Poll: Exit Poll: UK General Election 2017 - Results discussion and OcUK Exit Poll - Closing 8th July

Exit poll: Who did you vote for?

  • Conservatives

    Votes: 302 27.5%

  • Labour

    Votes: 577 52.6%

  • Liberal Democrats

    Votes: 104 9.5%

  • Green

    Votes: 13 1.2%

  • UKIP

    Votes: 19 1.7%

  • Scottish National Party

    Votes: 30 2.7%

  • Plaid Cymru

    Votes: 6 0.5%

  • Other

    Votes: 46 4.2%
  • Total voters
    1,097
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Being a student myself and therefore being a "yoof", let me offer some insight.

Tuition fees of course had something to do with it but I don't think it's bribing. It's more the youth in this country thinking that having debt at such a young age is unfair and so Corbyn saying the richest should pay for it, i.e. tackling their perceived injustice, that gave them hope for an alternative. What did the Tories offer? More of the same, tax-cuts for the rich, etc. (that was the perception).

He really gets students and social media. I have tonnes of photos from people on Facebook at his rallies, being offered hope not fear, happiness, etc. What did the Tories offer? Nothing.
 
gettothechopper said:
After generally thinking you were a reasonable poster on here - im getting more and more disappointed by each of your posts

You are suffering from the same problem as many people I have met who are forces / ex forces - in that you all read the sun, and daily mail, and have a very silly view of students, young people and the left
It must be indoctrinated in you all or something? I always find it a pleasant surprise when forces people hold any other view than the standard issue one, but alas
Im not a usual labour supporter or a particular Corbyn fan, but this kind of nonsense is why TM just got embarrassed so badly
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I don't read the sun or fail and I used to be a student myself. Couldn't stand most of them ;)
 
gettothechopper said:
Funny watching Osbourne smugly throwing rocks too
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Absolutely no loyalty to his party at all. I don't understand it, especially when you consider the socialist policies of the current Labour manifesto are pretty much the direct opposite of his own views. I've got no respect for him at all.

Be interesting to see what happens but I think Labour have some nerve suggesting they now have a mandate. No you don't, you are 56 seats behind the conservatives! He claims they want to try and form a minority government, but even with the SNP and LD they still don't have a majority.
 
rare said:
Absolutely no loyalty to his party at all. I don't understand it, especially when you consider the socialist policies of the current Labour manifesto are pretty much the direct opposite of his own views. I've got no respect for him at all.

Be interesting to see what happens but I think Labour have some nerve suggesting they now have a mandate. No you don't, you are 56 seats behind the conservatives! He claims they want to try and form a minority government, but even with the SNP and LD they still don't have a majority.
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I'm glad Osbourne is calling out his own party. I have respect for people who call out faults even though they are alligned to them.

That's why I have respect for corbyn. He called out Blair on the war.... Because it was the right thing to do.
 
rare said:
Be interesting to see what happens but I think Labour have some nerve suggesting they now have a mandate. No you don't, you are 56 seats behind the conservatives! He claims they want to try and form a minority government, but even with the SNP and LD they still don't have a majority.
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Its just to keep the pressure up on May, while she is desperately trying to stay in power
 
b0redj0rd said:
I don't read newspapers - if you think thecanary is neutral it speaks volumes about your neutrality.
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I didn't say it was, I said it had more credibility than some of the mainstream news. For example the smear campaign on Corbyn as one example which deliberately was done to discredit his image rather than to actually talk about the policies of Labour. And no, I don't think the Canary is where people should go for their source of neutral news. But it does well to counter the balance on smear campaigns against Labour from the mainstream media, for which there is an overwhelming majority supporting the Tories.
 
The Observer:
"Discredited, humiliated, diminished: May has lost credibility and leverage in her party, her country and across Europe. Where there was respect, there is ridicule; where there was strength, there is weakness; where there was self-assurance, there is doubt. She looks too weak to deliver her manifesto, too vulnerable to tackle dissent and too enfeebled to lead Britain. It is impossible to see her having the influence, authority or credibility to serve her country."
 
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