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Labour wins majority in UK General Elections as Tories lose two-thirds of seats
(www.theguardian.com)
Now kill Brexit!
this post was submitted on 05 Jul 2024
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How do you convince the EU to let us back in?
We'll need a couple of Labour terms before they'll answer the phone.
EU demands are the easy part. It's rather obvious what they would be. Something along the lines of: 'The UK can rejoin at any time, but without all the special treatment it has been receiving.'
Try to convince the people that's good. Will another referendum still be in favour of rejoining, if you have to accept the Euro, new immigration laws, maybe the metric system and other standards?
I have some doubts there.
Among smaller parties, the Liberal Democrats have gained over 60 seats, and Reform, the Greens and Plaid Cymru have also gained seats. Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, now contesting as an independent, retained Islington North. Labour lost another three seats to independents who ran against its inaction on Palestine. The SNP and DUP suffered big losses, while Sinn Fein's fortunes seem to have remained unchanged.
Last I checked ~18:00BST
Party Seats Votes %
Lab 412 9,725,117 33.8
Con 121 6,824,610 23.7
Reform 5 4,103,727 14.3
Lib Dem 71 3,501,004 12.2
Green 4 1,941,220 6.8
Indep. 7 841,835 2.9
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I am personally glad that the next government is not going to be stuffed full with bigoted nationalists from Reform. I can’t help but marvel though at how wonky the system of voting is that let the Lib Dem’s get an order of magnitude more seats than Reform with 600k fewer votes. Reform got just under half Labour’s vote share and only slightly over 1% of their seats.
Is jeremy corbyn considered to the left of the Labour party?