UK General Election Live Thread (December 12, 2019)

New York Times ^ | 12/12/2019 | N/A

[goldstategop]

Live Updates: U.K. Votes in General Election

Britain’s voters head to the polls to choose their next government on Thursday in a deeply divided moment for the country that has left the outcome unpredictable.

RIGHT NOW

Voting has begun in the British general election, the second since the country’s landmark Brexit referendum.

[mrs9x]

If Johnson ends up with a strong majority, I wonder how much hardball he can play with the EU. His hand would be a lot stronger.

[cowboyusa]

Nope, Scotland will leave the UK.

[dfwgator]

Corbyn is finished.

[cowboyusa]

Little England?

[xp38]

As usual I’m awaiting the North Minehead results. :)

[goldstategop]

The Tories are expected to repeal the Benn Act and ratify the EU deal.

[dfwgator]

I am here in London now, listening to the coverage it’s really sounding good for the Tories

[outpostinmass2]

https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3800421/posts

[Eleutheria5]

But there’s another group that would be showing up. People who voted for Brexit, who are fed up with EU bureaucracy trying to micromanage everyone’s lives, and are fed up with Labour and other leftist and wobbly parties blocking it in Parliament, and the British fake news trying to scare everyone into either opposing it, or sitting passively while it’s scuttled. In short, the same sort of people who attend Trump rallies in the USA.

[goldstategop]

Watching BBC’s Election Night coverage on C-SPAN2.

[dfwgator]

I don’t like the sound of ese ere Boncentration Bamps.

[xp38]

If you’re in London shouldn’t you be our on the scene reporter?

[MNJohnnie]

Wish I was in London tonight....

[dfwgator]

The strange thing is outside of a few campaign posters you really wouldn’t know there was an election going on. Just my observation.

[Eleutheria5]

I forget. In the War of the Roses, did red stand for Bolingbroke or York?

[Textide]

The corrupt media called it close to maximize the number of commies that would be motivated to pull the lever. Looks like it may have backfired.

[FenwickBabbitt]

Hot damn, that’s great. It’s turns out the elites’ foot-dragging and road-blocking on Brexit really helped the Conservatives win a lot of regular folks over. They are winning in areas they haven’t won in in ages! Thank God Commie Corbyn went down in flames.

[goldstategop]

This is the first December general election in 100 years.

[dfwgator]

As you can imagine the media sounds depressed

[PapaBear3625]

Watching BBC’s Election Night coverage on C-SPAN2.

Are they freaking out like MSNBC was in 2016?