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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It's ****ing hilarious.
I honestly don't know what has happened to the UK in the last few years.
When is someone going to get a grip, knee jerk, emotional nonsense has wrecked the EU relationship, wrecked this government unnecessaryly. It's embarrassing explaining the British electoral system. Somone get a grip and make something happen
 
dalehitchy1 said:
this election has been full of irony
  • Calls someone a terrorist sympathizer for 2 years and then gets into bed with a terrorist sympathiser
  • No money tree and now apparently getting a magic money tree to reverse austerity
  • People saying labour bribes the young and now may is bribing everyone else
  • Voters saying Tories are good with the economy but now they are reversing, spending and now getting into coalition with a party that will demand more money / project to NI
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So much this. No money here, but May will suddenly find a magic money tree for Foster to carry back to NI.
 
Efour said:
It's ****ing hilarious.
I honestly don't know what has happened to the UK in the last few years.
When is someone going to get a grip, knee jerk, emotional nonsense has wrecked the EU relationship, wrecked this government unnecessaryly. It's embarrassing explaining the British electoral system. Somone get a grip and make something happen
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Its doubly sad because Europe appears to be on the cusp of a bit of a bounce with Macron pushing reform and Merkel shaking off the emerging right. It seems the only place that has failed so far is us and the US :(
 
Uriel said:
The erosion of retirement is going to become a party political issue sooner or later.

It's not my top priority but if a party wanted to legislate for no further rise in state pension age (or even to lock at 65) and put it in their manifesto, I'd be interested.
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No state pension age rise beyond 65? Only if we also commit to euthanising everyone at 75.
 
Do they share the deal details that's occurred between the tories and DUP?

I think it would be extremely unfair ethically wrong if the deal is kept secret.

It would be interesting to get down to the nitty gritty bits and see how much money NI would gain from the deal.
 
Efour said:
It's ****ing hilarious.
I honestly don't know what has happened to the UK in the last few years.
When is someone going to get a grip, knee jerk, emotional nonsense has wrecked the EU relationship, wrecked this government unnecessaryly. It's embarrassing explaining the British electoral system. Somone get a grip and make something happen
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No it's not - calm down. it's a perfectly sensible electoral system that has produced an outcome that we're just not used to - that's all. We will cope with this outcome and we will go on to thrive once free of the burdensome, unnecessary and largely pointless EU regulations.

dalehitchy1 said:
Do they share the deal details that's occurred between the tories and DUP?

I think it would be extremely unfair ethically wrong if the deal is kept secret.

It would be interesting to get down to the nitty gritty bits and see how much money NI would gain from the deal.
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It'll all be set out in the Queen's Speech, once the ink has dried.
 
LOAM said:
That's about the gist of it. If you think about it, its the only real option because if they start making legacy demands such as immunity to loyalists for historical "crimes" then its all going to go south fast. They have already said that their policies are devolved anyway and they have no interest in seeing them expand to the mainland. Its clear that a massive ££££££££ investment will be outgoing, how ironic.
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NI already as the highest per person spend of any region in the UK

http://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN04033/SN04033.pdf

and now they are going to demand more, and people whinge about Scotland wanting more (albeit they are 2nd highest already). So May will recklessly spend money in Northern Ireland for her own lustful power reasons and people still think this is strong and stable. Give me a ******* break. Someone with a pair of balls in the Tory party need to do a Brutus on her and bury a hatchet between her shoulder blades now.
 
scorza said:
No it's not - calm down. it's a perfectly sensible electoral system that has produced an outcome that we're just not used to - that's all. We will cope with this outcome and we will go on to thrive once free of the burdensome, unnecessary and largely pointless EU regulations.
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It's a farce when the fptp constituency system generates a result so far removed from the popular vote.
 
VincentHanna said:
Name me 20 which harm us economically.
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bananas, soemthing about tree fiddy , rights for workers - because they harm the rich barons due to stopping them from exploiting their serfs. Hold on....... let me just pop over the news agents to get a copy of the Daily Heil and i'll come back with some more bull ****
 
DrToffnar said:
I'm increasingly finding that is Scorza think's it's ok, it really, REALLY isn't...
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you only just worked that out............... welcome to GD you won;t find a more wretched hive of Daily Mail and Sun readers any where in the galaxy, so just watch your step.........................
 
Vonhelmet said:
No state pension age rise beyond 65? Only if we also commit to euthanising everyone at 75.
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If the elderly are so wise and experienced, we could offer to employ them in non-physical jobs (i.e. civil service) from 65 to 75 as a stop gap measure, maybe on a part time basis that would be the equivalent of the state pension.
 
wildman said:
you only just worked that out............... welcome to GD you won;t find a more wretched hive of Daily Mail and Sun readers any where in the galaxy, so just watch your step.........................
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I don't know, a lot of them seem to have lost the urge to defend the current S̶t̶r̶o̶n̶g̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶S̶t̶a̶b̶l̶e̶ situation...
 
DrToffnar said:
I'm increasingly finding that if Scorza think's it's ok, it really, REALLY isn't...
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A party would do well to adopt it as policy - i.e. "We'll do the opposite of whatever Scorza thinks". Increasingly applies to L@br@t as well.
 
I'm starting to think a deep association with the DUP is going to be a really bad thing

Sources at the DUP said their fierce opposition to the Labour leader – given his IRA sympathies – was a key factor in the talks with the Tories.

Asked how long the "confidence and supply" arrangement could stay in place, the source said: “For as long as Jeremy Corbyn is leader of the Labour Party.”
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So the main criterion for the DUP supporting the Conservatives, is because the Conservatives are on the other side of the table from JC, who has expressed sympathy with SF and the IRA.

So the basis of the keystone of our government relies on sectarian differences in NI. That is a ******* terrible position.

Nothwithstanding condemnation of abhorrent acts on both sides of the sectarian divide, the UK absolutely needs to be neutral on this, and the above is a direct contradiction.
 
John Major's not happy with the Con/Dup tie up either...
http://news.sky.com/story/live-dup-leader-foster-in-westminster-for-talks-with-may-10913086

Especially when you have things like this:

''After Arlene Foster and her DUP MPs gathered for photos in Westminster, she said: "The future's bright."

Ian Paisley Jr then quipped: "The future's orange."

As Sky's Ireland Correspondent David Blevins notes, the remark will be seen as a light-hearted quip by unionists, but those of a nationalist persuasion aren't likely to see it as such.''
 
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