.3%
  • Independent

    Votes: 3 0.5%
  • Plaid Cymru

    Votes: 2 0.4%
  • Sinn Fein

    Votes: 11 2.0%
  • Other (UUP, DUP, BNP, and anyone else I have forgotten)

    Votes: 14 2.5%

  • Total voters
    551
  • Poll closed .
exit poll 2 years ago was tories with 316 seats, they ended up with 331.........

thats quite worrying!
Even if Conservatives end up with 20 extra seats, it shows the gamble for a snap election was a failure for May. She wanted to increase her mandate by 40+ seats, not 4.
 
Agreed. Don't want to leave the Union? Just vote no in any and all Indyrefs. But don't vote Tory ffs.
Yep, petty buggers.
 
Even if Conservatives end up with 20 extra seats, it shows the gamble for a snap election was a failure for May. She wanted to increase her mandate by 40+ seats, not 4.
it is a failure for may, but it still leaves us with a tory government that doesn't need to compromise.
 
Biggest point isn't Tories not losing vote share, it's UKIP going Labour. Incredible really, not predicted.
 
I may be wrong, but to be the leader of a Party you have to be a MP , if she loses her seat, she loses everything.
She could still be pm for a while, what would most likely happen is an mp in a very safe seat would resign and she would stand there in the by-election
 
Thing is, suppose the exit poll is wrong and the Tories do get their majority (just). May is still a failure.

That's what I was wondering. Even if she gets the same result as before, she's wasted about 6 weeks, a lot of effort and money to gain nothing. At the least, it undermines her image as a brillaint leader that the Tories had built up since she took over.

I can't quite grasp what coalition would develop based on these numbers. Even with our own nutters DUP here in N.Ireland siding with them, that's only 8 (usually).

Would the Lib Dems really do it again after what happened last time?

They couldn't possibly do that. How on earth would they work out what to do with Brexit?
 
She could still be pm for a while, what would most likely happen is an mp in a very safe seat would resign and she would stand there in the by-election

Can't see it, why would any MP give up their seat for a failure of a leader who couldn't even hold their own seat?
 
It makes you think what could have been, had Labour got behind Corbyn and there wasn't all the infighting... still May probably wouldn't have called the election.
 
Heidi Allen better not be a victim of this night. :nervous: That and my own constituency would just about clinch the shit so far as this is concerned.
 
Declaration: Labour Hold Newcastle Upon Tyne Central.
 
it is a failure for may, but it still leaves us with a tory government that doesn't need to compromise.
When this election was called, the Tories had a 20 point lead to begin with. It felt like the labour party were crumbling to pieces but there is hope that the Tories can be listed maybe not now but certainly in 5 years time.