Official UK Election 2017 Thread

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Live results from The Guardian can be seen here

Only 53 out of 650 seats declared at this writing, but Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party is currently leading over Teresa "Maggie 2.0" May's Tories.

Conservative - 19
Labour - 28
LibDems - 0
SNP - 3

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Exit polls suggest Jeremy Corbyn could be Prime Minister

independent.co.uk
Election results: Exit polls suggest Jeremy Corbyn could be Prime Minister as leader of progressive alliance
Ben Kentish


Jeremy Corbyn could be on course to become the next Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, according to the general election exit poll.

The shock poll predicts the Conservatives will fall short of an overall majority, despite beginning the campaign with a huge lead.

As leader of the party that seems certain to win the most seats, Theresa May will have the first opportunity to form a government.

However, should she prove unable to pass key legislation such as a budget or Queen's Speech, Mr Corbyn could be asked by the Queen to attempt to form a government in coalition with the Liberal Democrats, SNP and Greens.

The exit poll suggests such a coalition would have 323 seats, which, if Sinn Fein follows its tradition of not taking its seats in Parliament, would be enough for a tiny majority. In contrast, the Conservatives are predicted to have won 314 seats.

The poll, conducted by election expert Professor John Curtice for the BBC, Sky and ITV, stunned the country by predicting Theresa May's gamble in calling an early election could have backfired.

However, the 2015 exit poll underestimated support for the Conservatives and predicted they would win 15 fewer seats than they actually did. Should that prove to be true again, Ms May would have a majority similar to the one she held before the election.

If the poll is correct, though, Mr Corbyn could find himself set for Number Ten. Labour has ruled out forming a formal coalition but could find itself as the biggest party in an informal "confidence and supply" arrangement in which the other parties support a Labour budget and Queen's Speech but do not formally take part in the government.

The Liberal Democrats have said they will not form any formal coalitions in the case of a hung parliament, while the SNP has said it would be willing to be part of a "progressive coalition".

Nicola Sturgeon, the party's leader, previously told the BBC: “If there was to be a hung Parliament of course we would look to be part of a progressive alliance that pursued progressive policies.”

Former Lib Dem leader Sir Menzies Campbell re-iterated the party's position on Thursday night, telling the BBC: "Tim Farron made it very clear: he said no pact, no deal, no coalition. We’ve had our fingers burned by coalition, I don’t need to tell you that."

"I find it very, very difficult to see how Tim Farron would be able to go back on what he’s previously said and indeed to persuade the membership of the Liberal Democrats that a coalition would be a good idea from our point of view."

Green Party co-leader Caroline Lucas said she would be willing to help support a Labour-led coalition.

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Updated results with 88 of 650 seats reporting...

Conservative - 29
Labour - 47
LibDems - 0
SNP - 7

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263 of 650 seats declared at 9 Jun 03.01 BST

Con - 108 (-3)

Lab - 125 (+12)

LD - 1 (-1)

SNP - 16 (-6)

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Jeremy Corbyn calls on Theresa May to resign....

......as exit polls suggest Conservatives fail to achieve majority
Andrew Griffin
independent.co.uk

Jeremy Corbyn has called on Theresa May to resign.

Ms May should "go and make way for a government that is truly representative of this country", the Labour leader said at his election count. The exit poll and recent results suggest that no party will win a majority in parliament, despite Ms May having called the campaign in an attempt to strengthen her position.

"The prime minister called the election because she wanted a mandate," he said. "Well the mandate she's got is lost Conservative seats, lost votes, lost support and lost confidence. I would have thought that is enough for her to go actually."

Accepting victory after holding Islington North with his biggest ever majority, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said: "Politics has changed. Politics isn't going back into the box where it was before. People have said they have had quite enough of austerity politics."

Just a couple of minutes after Mr Corbyn made the call, Ms May arrived at her own election count. Immediately, journalists asked whether the prime minister would be resigning.

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417 of 650 seats declared at 9 Jun 03.37 BST

Con - 175 (-10)

Lab - 188 (+22)

LD - 8 (+3)

SNP - 28 (-12)

DUP - 10 (+2)

UKIP - 0 (0)

Green - 0 (0)

Others - 8

[Seshmeister]

Corbyn is like a more extreme version of Bernie. He's done a lot better than people expected.

The media have been fucking unbelievably biased against him, all the headlines today were calling him a terrorist because he talked to the IRA 30 years ago. The language was shocking and well done to people ignoring their lies.

[Kristy]

No one cares about this shitty election.

It's a PR stunt.

[Kristy]

Labour wins

Predictable.

[Nickdfresh]

Labour wins

Predictable.

Holy fuck! You really called that! OMG, are you a remote viewer? A soothsayer? Fuck, your prediction of the outcome of the UK election was just creepy!

[ashstralia]

Was that Screaming Lord Such there on stage with Jeremy? Class.

[Seshmeister]

Was that Screaming Lord Such there on stage with Jeremy? Class.

The original founder of the Monster Raving Lunatic Party died a few years ago but his party lives on.

Personally I would have voted for Lord Buckethead...

[vandeleur]

Twitter has been brilliant , my fav tweets :
If you like corbyn so much name two of his albums .
And Crystal Palace denying that Theresa May is on the way ( footy joke)
Although anything with Eddie Hitler as Paul nuttal gets an honourable mention.

Weird election no one wanted any of them and that's what we end up with .
It's simple ,honestly ... appeal to the youth vote and say something about tuition fees , everyone is no old and fucked so say something about NHS. Brexit is so 2016 get over it.

I liked mr fishfingers policies

[vandeleur]

Although that fucking Tory heartland jocktopia stitched us again