discussion UK Politics 🇬🇧🏛️ Election - Greens quadruple their seats!

[RihannaRTT]

Girl what happened to Reform's 13 seats They have 4 rn and we're at 637/650 declarations

 

Liz Truss out by 600 votes bye lettuce

[POPTART]

It is actually scary how Reform is getting the seats now, it'll only grow next time around if the things don't change. But looking at the rest of the Europe, UK is pretty much heading there. 

 

 

 

 

[Janet]

6 minutes ago, POPTART said:

It is actually scary how Reform is getting the seats now, it'll only grow next time around if the things don't change. But looking at the rest of the Europe, UK is pretty much heading there. 

 

 

 

 

The scary thing is how many votes they're getting in places that they're not getting elected in

 

 they got a predicted 15% of all votes

Edited July 5, 2024 by Janet

[SapphireSky]

What's going on in Leicester 

Edited July 5, 2024 by SapphireSky

[Kiel D-01]

Green doing so well in Bristol. 

[glitch]

Oh this is much better than the exit poll suggested. Thank god reform didn't get 13 seats  Happy for the greens and the lib dems, and good to see the DUP is no longer the biggest party in Northern Ireland 

[Chemist]

 

 

[glitch]

Wait Liz Truss lost her seat? 

 

Penny Mourdant, Jacob Rees Mogg, Grant Shapps and Steve Baker OUT

[Chemist]

It was not even close They love him over there!

 

[Chemist]

 

[CaptainMusic]

5 hours ago, shimind said:

so UK equivalent of Democrats are winning and republicans are losing? am i correct? Good job UK. Another country where the needle is swinging to the left 

Labour are not much different than the tories now so not much to celebrate, Democrats are a lot better with some things like trans rights.

 

Starmer is just another transphobic ******* who stands for nothing. 

5 hours ago, discreetinside said:

Labour truly fumbled this seat based from the candidate selection 

 

 

I voted Independently for Faiza, the way she would've won easily if she was the rightful candidate for Labour. Idiots.  

 

22 minutes ago, Chemist said:

 

 

Love to see it, nobody likes this clown. They just hate the tories and his "support" is unsustainable unless he brings actual change, which he won't. 

[Mean Trees]

Jeremy Corbyn Better than Bernard and much braver too. Wish he were here.

 

Greens outperforming Labour, I can see a Germany situation. You can see how the Left coalition is in trouble because they're totally in love with doing zilch, if not being reckless.

[storminthedark]

Terf Joanna Cherry losing her seat Douglas Ross OUT 4 independent candidates winning over Labour Reform not getting 13 seats as predicted 

[glitch]

5 minutes ago, storminthedark said:

Terf Joanna Cherry losing her seat

Omg 

 

I'm not on twitter anymore but her tweets used to piss me off. Good riddance 

[abelfenty]

Thank GOD Reform got less seats than the exit poll suggested. However, the fact they got the 3rd most votes (more than the Lib Dems) is a major concern 

 

[sunbathinganimal]

23 minutes ago, storminthedark said:

Terf Joanna Cherry losing her seat 

wait

[Badger]

I don't feel optimistic at all.  Not enough of a conservative defeat and too many votes for reform. 

[zzmyth]

They need to reform the UK election process... as the results are so unbalanced and unreal tbh.

 

I know that would mean that Reform UK would have got +90 seats... but the greens would've +40 seats SNP would be at +15 Labour at 220 and Cons 150.

 

It's so surreal that a party with a 34% share is holding 63% of the seats--- like what?

 

Maybe not taking all of the UK as one circunscription... but all 4 separated and divide them as 4 circunscriptions, to be more fair to local parties too.

[Chemist]

 

This is crazy, not really a democracy

[Fevesy]

4 million votes for Reform and 6.7 million votes for Conservative. Oh we're going back to HELL in the next election.

 

Lib Dem rising in seats 

 

SNP tanking is very pleasing to me. We need that party gone at this point since it's hard to vote for them when the party gives mixed signals on policies that aren't independence and all the scandals as of late however Alba is NOT it. I'ma say let's put independence to the side for a few years since no shade, the independence movement needs the Tories in Westminster to prosper. SNP will never win in my constituency again due to repeat failings so they need a full rebrand

 

 

 

 

[discreetinside]

1 hour ago, SapphireSky said:

What's going on in Leicester 

Looks like the protest vote for Gaza/Israel. Similar situation happened in Birmingham Labour narrowly lose one of the seat and the majority vote reduce a lot became marginal seat.

[abelfenty]

2 minutes ago, zzmyth said:

They need to reform the UK election process... as the results are so unbalanced and unreal tbh.

 

I know that would mean that Reform UK would have got +90 seats... but the greens would've +40 seats SNP would be at +15 Labour at 220 and Cons 150.

 

It's so surreal that a party with a 34% share is holding 63% of the seats--- like what?

 

Maybe not taking all of the UK as one circunscription... but all 4 separated and divide them as 4 circunscriptions, to be more fair to local parties too.

Hard disagree. The whole point of the current system is to avoid the densely populated cities dictating the full result 

[zzmyth]

2 minutes ago, abelfenty said:

Hard disagree. The whole point of the current system is to avoid the densely populated cities dictating the full result 

I'm sorry... but in the end small parties are the ones losing as always and this turns into a lib vs cons battle every time, when the truth is that over 40% of the people that voted DID NOT vote for any of the two parties. And that is with a 60% of turnout... so... literally the results are even worsely reflective of any truth.

 

I'm not saying that the Spanish system is good (as that's the only one I know) but it sure is MUCH MORE correlative and reflective of it's results, even with BIG FLAWS and all..

 

 

[glitch]

12 minutes ago, abelfenty said:

Hard disagree. The whole point of the current system is to avoid the densely populated cities dictating the full result 

And those areas tend to be more left wing and anti Brexit so maybe that wouldn't be a bad thing 

[Bubble Tea]

Thank god Labour finally won in UK.

 

The west is so back

 

But yes UK absolutely needs to get a MMP system in place. Labour should be forced to form coalitions with the smaller parties to make a higher majority. It's what we have in New Zealand. God knows it's not perfect and has meant three scummy parties have joined up to form a government but at least they kinda control and limit each of their own extremes. 

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed-member_proportional_representation