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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Uther said:
I don't know, a lot of them seem to have lost the urge to defend the current S̶t̶r̶o̶n̶g̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶S̶t̶a̶b̶l̶e̶ situation...
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Nobody can defend this situation. The Conservatives and their political in-fighting has totally screwed over the interests of the UK in the past few years.

Even if you buy into the dream that leaving the EU will ultimately be not as bad as being in it, the utter incompetence and farcical way it has been handled, with no plans in place, and Theresa May ballsing up a snap election AFTER triggering the time-limited exit process....it's utterly indefensible. They are manifestly incompetent, not capable of putting the interests of the UK and it's people before their own little games.
 
Yeah John Major makes a good point that the DUP would be likely to back a queen's speech with or without a deal, as they'll do anything to stop JC getting power. So why not run a minority and not have to make promises and guarantees to DUP and risk destabilising the peace process.

Really looks like there's a danger of things being rushed through and not thought about fully.

That future's orange comment is particularly stupid, using this deal as a time to quip about your sectarian ambitions is disgusting.
 
Trifid said:
So for members of the public who are not happy with this deal, what (political) options are there to stop it?
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Learn to suck it up tbh - it's democracy, sometimes you don't get what you want. I'm not particularly happy with the outcome of the election either, what options have I got to try and change 50 Labour MPs into Conservative ones?
 
mid_gen said:
Nobody can defend this situation. The Conservatives and their political in-fighting has totally screwed over the interests of the UK in the past few years.

Even if you buy into the dream that leaving the EU will ultimately be not as bad as being in it, the utter incompetence and farcical way it has been handled, with no plans in place, and Theresa May ballsing up a snap election AFTER triggering the time-limited exit process....it's utterly indefensible. They are manifestly incompetent, not capable of putting the interests of the UK and it's people before their own little games.
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This is pretty much on the nose.

Tories have been acting purely in their own interests for some time. Amazing that they're still in government. Albeit barely.
 
scorza said:
Learn to suck it up tbh - it's democracy, sometimes you don't get what you want. I'm not particularly happy with the outcome of the election either, what options have I got to try and change 50 Labour MPs into Conservative ones?
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This is way beyond getting the wrong party in power.
 
mid_gen said:
Nobody can defend this situation. The Conservatives and their political in-fighting has totally screwed over the interests of the UK in the past few years.

Even if you buy into the dream that leaving the EU will ultimately be not as bad as being in it, the utter incompetence and farcical way it has been handled, with no plans in place, and Theresa May ballsing up a snap election AFTER triggering the time-limited exit process....it's utterly indefensible. They are manifestly incompetent, not capable of putting the interests of the UK and it's people before their own little games.
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She called the snap election in the hope of a triple whammy:

1) it would finish Corbyn and reduce Labour to major infighting/breakaway Blair Labour and Socialist Labour

2) it would break or at least severely disrupt the SNP plans of another referendum. This looks potentially like its achieved

3) would solidify the tories in getting the Brexit based on what the referendum decided.

Other things included a reshuffle and a confirmation of austerity politics.
 
cheesyboy said:
This is pretty much on the nose.

Tories have been acting purely in their own interests for some time. Amazing that they're still in government. Albeit barely.
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Glad someone is agreeing on this thread as I've been saying this for a while on this thread but many disagreed.

Even as a left leaning voter I have more respect for ukip as they believe what THEY are doing is in the national interest (although I disagree with what they put forward is the correct path)

The tories however.... Twice they have put party before country and twice they have screwed up big time. How they are still in power I dont know. They are really the most selfish party in the whole of the UK.
 
Just so we're clear, the DUP spent £1.15 billion on a scam, the UK has said it would pay £600 million, leaving Stormont (which isnt even active right now, because the horrid lying "person" leading the DUP wont step aside for a moment) with its ~£400 million debt.

The UK taxpayer is now being explicitly offended by Stormont not paying their way, wasting £600 million of an austere UK taxpayer budget and now the scammers are are in national power?

Gee, not very Unionist or conservative of the "certain" people.
 
Trifid said:
So for members of the public who are not happy with this deal, what (political) options are there to stop it?
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Anarchy in the UK. There is no option unless you want to patiently sit it out until May gets toppled or take direct action and start smashing the gaf up in protest that our government is getting into bed with religious zealot nut jobs.
 
Trifid said:
This is way beyond getting the wrong party in power.
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Thought it was exactly about that - you don't like the idea of the DUP working with the government. Well hard cheese, the election delivered 318 seats for the Conservatives and 10 for the DUP which is enough for a government - that's called democracy.
 
Trifid said:
This is way beyond getting the wrong party in power.
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its scorza the only time he ever says anything like that, is when he wants that outcome.

unfortunately not a lot. go sign the petitions. Probably wont do anything, but at least gives some figures behind so they cant say well we didn't know.
Write/talk to your mp, especially if you are in a torie held area.
 
dl8860 said:
That future's orange comment is particularly stupid, using this deal as a time to quip about your sectarian ambitions is disgusting.
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If May continues on this course I give it 6 months before parts o london start getting blown up again by Republicans. This is starting to look very dangerous
 
wildman said:
If May continues on this course I give it 6 months before parts o london start getting blown up again by Republicans. This is starting to look very dangerous
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I certainly think we do risk heightening tensions, but do the IRA and related paramilitaries currently have access to such means? I'm a little ignorant of anything NI, so perhaps they really do?
 
wildman said:
If May continues on this course I give it 6 months before parts o london start getting blown up again by Republicans. This is starting to look very dangerous
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Thought they'd put their arms "beyond use" as part of the Good Friday Agreement. You're basically saying that Sinn Fein IRA have been lying about being committed to peace while they've been part of the NI Assembley - yet still taking their side. Corbyn would be proud of you.
 
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