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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Dolph said:
How would electoral reform help? The parliament would still be hung, and that's the problem.
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Because maybe we wouldn't be hung up on the idea that one group have to be able to always get their own way for Parliament to work.

A hung parliament is only a 'problem' because we make it one.
 
Which party have talked the population into hating the EU. Which leader offered a referendum for his own political gain. Which politicians jump out of the boat when Brexit became a reality leaving May to get it. Who called the election and ran a negative and poor campaign. Yeh, blame Labour
 
Arthur Hucksake said:
I'm a proud idiot.

Wanted May gone any means possible. I absolutely loathe everything she wants to do. Snoopers charter, human rights act, internet nonsense, ruining wheat fields.
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This unlike what dolph and others say, this is not even close to the worse outcome that could have happened. That would have been May winning by a landslide and a hard brexit. Which would have set us back many decades.

its also not just about brexit, what May was trying to do is extremely worrying, anti democratic and very authoritarian.
 
Dolph said:
How would electoral reform help? The parliament would still be hung, and that's the problem.

And you can blame the electorate, they are the ones who deliver the results, not the parties. The problem is voters are dumb and don't think through the consequences of what they do, or whether what they are allegedly voting for is actually deliverable.

Regardless of whether you support labour, the conservatives, or another party, this outcome is bad for the UK and dramatically increases the chances of a bad Brexit deal.
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Hung parliament is a good thing if you have a more representative system as it makes forming a coalition easier. Coalition is a good this as it leads to more representative government, engages the electorate and makes them feel like their votes actually count.
 
CapitalOne said:
What do you mean "now"?? The result is a reaction against continued austerity, hard brexit and a joke of a Tory leadership and cabinet.
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I think you're right about austerity and the joke of Tory leadership, but not Brexit. The wheels only came off when campaigning began. Before that, the public were buying the May Brexit stance. Its only when she stepped out of the shadows and became utterly exposed on the campaign trail did things begin to dive south.

You think all of those ex Labour voters who were voting UKIP still don't have concerns about immigration? That concern will still be there.
 
Time for the Queen to step in and tell the whole bunch of crooks to **** off back under the rocks from which they crawled.
 
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