@Northerner Labour held on in Lancaster and Fleetwood

I'm off to bed. Thanks for the discussion. I love Scotland and I wish you all well. Goodnight..

@Regfries goodnight and thanks for your participation

@Regfries Good talking to you. Goodnight.

@SW-User she will have to suck it up lol

@SW-User It's hard to say. Yes it will be a problem but if Boris keeps denying it then it also kinda plays into her hands. It might get more people on board. I've been thinking if it keeps up eventually we just have to hold one and if the UK government does what Spain did then that will only help us.

Also even if we hold the balance of power and we have an arrangement with Corbyn it could be bad for us. Having a referendum when Corbyn is in government means we can't go on about Tory governments and left wingers might be more likely to say no.

So really there's problems and advantages either way. Just need as many seats as we can get so it's harder to deny.

@Nyloncapes Well it's that attitude that makes people more likely to want out.

@walabby As I have said to others, I have no ideological objection to self-determination. There'll be a united Ireland well before the people of Scotland will vote to leave Nanny.... Once the UK is out of the EU and the Scots have to face the reality that they are not going to have some VIP pass to join the EU as a sovereign state the majority will not take that risk. Scotland does not have sufficient GDP to keep them in the manner they want to be kept.

@ArtieKat That could well be true. Time will tell... I just hope that whatever happens is not too hard on people..

@walabby I sincerely believe that Trump's statement that the way is now clear for a substantial trade deal between the UK and the US wiil prove to be true; I also see increased trading opportunities between the UK and Australasia.

We can but wait and see.

@SW-User Do it again in five years.When the election will hopefully be about domestic issues.The Valleys remain red.

@TheSirfurryanimalWales who will lead Labour in 5 years time?

@SW-User I have no idea.No Blairs on the horizon.The real problem is Scotland.As long as the SNP retain their position Labour cannot win an Election.They had the highest percentage of the vote in Wales despite losing six seats.

@Yulianna @SW-User
a typical nice day in Wales

@TheSirfurryanimalWales 🤣

@Yulianna Of course! 🤗😘

@ArtieKat makes sense.. I struggle with it.. it feels like they are all useless tossers and I can't say I support any of them.. so it was tough voting.. and I really didn't want to .. but I am obedient like that

@Adaydreambeliever I don't even have any snacks!

@Adaydreambeliever I voted at lunch time and for soaked

@SW-User thanks for hosting sorry but I need my 8 hours sleep or I'm done for these days so I didn't contribute much.

@SW-User I'm impressed! Well done you for doing this. Inspired 👏

@SW-User Yep :-)

@SW-User how could you trust Corbyn , MC Donnell and Abbott to run this country and its security

@SW-User So in a week?

@thatscottishguy maybe 2024

@SW-User an excellent night democracy has been restored. Now we just need to stop another Indyref here in Scotland.
SNP got 45 percent of the vote but 55 percent voted against Indyref 2

@ChampagneAngel Interesting choice of drinks ...

@Regfries It's champagne in case anyone's interested lol

@SW-User Jo Swindle has already applied to the Supreme Court for a re-run of the whole election because she doesn't like the result!

@SW-User tottally agree was about brexit, theresa was weak spineless and an embarressment

@OzDiver a high turnout is Labour Brexit seats could also be to Boris's advantage

@SW-User Yes, that is really likely

@SW-User Momentum (I refuse to call them Labour) are driving many working people into the arms of the Tories.

@Northerner What a shame... 🤣🤣🤣

@TheSirfurryanimalWales Yass join us!😂 Need out of this awful union.

@thatscottishguy I agree with you for once.

@TheSirfurryanimalWales I thought we agreed pretty often as well😂.

@SW-User she has crashed on every debate, she her on peston last night lets hope boris gets msjority and can lock her in tower of london we could have vote on that , democracy lol ,

@Nyloncapes she started the campaign by saying she wanted to be the next PM and maybe doesn't realise she's in a fight to save her seat

@SW-User You might be right about her not realising because she didn't attend the hustings. Ridiculous after her whole #debateher thing.

@walabby it has .. but essentially is why we've had our 3rd general election in less than 5 years

@thatscottishguy That's a bit too scary for me, I might go to bed.

