General Election 2017 pt 3 - Winners and losers

[Yukon]

Most sensible post I've seen you post...ever

 

Most of it's over your head flower

[For Us All]

Nicola needs to consider her position after getting slated up north.Well done Ruth Davidson.

[geosname]

Labour won in the major cities. Votes by the young and Muslims won it for them in these places. Maybe the Conservatives need to look at doing more for these groups or do they concentrate on getting back the voters who have always backed them.

 

Like labour in stoke south then?... nearly kidsgrove too

[philpvfc]

Like labour in stoke south then?... nearly kidsgrove too

 

Would you class Stoke as a major city?

[Fosse69]

Labour won in the major cities. Votes by the young and Muslims won it for them in these places. Maybe the Conservatives need to look at doing more for these groups or do they concentrate on getting back the voters who have always backed them.

Metro and doughnuts, the metros are well paid centres of business, that sit within the doughnuts of the commuting areas. The challenge now is to spread that culture to lesser cities and towns. Energizing the young vote will mean that the balance of power is moving away from the pensioners, the young who are the first generation to be worse off than their parents are likely to stay progressive longer than their parents did.

[For Us All]

Like labour in stoke south then?... nearly kidsgrove too

 

Never known that in my lifetime,things are changing.

[For Us All]

Metro and doughnuts, the metros are well paid centres of business, that sit within the doughnuts of the commuting areas. The challenge now is to spread that culture to lesser cities and towns. Energizing the young vote will mean that the balance of power is moving away from the pensioners, the young who are the first generation to be worse off than their parents are likely to stay progressive longer than their parents did.

 

Young people do perhaps need to experience a Labour government in power before they are allowed to vote?

[Andyregs]

Never known that in my lifetime,things are changing.

 

Ukip and BNP didn't put anyone up is what changed. Flello increased his vote.

[Jacko51]

Give over. He massively exceeded all expectations. The highest number of labour votes since Blairs landslide victory.

 

The Tories have the highest number of Tory votes since 1992. It's because the electorate has increased so much.

[Jacko51]

Ukip and BNP didn't put anyone up is what changed. Flello increased his vote.

 

There were no Ukip or BNP for most of the previous 80 odd years either Andy.

[davidatpreston]

Young people do perhaps need to experience a Labour government in power before they are allowed to vote?

 

There are some who will answer that by saying older people should give up their votes at, say 65 or 70, as they are voting on things like climate change which will not affect them (if we are lucky) but the young.

The young are the future, the young provide the hope.

 

Just about everything has alreay been said but I think Mr H summed it up well by saying what an absolute kicking it was on here for .

 

They didn't win but the media are better judges than any single person on here and called it a 'disasterous night for the Tories'.

 

And Im not convinced with those SNP-haters, who still got 26 seats in Scotland when Labout got 6, Tories 6 and Libs 2 or 3. They are 'licking their wounds' a bit but only because they did too well for their own good last time. They are the team at the top of the league ins Scotland who build up a 30-point lead then lose a few games and it ends up with being an 8-point league (not Celtic literally though).

 

Those who say everyone lost are just kidding themselves. The country has shifted to the left, policies like nationalisation are very alive again now, and Brexit has been hit hard and may be over. Even at best for it, it will be delayed, and eventually common sense will prevail and it will be scrapped.

 

A shame the Greens didn't do better, but this had to be C v L and congratulations to the wonderful Caroline Lucas who increased her majority. A bit sorry for Nic Clegg losing his seat (even though it was to Labour) as he is a decent person despite his awful error of the coalition. Libs also suffered from the C v L element of the election.

 

Great to see UKIP almost totally destroyed too - and nut-job sent off back to his sewage farm - 3000 votes against the winner with 25000 or so in his won seat says it all.

 

And yes, the foxes should be safe now, and what a joy to see them singing 'We will keep the Red Flag flying here' over Canterbury.

 

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ALl in all, a most enjoyable night, with more to come.

[For Us All]

I'd just like to congratulate Spurs on winning the Premier League.😁

[For Us All]

All the crowing in the world won't change the fact the man you keep ironically calling "unelectable", in reality wasn't elected. That's like losing a game of pool by six balls and celebrating because it wasn't all seven- loser talk is what it is, grow up

 

Spot on,he is no longer "unelectable" he is "unaffordable" as well?

[bookworm]

Iknow it's late but I can hear a bantamcock crowing.

[bookworm]

There are some who will answer that by saying older people should give up their votes at, say 65 or 70, as they are voting on things like climate change which will not affect them (if we are lucky) but the young.

The young are the future, the young provide the hope.

 

Just about everything has alreay been said but I think Mr H summed it up well by saying what an absolute kicking it was on here for .

 

They didn't win but the media are better judges than any single person on here and called it a 'disasterous night for the Tories'.

 

And Im not convinced with those SNP-haters, who still got 26 seats in Scotland when Labout got 6, Tories 6 and Libs 2 or 3. They are 'licking their wounds' a bit but only because they did too well for their own good last time. They are the team at the top of the league ins Scotland who build up a 30-point lead then lose a few games and it ends up with being an 8-point league (not Celtic literally though).

 

Those who say everyone lost are just kidding themselves. The country has shifted to the left, policies like nationalisation are very alive again now, and Brexit has been hit hard and may be over. Even at best for it, it will be delayed, and eventually common sense will prevail and it will be scrapped.

 

A shame the Greens didn't do better, but this had to be C v L and congratulations to the wonderful Caroline Lucas who increased her majority. A bit sorry for Nic Clegg losing his seat (even though it was to Labour) as he is a decent person despite his awful error of the coalition. Libs also suffered from the C v L element of the election.

 

Great to see UKIP almost totally destroyed too - and nut-job sent off back to his sewage farm - 3000 votes against the winner with 25000 or so in his won seat says it all.

 

And yes, the foxes should be safe now, and what a joy to see them singing 'We will keep the Red Flag flying here' over Canterbury.

 

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ALl in all, a most enjoyable night, with more to come.

 

Don't go over the top david.