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    Election news latest: Labour set for biggest majority in almost 200 years, polls show
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    Election news latest: Labour set for biggest majority in almost 200 years, polls show

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    1. AndyTheSane on

      Can we wait until the exit polls at least? I mean, I’d love to see the Tories to be reduced to double digit seats with the lib dems as the official opposition, but I remember 1992.. and 2015..

    2. jammy_b on

      Labour getting 70% of the seats with 38% of the vote is an absolute travesty of democracy.

    3. my_first_rodeo on

      FPTP also makes sense from the perspective of each local area sending their local representative to parliament

      Whether 51% of the vote or 99%, my local area decided to elect Gertrude to go and speak for us down in London

      Might not quite work like that, but I like the ethos

    4. Cute_Ad_9730 on

      The leafleting through the door in my area (south Devon/south hams) by the Conservative Party candidate was ridiculous and depressing. The first one read like a primary school book with constant repetition of of his name in bold letters next to claims that ‘he works hard’, ‘he’s a friend to farmers’, he supports the community’ etc. No policy details at all. The next leaflet was a photograph of a personal letter in cursive pretending to be an individual message, again claiming what a great, hardworking pillar of the community he was without any policy details, apologies or solutions. Blatant baseless coercion to the elderly voters who aren’t capable of making an informed decision. Anthony Mangnall I hope you get kicked out on your ass along with the rest of your trash.

    5. MrPuddington2 on

      The prediction for the popular vote seems to hover around 40% – that is not even a majority, and it is only a clear plurality because the Conservative vote is split.

      I am sure there have been more decisive popular votes in the past.

    6. LJ-696 on

      Think I will wait until the lady sings.

      Not being funny or anything, but you guys(collectively as a nation) tend to like a good bit of shooting in one’s own foot.

    7. Solidus27 on

      We literally have to wait less than 5 hours for the exit polls lmao

      Unless the real motive behind these ‘polls’ is not prediction? 🤔

    8. PartTimeMancunian on

      If the Conservatives win again this time then the process needs a reformation in how the winner is chosen, none of this “Yeah we got less votes but we still won” nonsense.

      It should be as simple as……the winner is the one with the most votes surely?!

    9. moham225 on

      I hope it ends up in a hung parliament and labour really really has to work to pass legislation.

    10. McFry- on

      And it’s zero to do with Kier Starmer, and all to do with how shite Tory rule has been. He’s gona be acting like he’s a hero

    11. Gooner-Astronomer749 on

      Thats not because people love Labour it’s because the Tories have been in power for 14 years and with Boris, Truss and now Sunhak they are a complete joke. Micheal Howard could have run a better campaign than Rishi. 

    12. GrandDukeOfNowhere on

      1832 was the year of the great reform act, IE the first time more than half the adult male population were eligible to vote

    13. bananablegh on

      The biggest majority by ANY party. The headline makes it sound like it’s just Labour. Labour didn’t exist 200 years ago.

    14. NanoChainedChromium on

      It would be darkly funny if it turns out all the Labour voters didnt bother voting because “We win for sure” and the Tories win in a landslide, to fully run your country into the ground. At this point i often feel polls are worth pretty much nothing.

    15. simondrawer on

      My biggest fear is that Lib Dems are only ahead of the Tories by a margin small enough for Nigel to prop up the Tories in opposition. If there is a handful of seats in it you know that Nigel will happily take a shadow cabinet position and all the showboating that entails in return for his handful of seats.

    16. magicwilliams on

      >Labour set for biggest majority in almost 200 years, polls show

      Labour has been slated to win its largest majority since 1832

      Has the author of this piece confused the Labour Party with the Whigs? The Labour Party didn’t even exist in 1832.

    17. Old-Amphibian416 on

      Be interesting to see how Labour govern because they’ll have a whopping majority but will suffer from massive indifference from the public.

    18. TarkyMlarky420 on

      Isn’t this the same headline that happens every time, and every time Tories win.

    19. FartingBob on

      Could also be the biggest swing of all time, currently held by the 1931 election which went from a big labour majority to a big tory one. 14% swing. Only other ones above 10% are 1945 and 1997. Its very rare for there to be more than 5% swing in popular vote.

      The 431 seats that this particular poll is talking about would also be a record, although in the past there were fewer overall seats so its not directly comparable.

      I suspect they wont quite reach all time records, tories do better than polling suggests most times. But still, its a thumping.

    20. AllAboutAbi on

      It is a shame that the Labour party which is set to win this majority isn’t the one that I was once mostly alright with.

    21. baked-stonewater on

      3 seats for reform is still three too many but given what’s going on in France and Germany – it’s nice to see that the good people of the UK and generally not interested in russian state sponsored right wing extremists.