@thatscottishguy I don't want to see that

@Nyloncapes labour won't accept that he was unelectable

@SW-User When the Blythe Valley result, my mother's reaction was 'Goodness: holy F**k' lol. I'll remember it in the same way - perhaps how older Labour voters remember the Tories losing (especially Michael Portillo) in 1997.

@ChampagneAngel many top Tories lost their seats in '97 in the labour landslide

@SW-User was

@SW-User The fact that Blair is the only Labour leader to have been elected in Donkeys.......

@ArtieKat Means nothing now. That kind of politics is finished. Both sides need represented now and not just the right.

@SW-User I can't wait to see her lose it.

@thatscottishguy Same here she has had her 15 minutes of fame

@TheSirfurryanimalWales Goodnight, mate

@TheSirfurryanimalWales when she took over every single person working in my family (I was at school) lost their jobs. I pray the same does not happen to my family this time.

@SW-User i was unemployed for five years under her.Enough said.

@Nyloncapes I'm sure he's gone Brexit Party ;)

@KatyB Jonathan Powell was Tony Blair's Chief Of Staff - very effective!

@ArtieKat Yes, of course. I knew I had seen his face before. Oh, speaking of the war criminals staff, have you seen Alistair Campbell getting owned by Piers Morgan this morning?

[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cdi9oWWEk_w]

@ChampagneAngel 9 years of austerity the appalling record of May a leader with a track record of being incapable of not lying including to the Queen in his first few weeks in power and they win a landslide.... 🤔 Other than buggering the queen at the state opening I have to say they look currently untouchable like the Thatcher years as she decimated many industries putting thousands & thousands out of work and working class tory voters continued to support her for a few tax breaks and cheap shares in businesses they effectively already owned.

@ChampagneAngel Andrew is on the roll, the guy is saying some weird stuff.

@ChampagneAngel Andrew Neil is formiddable

@SW-User Gillingham & Rainham Conservative hold. I could have predicted that on day one of the campaign.
Overall. I think majority will be slightly lower than predicted somewhere in the 50s.

@SW-User Well... The annalysis have to be made in the following the weeks, and the results still have to come in. But if labour fails, if that happens. And it's because of Brexit (if that is the case)... then when the next election comes over, it can catch the votes back if it has a solid program. Since I hope Brexit is dealt with by then.

@SW-User Yes-they need to find another Blair.

@TheSirfurryanimalWales but the membership don't want one. They want Jeremy. Sdp like spilt? Maybe.

@KatyB the red wall in the North has crumbled

@SW-User Thank the Lord!! Hooefully this is the end for Labour. They haven't been for the working man/woman/variable other for decades!!!

@SW-User [quote] Result will be result.[/quote] So true!

@SW-User welcome hun good to have you here

@ArtieKat night Ant and thanks for joining in xxx

@SW-User :-)

@SW-User all of them MPs who have done everything possible to stop him and joked about him losing six votes in parliament not laughing now

@ArtieKat and Corbyn instead of Yvette Cooper

@ArtieKat Its went tits up when he tried to eat that bacon butty...

@ArtieKat just about to have a Malibay 😂 xxx

@SW-User Hard to say with polls giving some pretty varied results. What seems a guarantee is the SNP will get at least 40 seats but where in the 40s doesn't seem clear.

Labour might lose a couple but since at one point they were tipped to be pretty much wiped out that's good for them.

Seat I'm most interested in is East Dunbartonshire where hopefully Swinson will lose her seat. Also Ochill and South Pershire, and Hamilton East and Lanark where the SNP and Tories are neck and neck.

@KatyB yes taken a traditional labour seat aahh the supporters are jumping ship

@SW-User It's a good thing that you are the moderator of this thread!

@ArtieKat lol 😂

Any predictions for tonight Ant? xxx

@SW-User Predictions? No, not really. The exit polls should give a reasonable indication.... I hope that my vote counts and that squeaky Angela Eagle is booted out

@ArtieKat Think I woke the neighbours celebrating.

@thatscottishguy had a feeling she wouldn't win

@SW-User I know Swinson is a disaster but the work Amy Callaghan put in to beat a party leader with all the tv coverage was fantastic. Deserves so much credit.