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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Still think this was interesting

Conservative - Votes - 13,650,900
Democratic Unionist Party - Votes- 292,316
UKIP - Votes - 593,852
Total - 14,537,068

Labour - Votes - 12,858,652
Scottish National Party - Votes - 977,569
Liberal Democrat - Votes - 2,367,048
Green Party - Votes - 524,604
Total - 16,727,873


Be an interesting experiment to see what would happen if we had a PR system for say the next 20 years.
 
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Conservative MP Nigel Evans on the BBC - "This manifesto had too many dashes of arsenic, it was an assault on the people we were looking to vote for us. Theresa May carried out a 'triple assault' on our core voters - the elderly. Reneging on the triple lock, the winter fuel allowance and the dementia tax when it wasnt even necessary. it's been a disaster. We didn't shoot ourselves in the foot, we shot ourselves in the head."

This is the thing i don't understand, she had to do **** all, all she had to do is re-release the 2015 manifesto and it was in the bag. Why the hell did she started to screw around with the core voters?
 
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I'm by no means 'young', but I can totally understand why young people these days have had enough of being shafted. Housing, education, healthcare - do you really see these becoming more affordable for your average 21 year-old under May? Then throw in the fact that we've just voted to remove a big opportunity of jobs in Europe, etc and you'll start to see why the 'young vote' has gone in the direction of change.

Trying to pass young voters off as all being influenced by celebs and 'kool' is patronising to a level of stupidity. It's almost as bad as trying to claim that all Labour voters are work-shy benefit claimants.
Corbyn's manifesto was a pipe dream - I doubt he'd actually be able to deliver 5% of it - but at least it offered hope to people that things were going to get better. The Conservative manifesto is probably very sensible from a budgetary point of view, but not very inspiring. Like I said earlier, the British people have decided that they'd prefer politicians who lie to them and tell them everything's going to be OK, over honest ones who tell them of the necessary difficult decisions that must made.
 
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For clarity I voted concervatives, I did so purely on brexit knowing full well a corbyn brexit will leave us bent over in Europe,


Conservatives called the referendum
PM resigns
New PM calls for hard Brexit and stability needed
New PM calls GE despite spouting it's a time where the country needs stability and leadership
Does knaff all in campaign and assumes tories will strengthen their position
Loses various seats and now joining alliance with DUP

Not to mention all TM has done is said she is the person to pull us through brexit, though in the last few weeks she's done nothing to convince us that she's fit for the job, just countless exclamations, including the last 7 years failing to do the job she was assigned to do.

Either way, Europe have bent us over already.
 
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So we have a coalition government

No we don't, it's actually an important point.

We have a minority Conservative Govt being propped up on a day by day, policy by policy basis by the DUP - quite different to a coalition Govt.

On the news it's saying the DUP see this as a temporary measure as they don't see May lasting past the summer and they are waiting to see who her replacement is
 
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Maybe the streets will be running around with UDA/UXX people for the next 10 years or so, the next batch of gansters/haters. Be the next group in the chain to be socialised. #dumpingground
 
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Like I said earlier, the British people have decided that they'd prefer politicians who lie to them and tell them everything's going to be OK, over honest ones who tell them of the necessary difficult decisions that must made.
The Brexit campaign winning certainly taught us that.
 
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This is the thing i don't understand, she had to do **** all, all she had to do is re-release the 2015 manifesto and it was in the bag. Why the hell did she started to screw around with the core voters?

Because she knows Brexit is going to be a disaster for this country and didn't want to holding the bomb when the music stops
 
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Corbyn's manifesto was a pipe dream - I doubt he'd actually be able to deliver 5% of it - but at least it offered hope to people that things were going to get better. The Conservative manifesto is probably very sensible from a budgetary point of view, but not very inspiring. Like I said earlier, the British people have decided that they'd prefer politicians who lie to them and tell them everything's going to be OK, over honest ones who tell them of the necessary difficult decisions that must made.
This is pretty much the whole thing g summed up. Times are hard, will be harder, that's the choice that was made. People seem to still think we can go on as usual when we can't, it's a new time and new challenges are here, that is what we should be looking at.

Corbyn lied through his teeth and made promises that are just ridiculous. Almost insulting.
 
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Be interesting to see how May handles this - people like that tend to lash out and become vindictive when things don't go their way.
 
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This is the thing i don't understand, she had to do **** all, all she had to do is re-release the 2015 manifesto and it was in the bag. Why the hell did she started to screw around with the core voters?

Her team of advisers should be down the job centre for their performance!
 
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