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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Ridiculous i know. Its not about fat or thin, right or left.

It should be about what is good for not just the country but everyone:

The only thing that matters is red vs green.








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Honestly, with the Labour party on a leftist ticket, there's basically no point in the Lib Dems. And I say that as someone who would, by default, be a LD voter prior to Corbyn taking the top job at Labour.
 
cheesyboy said:
Honestly, with the Labour party on a leftist ticket, there's basically no point in the Lib Dems. And I say that as someone who would, by default, be a LD voter prior to Corbyn taking the top job at Labour.
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Lib Dems have never been a leftist party though - they've always tried to occupy the centre ground between the Conservatives and Labour.
 
CREATIVE!11 said:
Actually truth be told, it's more right wing lunatics crying and throwing around MUH SOCIALISM, MUH MARXISM.

Basically they sound like a 12 year old who has just ventured onto the internet and read too much /r/the_donald or (insert some other half baked toxic right wing blog).
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As a Right Wing person, I'm fairly certain I've done none of this and I've never read /r/the_donald, either.
 
scorza said:
Lib Dems have never been a leftist party though - they've always tried to occupy the centre ground between the Conservatives and Labour.
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Not in my voting lifetime (2000 onwards). Tories centre-right, Labour centre/centre-right and LD centre-left. Especially on social issues.
 
cheesyboy said:
Not in my voting lifetime (2000 onwards). Tories centre-right, Labour centre/centre-right and LD centre-left. Especially on social issues.
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Lib Dems have always sprawled across both centre-left and right some policies from each side in my experience - they've meandered slightly left and right at times a little more but nothing that significant. A far better option in going full left IMO.
 
cheesyboy said:
Not in my voting lifetime (2000 onwards). Tories centre-right, Labour centre/centre-right and LD centre-left. Especially on social issues.
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Sorry, but you're mistaken there, Labour, even under Tony Blair would have to be considered centre-left. It's true that the LDs the most liberal mainstream party in the UK - but liberalism vs. authoritarianism isn't really a left/right issue. On economic policy, which is traditionally left/right, the LDs have always tried to be in the centre - hence why they were so happy to form a coalition with the Conservatives back in 2010. The history of the LDs is that they were born out of a merger between the Liberal Party and the SDLP, who themselves split off from Labour because they were too left-wing for them in those days.
 
wildman said:
who would be running point for the Cons then ? Johnson is a liability, Hammond is basically a walking *.xls and has the charisma of one, JRM is too high in the Toff stakes, David Davis is likely damaged goods as he was pressing for an election. There are some other back bench hopefuls, but is now the time to try out your super sub ?

Anyway is all a pipe dream because the Libs will not do it
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Gove, 999\1 on betfair, along with many others, imo there are some very big prices there, things can change very quickly in politics :)

https://www.betfair.com/exchange/plus/politics/market/1.131081434
 
wildman said:
who would be running point for the Cons then ? Johnson is a liability, Hammond is basically a walking *.xls and has the charisma of one, JRM is too high in the Toff stakes, David Davis is likely damaged goods as he was pressing for an election. There are some other back bench hopefuls, but is now the time to try out your super sub ?
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I don't know that that has damaged him too much (he seems to be the next best odds after Boris), could easily argue that May's policies then threw away what could have been an easy win - the authoritarian stuff re: the internet, bringing back fox hunting, social care without a cap etc..etc.
 
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