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UK General Election Live Thread (December 12, 2019)
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| 12/12/2019
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Posted on 12/12/2019 2:18:28 AM PST by goldstategop
Live Updates: U.K. Votes in General Election
Britains 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 countrys landmark Brexit referendum.
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To: goldstategop
Cons are holding seats in London they thought they might lose.
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posted on
12/12/2019 6:58:39 PM PST
by
MNJohnnie
(They would have to abandon leftism to achieve sanity. Freeper Olog-hai)
To: goldstategop
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posted on
12/12/2019 6:58:55 PM PST
by
RightGeek
(FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
To: goldstategop
Looks like an interesting realignment with old labour stronghold’s outside of London going Conservative for the first time. Kind of like the old rust belt blue wall crumbling in favor of Trump.
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posted on
12/12/2019 6:59:12 PM PST
by
mrs9x
To: MNJohnnie
Cons take Eastbourn from Libs
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posted on
12/12/2019 7:02:14 PM PST
by
MNJohnnie
(They would have to abandon leftism to achieve sanity. Freeper Olog-hai)
To: MNJohnnie
Thats augurs well for their majority. Only one seat lost to Labour in Putney.
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posted on
12/12/2019 7:04:03 PM PST
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: mrs9x
Yeah that is what it looks like Looks like a re-alignment where Labor is now going to be the Globalist upper class party like the Dems are here
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posted on
12/12/2019 7:05:08 PM PST
by
MNJohnnie
(They would have to abandon leftism to achieve sanity. Freeper Olog-hai)
To: MNJohnnie
Tories will emerge with a smaller majority according to revised exit poll. They will get 357 to 201 for Labour.
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posted on
12/12/2019 7:05:32 PM PST
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: goldstategop
110-87 Tories putting some daylight between them and Labour
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posted on
12/12/2019 7:07:17 PM PST
by
xp38
To: lodi90
I can tell...
That Sturgeon woman is completely divorced from reality.
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posted on
12/12/2019 7:09:39 PM PST
by
Vaden
(First they came for the Confederates... Next they came for Washington... Then they came...)
To: MNJohnnie
OMG... how exciting.
If I were British I would feel like 2016.
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posted on
12/12/2019 7:11:01 PM PST
by
Vaden
(First they came for the Confederates... Next they came for Washington... Then they came...)
To: Vaden
Sky calling a con victory of at least of 350.
are the reporters on the BBC crying?
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posted on
12/12/2019 7:11:20 PM PST
by
bob_esb
To: RightGeek
What a lunatic.
If they chop her head off she won’t be sad anymore.
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posted on
12/12/2019 7:12:01 PM PST
by
Vaden
(First they came for the Confederates... Next they came for Washington... Then they came...)
To: bob_esb
BBC has actually been pretty balanced and tough on Labour representatives on set.
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posted on
12/12/2019 7:12:29 PM PST
by
mrs9x
To: bob_esb
BBC now projects a Tory majority of 357.
Liberal Democrat gain in Richmond Park.
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posted on
12/12/2019 7:14:39 PM PST
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: RightGeek
I hope the conservatives deport Muslims.
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posted on
12/12/2019 7:19:55 PM PST
by
rurgan
(Democrats are socialists. Vote for Trump or the US will be Venezuela)
To: goldstategop
They actually have candidates for a party called Raving Loony party LOL
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posted on
12/12/2019 7:20:01 PM PST
by
MNJohnnie
(They would have to abandon leftism to achieve sanity. Freeper Olog-hai)
To: mrs9x
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn re-elected in his Islington North riding. Labour hold.
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posted on
12/12/2019 7:20:24 PM PST
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: goldstategop
They put the Jewish Brexit candidate next Corbyn. LOL
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posted on
12/12/2019 7:21:32 PM PST
by
MNJohnnie
(They would have to abandon leftism to achieve sanity. Freeper Olog-hai)
To: goldstategop
Latest BBC forecast: Con 357 seats, Lab 201, Lib Dems 13, SNP 55, Plaid 4, Green 1, Brexit 0, Others 19
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posted on
12/12/2019 7:21:35 PM PST
by
RightGeek
(FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
To: RightGeek
Would love to see labour get below 200.
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posted on
12/12/2019 7:23:17 PM PST
by
bob_esb
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