U.K. Politics: Boris Johnson referred to police (AGAIN) over potential Covid rule breaches

[Kaloki]

If every voter in Scotland votes for the 2nd placed party it makes no difference. Scotland's vote has never made a difference on the overall outcome of any general election.

Except for probably this one

Yeah and that is the depressing thing.
Once again Scotland ****'s it up for themselves.
I have no idea why anyone in Scotland would vote for the tories. I've yet to hear one reason. That's not a lie. I've never seen anyone who has voted tory in Scotland and given a reason for it.

Agreed - seems like turkeys voting for Christmas to me

If Sturgeon hadn't started on about indyref 2 a few months back the Tories wouldn't have won near as many seats in Scotland. They had a few seats with tiny majorities.

I also blame Kezia for not being more firmly anti independence, and the lib dems for standing in seats they had no chance of winning in Scotland and draining seats away from the SNP and Labour

[oasisbobo]

If every voter in Scotland votes for the 2nd placed party it makes no difference. Scotland's vote has never made a difference on the overall outcome of any general election.

Except for probably this one

Yeah and that is the depressing thing.
Once again Scotland ****'s it up for themselves.
I have no idea why anyone in Scotland would vote for the tories. I've yet to hear one reason. That's not a lie. I've never seen anyone who has voted tory in Scotland and given a reason for it.

[heppolo]

I've added more commentary to my post above.

I've thought that Boris would be in this for the long game, since he was appointed Foreign Secretary - his aspirations are just too much for "just" the position of Foreign Secretary.

I think the Tory MPs are probably that disillusioned with Theresa today that they'd probably vote him in.

BoJo is a self-centered clown of Trump's proportions

[heppolo]

If every voter in Scotland votes for the 2nd placed party it makes no difference. Scotland's vote has never made a difference on the overall outcome of any general election.

Except for probably this one

[oasisbobo]

Surely the Scottish woman needs to resign now too?

I assume you mean Nicola Sturgeon who won a large majority of the seats in Scotland?

She lost 33% of seats. More than any other party - if anyone has lost the most from this election it's the SNP. She thought she would be in a position to offer Labour coelition but her numbers were too low, meaning she had nothing left to negotiate a 2nd referendum with - which surely should be the aim of her party whilst the Tories and Labour cannot win a majority.

If every voter in Scotland votes for the 2nd placed party it makes no difference. Scotland's vote has never made a difference on the overall outcome of any general election.

[Kaloki]

So we now have a Tory government propped up by a party that doesn't believe in climate change, hates gays, and doesn't even allow women and young girls to have an abortion if they've been raped.


Theresa May lied about a lot of things, but she wasn't lying when she said we'd end up with a coalition of chaos led by terrorist sympathisers

[Wayne]

I've added more commentary to my post above.

I've thought that Boris would be in this for the long game, since he was appointed Foreign Secretary - his aspirations are just too much for "just" the position of Foreign Secretary.

I think the Tory MPs are probably that disillusioned with Theresa today that they'd probably vote him in.

[Artoo]

Boris will go after her job - watch this space.

[Wayne]

Amber Rudd will remain as Home Secretary - good call.

Boris Johnson to remain as Foreign Secretary - very bad call.

David Davis to remain Brexit Secretary - great call.

Michael Fallon to remain Defence Secretary - bad call.

Philip Hammond to remain as Chancellor - bad call.

She really should've taken this opportunity to reshuffle - Amber Rudd as Chancellor (though retaining her in any senior position is a positive - she's brilliant), I possibly would've switched Boris with David but probably sacked Boris actually and appointed a new Brexit secretary. There is something about David Davis that I really like - he comes across as a steadfast & stellar statesman.

I would've loved it if she'd taken this opportunity to just really reshuffle - new, young blood into the cabinet. She still has loads of posts to fill with Jeremy Hunt (Health), Priti Patel (ID) & Justine Greening (Education) all holding tenuous positions.

[Wayne]

The biggest upsets of the night...

Liberal Democrats - Nick Clegg
Former deputy Prime Minister and leader of the Liberal Democrats

He had previously held his Sheffield Hallam seat since 2005 and enjoyed his most popular years in the early 2010s when he formed a coalition government with the Conservatives. Last night, he lost his seat to Jared O'Mara (Labour) who won it with a majority of 2,125.

SNPs - Angus Robertson
The SNPs Westminster leader

Angus previously had a majority of 9,065 - this was overturned last night by theh Conservatives' Douglas Ross (who beat him 22,637 votes to 18,478 votes). This represented a huge loss for the SNP.

SNPs - Alex Salmond
Former first minister of Scotland and former leader of the SNP

Perhaps the most infamous SNP result of last night was the loss of Alex Salmond who had his previous majority of 8,687 overturned by the Conservatives' Colin Clark (who won on a massive swing of 20%).

