Dig deep, and find your 3 positives from the General Election 2019.

[Idris2002]

likesfish is the author of The Case Against Army Reform.

 

[kebabking]

1. Chuka.

2. Swinson.

3. That I have retained my treasured position as Urbans foremost political forecaster - many here will recall that just yesterday I forecast that Wyre Forest, a leave voting, swing constituency then held by a no mark Tory with a 10,000 majority, would go Labour by a whisker. Well, he increased his majority by another 10,000, and the Labour bloke lost 30% of the 2017 vote.

I thank you.

 

[likesfish]

likesfish is the author of The Case Against Army Reform.

Hmps now

 

[Poot]

1. The foodbank stuff I've been saving. I'll have loads of drop-off points to take it now.
2. One good cold snap and the NHS will have fewer people to treat next year. Hooray!
3. My kids were getting a bit cocky with their text books and their pencils and their teaching staff and their "state education". This'll teach them.

Is that the sort of thing?

 

[emanymton]

From what I saw of the results last night it didn't look like there was much of an increase in the Tory vote, but a droop in the Labour vote. So there does appear to be a massive increase in the number if people voting for the cunts.

 

[Baronage-Phase]

Cant see any positives from an Irish perspective. We are pretty much fucked now....brexit will go ahead and the repercussions for Ireland will hit hard.

Possible positives include some funny memes about Boris coming out of a fridge and walking everyone into a deep frying pan?

 

[JuanTwoThree]

1 There's a fair chance that Boris will say or do something so breathtakingly crass or criminal that he will have to go.

2 There's a slight chance that it will emerge that he already has and he'll have to go.

3 There's a slim chance that his then replacement will not be such a knob.

Don't hold your breath.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

40 new hospitals, one every 60 days for the next five years.

Brexit all finished by the end of January, never to be heard of again.

Swinson.

 

[Poot]

1 There's a fair chance that Boris will say or do something so breathtakingly crass or criminal that he will have to go.

2 There's a slight chance that it will emerge that he already has and he'll have to go.

3 There's a slim chance that his then replacement will not be such a knob.

Don't hold your breath.

Johnson could walk into parliament, pull his pants down take a shit on the speaker's head, and then declare that he's closing all the schools and hospitals and people for some fucking crazy reason will still prefer him to Corbyn. That's the great mystery of our time.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

There are none. Literally none. We are so, so fucked.

 

[Cid]

Swinson
Hallam
Scotland

 

[Steel Icarus]

Small comfort but perhaps Johnson has to ensure his cabinet isn't full of headbangers, although what passes for a Tory moderate still makes my skin crawl

 

[Proper Tidy]

Not really many positives. The eternal hope that something beyond labour will take hold maybe. Shitshow though isn't it

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

Small comfort but perhaps Johnson has to ensure his cabinet isn't full of headbangers, although what passes for a Tory moderate still makes my skin crawl

Why does he? He has a large enough majority to ensure he can do anything he damn well wants.

 

[Pickman's model]

Why does he? He has a large enough majority to ensure he can do anything he damn well wants.

Yeh he's already shown what he thinks of the remainers in his party by inviting so many of them to join his cabinet

 

[redsquirrel]

Swinson
Hallam
Scotland

Didn't realise Labour had held Hallam. Surprised by that.

 

[David Clapson]

Corbyn can fuck off
Momentum can fuck off
Jewish ex-Labour MPs can say we told you so

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

At least my vote for Sarah Jones did what it intended.
Swindon out
Turkeys voting for Christmas can't now blame anyone else for the mess that is to follow.

Bad news is I feel drained. I am all out of hope.

 

[bimble]

1. Disillusionment is a good thing ? As in knowing how bad things are is a necessary start.
2. Everyone can stop talking about Jews now.
3. When all the lies get shown for what they were maybe this election will serve as a sort of inoculation against future repeats of same.

 

[Baronage-Phase]

Some positives.
John Finucane taking Nigel Dodds seat.
And, for the first time, Northern Ireland has more nationalist than unionist MPs

 

[StoneRoad]

I can't see ANY positives from these results.

the only minor one - media exit poll gave Labour 191 seats but achieved 203.

 

[cupid_stunt]

Independent Group for Change got less than half the votes of the rump of UKIP, and only 267 more than the Monster Raving Loony Party.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

I can't see ANY positives from these results.

Me neither.

 

[danny la rouge]

Independent Group for Change got less than half the votes of the rump of UKIP, and only 267 more than the Monster Raving Loony Party.

I can’t be bothered digging around, but is there any link to how those who formed the brief breakaway did? I’m guessing every one of them lost their seats, whichever banner they finally stood under.

 

[cupid_stunt]

I can’t be bothered digging around, but is there any link to how those who formed the brief breakaway did? I’m guessing every one of them lost their seats, whichever banner they finally stood under.

I've only seen the total figure for the Independent Group for Change - 10,006 - and certainly none elected.

Full results of all parties that stood - Results of the 2019 General Election

 

[Plumdaff]

There are a lot of young, and not so young people who are left wing, know how to campaign, and are all on WhatsApp groups. That can be harnessed.

The Tories will completely own whatever happens with Brexit.

 

[cupid_stunt]

David Gauke did well as an independent - 15,919 / 26% - but still lost to the Tories.

Hertfordshire South West parliamentary constituency - Election 2019

 

[flypanam]

1. The Swinson swan dive.
2. Gerry Carroll coming second in West Belfast (he's a trot but his vote was okay)
3. Not watching the BBC for a long while.

 

[billy_bob]

1. Swinson
2. All the tiggers and new Lib Dems
3. BJ can't blame parliament deadlock as easily when Brexit continues to be a shambles

 

[Idris2002]

The worse, the better, as Lenin taught us.