General Election June 2017

I need tea, or I'm going to fall asleep and wake up at midday

Fuck. I can't go to bed until the Moray vote comes in. I've finished all the Balvenie Caribbean Cask and am running on fumes.

Onto the Taylor's here - this may be an interesting ride in tomorrow, weaving, waving a hastily scrawled banner.

Tom Watson--note the last sentence:

We still don’t know what the final result of this election is. It is too early to say. But it looks likely to be a very bad result for Theresa May.

She said: “It is a fact that if we lose just six seats, we will lose our majority and Jeremy Corbyn will become prime minister”. We do not yet know the final result, but we intend to hold her to that ...

The next few hours - maybe the next few days - look very uncertain. But one thing we can be sure of is that Theresa May’s authority has evaporated. She is a damaged Prime Minister whose reputation may never recover.

One thing is for certain: people want hope. And when they’re offered it, they vote for it.

I visited over 50 constituencies during this campaign and at each one of them I pointed out that Theresa May had promised six times not to call a snap election. I said it was our job to make sure she would profoundly regret calling an election based on political opportunism. And tonight, whatever the final result is, it looks we have done that.

She thought she was going to get a Margaret Thatcher-style majority. That now seems way out of her reach.

The prime minister fought one of the most negative, pessimistic and defensive campaigns in British history and the British people delivered their verdict on that.

She boasted she was strong and stable. The public saw that she was weak and wobbly. She boasted that she was a bloody difficult woman. The public saw that she was a woman who was finding it all bloody difficult.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2017/jun/08/general-election-results-2017-uk-live-labour-tories-corbyn-may-election-results-live-news-line?page=with:block-5939f328e4b0be3ed19246e4#block-5939f328e4b0be3ed19246e4

Bundle check announced in Stroud after discussion with acting count officer David Hagg. Rumour is David Drew has won by 700 votes.

Also @tommmmmmm, dude, you campaigned in Dagenham - having spent far too long there as a child a Steamroller and coffee may not be adequate payment.

Not a good night for Nuttalls.

Oh fuck.

Farron in danger - too close to call.

Fucking Scotchland. What are they doing? We all wanted to move there after Brexit, despite the weather and food, now they've gone all Tory.

Angus Robertson gone, but swing to the Tories like in a few other Scottish seats so far.

Sad news on both counts. He was a good leader in Westminster, and a good opponent for May. The plurality of people in his constituency are obviously dolts.

It's amazing in a way!

I liked Angus Robertson at the leadership debate.

I just texted the boss to say I'm
Going to be late for work tomorrow.

:(

Just realised I don't have a boss anymore.

Me too. Seemed a decent man.

Biggest Brexit supporting constituency in Scotland I think.

Gwannnnnnn Stroud

You worked for Amber Rudd?

YES STROUD.BIG SWINGER

Dundee West: 15% swing away from the SNP but they're still sitting on 45%. Mental.

Funny how it's being described as "May's high-risk strategy" when all along it was accepted as being based on there being no way she could lose.

Gwaaaaan Bury North.

😂

Then she cracked her face and people heard how little she had to offer...