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 .
Right, I'm off to bed. Night folks. (Sure I'll wake up at like 2am though)
 
1-0!

Bring Fellaini on!
 
Amazing that Sunderland have lost out. They've been first since as long as I can remember.
 
feck not good news from Newcastle.
 
Change in vote share

+9.9% Labour
+5.7% Conservative
-1.4% Lib Dem
-10.9% UKIP
-3.3% Green

Turnout: 66.8% (37,094)
 
Can someone please explain what's going on for a first time voter. Not got a clue about exits polls and hung parliaments

They've interviewed 30 thousand people, mostly in marginals and attempted to extrapolate that to the whole country. It's an educated guess that then converts that into an actual seat prediction. But margins in some places are so tight that even a tiny error in the exit poll can change the result.

The "hung" bit just means that no single party has enough seats to win every vote in parliament. If it happens then it's unlikely to lead to a formal coalition this time, more likely to be the tories just about scrabbling to win votes in parliament on almost everything. Probably May loses her job and we have another election sooner rather than later.
 
I want to say again, mostly so I can come back to this outlandish post if it actually transpires like the unctious Mensch and that Claude guy do on twitter, that if Labour pull this out of the bag it will be the perfect symmetrical end to the last 2 years. A shock result in a GE that was unnecessary precipitated by a shock in a Brexit ref that was unnecessary due to an election promise that was unnecessary. It'd be a hell of a period for the history books, some worst-of-all-time political decisions.

:devil:
 
My point is when you had a chance to lead you can't find no one. Now your complaints about May just sounds like perennial whining. You had your chance to put a brexiter in the hot seat and drive it your way... And failed to do so. I don't remember no intrigue on Boris, he just lacked spine. False claims on NHS and immigration were the news immediately after Brexit as I recall clearly.

May was in a rock and hard place and I doubt you or any 14 year old could do a better job. It was a lame job ofc, but that's the best possible at that time. A bit more spine would present a better picture to the plebs, but nothing really canybe achieved by anyone else in same place.

You are evidently talking from an ignorant position if you don't even recall the Boris-Gove incident. And why you are addressing me personally, as if i had some means of control, well it's totally ridiculous.

You're even offering mitigation for May. It was her uninspiring manifesto, and she was the face of the campaign.