General election 2019: Boris Johnson criticised over reaction to sick boy image.

[corsechris]

....and....relax.

 

 Anyone else spotted the sterling exchange rate since the result was announced?

[Alan France]

Good result and no more speeches from Grieve, Soubry, Wollaston, Gyimah, Gauke, Chuka and Bercow.

 

Well done Boris, took a big risk, a true leader. Once again the cleverest man in the room is underestimated.

 

JC will be pleased, he can go back to protest groups.

[Nick Algar - Competition Secretary]

3 hours ago, corsechris said:

....and....relax.

 

 Anyone else spotted the sterling exchange rate since the result was announced?

 

Sterling jumped up straight away, which is good news. Trump has come on saying he will give the UK a great trade deal. The EU leaders were indicating they prefered a Boris win if only so that they had certainty, well they have definately got that and then some. Maybe a bit more than they wanted, he can now play a bit more hard ball with them. It's going to be interesting to see what happens. Of course we have never seen Boris actually lead, now is his chance, let's hope he does a good job. 

 

 

[DonPeffers]

BREAKING NEWS.

 

Labour's Jonathan Ashworth   wasn't    "joshing around" in the leaked conversation "it's dire for Labour".

 

LibDem leader Jo Swinson won't be PM,  nor be her Party leader going forward, nor get her finger on the nuclear button, nor sit as a Westminster MP as she lost her seat last night.

[DonPeffers]

The fall of the defectors:-

 

13 Dec 2019  https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/dec/13/independent-ex-mps-who-left-labour-and-tories-fail-to-win

 

Headline---Independent ex-MPs who left Labour and Tories fail to win.

 

"The four who stood for the Independent Group for Change – the former Conservative MP Anna Soubry, and the former Labour MPs Gavin Shuker, Chris Leslie and Mike Gapes – all lost their seats.

Amid a sweep of Tory gains, the former Conservative ministers David Gauke, Dominic Grieve and Anne Milton, all of whom stood as independents after they had the whip removed for voting in parliament to a block a no-deal Brexit, also lost their seats.

The veteran politician Frank Field, who resigned from Labour this summer, lost in Birkenhead. The former Labour MPs who joined the Liberal Democrats – Chuka Umunna, Luciana Berger and Angela Smith – and former Tories to join the party – Sarah Wollaston, Sam Gyimah, Phillip Lee and Antoinette Sandbach – all failed to win".

[Man On The Clapham Omnibus]

• I'm sorry about Luciana Berger, she was treated very badly by the Corbyn mob. The rest? The modern expression is 'meh'

[DonPeffers]

Ruth Davidson won’t have to swim naked in Loch Ness after General Election bet.

 

13 Dec 2019   https://metro.co.uk/2019/12/13/ruth-davidson-wont-swim-naked-loch-ness-general-election-bet-11894411/

 

"Ruth Davidson, 41, won’t have to go skinny dipping in Loch Ness as promised if the Scottish National Party managed to bag 50 seats or more. She got pretty close to having to fulfil her promise after Nicola Sturgeon’s party gained 13 seats, bringing its total number to 48".

 

 

 

 

[Stuart]

I've read some right nonsense on Facebook today though.  Ranging from 'everyone who voted Tory must be stupid' which is idiotic but relatively harmless, to the  'labour dynasties who voted Tory are deeply bigoted people', which is offensive.  But the losers' view in general does seem to be that it was the fault of the electorate not the fault of the Labour party.  The joys of democracy in this social media world. 

[Blatman]

There is an interesting analysis of "the social media effect" on the BBC. It seems that Labour and the Lib-Dems outspent the Tories on targeted advertising. The Tories spent less but used banner ads. The analysis also threw a lot of mud at Twitter. Well worth a read...

Me, I don't use Facebook or Twitter. Both my friends have my phone number and know where I live...  

[Stuart]

Blatters, as Jeremy Clarkson said "I told my daughter that and she immediately went online and told 600 of her very closest friends' 😃

[CraigHew]

There will be lots of people who didn't like the result, perhaps they want another election to be sure?

 

Time to move on...

 

We will leave the EU now.

Scotland will not be annexed.

 

Time for our leaders to step up...

[Blatman]

On 14/12/2019 at 10:27, CraigHew said:

There will be lots of people who didn't like the result, perhaps they want another election to be sure?

 

Swinson lost by less than 48/52 yet surprisingly didn't call for a recount. 48/52 is a 4% difference. The Lib-Dems share was down 3.8% which according to all remainers for the last 3 years is invalid, and that's before we get to the actual majority which was 149. Surely that's as good as a win...

                

[CraigHew]

4 hours ago, Blatman said:

 

Swinson lost by less than 48/52 yet surprisingly didn't call for a recount. 48/52 is a 4% difference. The Lib-Dems share was down 3.8% which according to all remainers for the last 3 years is invalid, and that's before we get to the actual majority which was 149. Surely that's as good as a win...

                

 

@Blatman Maybe all that head banging has worked something loose.

 

The difference is actually 8%

[Blatman]

8 hours ago, CraigHew said:

Maybe all that head banging has worked something loose.

48/52 is definitely 4%

The Lib-Dem share of the vote definitely went down 3.8%. Yes the swing to the SNP may have been 8% but that wasn't the number that fitted my point...

Or I don't understand what I am looking at...

 

 

[Stuart]

52 divided by 48 = 108.33%.  So 8.33% more people voted to leave than to remain