Predict the UK election result.

[Mojo]

That the Queen comes in with an armed guard and escorts all MPs off to Tyburn?

(well, just a very naive interpretation of "hung" I guess).

No, that would be a hanged parliament.

[Insert Blazing Saddles joke here]

 

[Archie Gemmill Goal]

Usually watch the results with a bottle of whisky but tonight it's only Pepsi Max. Could be a long painful night ahead. And the morning after may well be worse than usual

 

[Darat]

You should have stuck with your instinct. The answer is no. First, that level of detail is OT. Second, the information is freely available on the internet. Third, I'm not about to spend my time presenting you with evidence only for you to ignore it and trot out your habitual straw man arguments. At least have the courtesy to gain knowledge of a subject before you demand that others engage with you.

Oh dear lots of words and still no evidence....

 

[Darat]

Tiresome.

We agree, Tommy is.

 

[NWO Sentryman]

So, I voted.

 

[MikeG]

I did too. Somehow I managed to get through the entire election without receiving a single piece of election literature, from any party, and without laying eyes on a single political poster anywhere. Goodness knows how I managed to make a choice given such a paucity of information.

 

[Vixen]

SKYNews is calling the Exit Poll results, 'sensational'.

 

[NWO Sentryman]

Called it, hung parliament.

 

[Vixen]

They are saying if Jeremy Corbyn gets 20 more seats than the Exit Poll predicts, he'll be Prime Minister, if 20 less, Theresa May gamble pays off.

 

[Mid]

Called it, hung parliament.

Well I voted for a small Tory majority and will stick with it for now although hoping not

 

[Childlike Empress]

It's 21:20 Greenwich time and you don't have more than vague exit polls? Crikey, this isn't up to EU standards.

 

[Antonio Coceri]

I need this to arrive to 15

 

[Antonio Coceri]

Yes, and? That supports exactly what I said. I've told you before, getting your facts straight around here is considered quite important.

This, from the Mirror (there couldn't be a more Labour-supporting paper) that you linked to:





Con mid-range from the above: 301.5
Lab mid range from above: 270

Con 42%, Lab 38%,
This is pretty close to the 3 points gap I was talking about

And Corbyn

http://www.independent.co.uk/News/u...-corbyn-prime-minister-progress-a7780171.html

 

[Information Analyst]

It's 21:20 Greenwich time and you don't have more than vague exit polls? Crikey, this isn't up to EU standards.

The polls closed at 22:00 BST (21:00 BST).

Not sure how you expect the results 20 minutes after people stopped voting.

 

[angrysoba]

Usually watch the results with a bottle of whisky but tonight it's only Pepsi Max. Could be a long painful night ahead. And the morning after may well be worse than usual

You may want to crack open the loudmouth soup after all.

 

[angrysoba]

SNP are being slaughtered.

Angus Robertson has been kicked out.

Tories are surprisingly (to me) strong in Scotland.

Looks like Labour could also be strengthening in Scotland.

 

[angrysoba]

Ha ha! This could be funny. Some Tories are now suggesting that Scotland could swing the election. This upends a lot of conventional SNP "wisdom".

 

[The Don]

Gosh I was very wrong.

I guess a lot of people did what Mrs Don and I did - when we were alone with our ballot paper we realised that the only way to stop the Conservatives was to vote for the party most likely to defeat them, in our case Labour.

Our local Conservative MP (and colossal tool) David Davies got re-elected with a larger share of the vote but a slightly smaller majority as the UKIP vote collapsed and all other parties except Labour lost a few votes.

 

[Darat]

Surprised to see Labour up 10% in my constituency - didn't make the slightest bit of difference to the result of course.

 

[MikeG]

I got it wrong.

The Conservatives have won only a pyrrhic victory, now reliant on the DUP to form a government with a majority slightly less than they had before when they governed alone*. Labour have done better than expected, but only achieved the sort of result that Gordon Brown achieved in 2005, and done it mainly in London and Scotland, and by bribing students. The Lib Dems confounded me, getting a reduced vote share but an increased number of seats. The thing I am most delighted to be wrong about, however, was the SNP result in Scotland. They're down by 20 odd seats, and any thoughts of a second Indyref just went out of the window (there was virtually a 2:1 vote for unionist candidates north of the border). About the only thing I got right was the demise of Ukip.

What a bloody mess.

Oh, and Darat............when I said this election would produce a 2 party result, maybe you understand now.

*The maths is easy. 7 Sinn Fein MPs won't take their seats, and the speaker doesn't count. Therefore the working majority number is 321, and the Conservatives are forecast to have 318, plus the DUP's 10.