Conservatives - Gavin Barwell
The current Tory housing minister

He was running on a knife edge this year having won last time with a majority of just 165 votes. This time around, he lost his seat to Labour's Sarah Jones (who won 29,873 votes to Barwell's 24,221).

Conservatives - Julian Brazier
Longstanding MP of 30 years

The first time in history that the Canterbury constituency has elected a Labour MP as Labour's Dosie Duffield beat out a Kent MP with 30 years service - Duffield achieved a majority of just 187 votes (25,572 vs. 25,385).

And many more... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2017-40215512

[heppolo]

^UK desperately needs proportional representation, plain and simple

[Wayne]

Overall Numbers

House of Commons - Elected MP Breakdown *

Conservatives - 318 seats (-12 seats)
Labour - 261 seats (+29 seats)
Scottish National Party - 35 seats (-21 seats)
Liberal Democrats - 12 seats (+4 seats)
Democratic Unionist Party - 10 seats (+2 seats)
Other - 13 seats (-2 seats)

* we still have 1 seat to be announced (it's expected to be Tory).

Popular Vote - Breakdown by Party

Conservatives - 42.4% (13,650,900 votes)
Labour - 40.0% (12,858,652 votes)
Liberal Democrat - 7.4% (2,367,048 votes)
Scottish National Party - 3.0% (977,569 votes)
UKIP - 1.8% (593,852 votes)
Green Party - 1.6% (524,604 votes)
Other - 5.4% (1,185,616 votes)

= 32,158,241 total votes cast (68.7% turnout)

[heppolo]

As long as the fear of ethnic minorities will be on the top of the agenda and the terror attacks continue, Tories can mantain their power.

[Storyteller]

Loving the mess
Got what she deserved!

Theresa's probably fine deep inside. DUP pushed Tories to far-right.
Some Brexiteers/Trumpists are already shouting "great to see liberal tears, down with those snowflakes, gays and ethnic minorities" which DUP can drag Tories towards.

I wouldn't worry much. When she makes a balls of brexit, I'm sure another election won't be far behind.

With BoJo as the next PM

You think if she makes a balls of brexit that the conservatives won't lose more seats? Jeremy as PM more like!
He ain't going anywhere. As Sky were saying earlier this morning, he'll be leader for as long as he wants now.

[heppolo]

Loving the mess
Got what she deserved!

Theresa's probably fine deep inside. DUP pushed Tories to far-right.
Some Brexiteers/Trumpists are already shouting "great to see liberal tears, down with those snowflakes, gays and ethnic minorities" which DUP can drag Tories towards.

I wouldn't worry much. When she makes a balls of brexit, I'm sure another election won't be far behind.

With BoJo as the next PM

[Storyteller]

Loving the mess
Got what she deserved!

Theresa's probably fine deep inside. DUP pushed Tories to far-right.
Some Brexiteers/Trumpists are already shouting "great to see liberal tears, down with those snowflakes, gays and ethnic minorities" which DUP can drag Tories towards.

I wouldn't worry much. When she makes a balls of brexit, I'm sure another election won't be far behind.

[heppolo]

Loving the mess
Got what she deserved!

Theresa's probably fine deep inside. DUP pushed Tories to far-right.
Some Brexiteers/Trumpists are already shouting "great to see liberal tears, down with those snowflakes, gays and ethnic minorities" which DUP can drag Tories towards.

[heppolo]

Fine boys have finally got into power
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[Storyteller]

Loving the mess
Got what she deserved!

[Artoo]

Queen grants her permission to form a Govt.

Both a joke!

You're wrong - the Queen doesn't grant permission. The Queen invites the winner of an election to form a government on her behalf and the request is accepted.

You don't ask The Queen for anything

Plus The Queen's role is purely tradition and ceremonial at this point. The Queen isn't really in any position not to ask - and if she didn't, it wouldn't make any difference.

There is nothing that ever makes The Queen 'a joke'

[heppolo]

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[heppolo]

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[urbanmusik]

welcome to the hell that is Northern Ireland

[hun]

Queen grants her permission to form a Govt.

Both a joke!

[urbanmusik]

It's strange seeing twitter blowing up with the DUP's policies when we've had to put up with it for years.

The ignorance from journalists and commentors on twitter etc about Northern Irish politics shows how little the mainland care about us. The media barely covered our election a few months ago (we've had to vote four times in 18 months), while Parliament ignore us and the mess the political parties are making over here until they need us or we start causing trouble.

If Northern Ireland can't form their own government how long will they be able to keep things going in Parliament?

I'm glad Labour managed to get so many young people involved in politics, but a Consevative/DUP link up is temporary ultra-right wing hell.

I wish people in the UK would stop voting for awful parties such as the DUP and Sinn Fein based on cultural identity and start voting based on policies (and get the Green Party in power ).