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Chris Philp won. Fuck you Croydon South. And all your other compass points too.

The good thing is that these independent pro-Palestine candidates can sort out Gaza/Israel. I think that'll be handy for everyone if they could pick that up.

She's easily the fittest of the political nerd journos.

Cletus is here and the first thing he's done is switch the electric off. Livid. He's much more normal in person, but he CATEGORICALLY could not pass as my twin. CATEGORICALLY.

Just disregard the Truss DOWN post and assume I went very Queer Eye in my commentary on "Sharp"

They've got 4 MPs man. The simple reality is that that just gets you very little exposure in Parliament. Their ability to interfere in the actual business of govt is going to be severely restricted - not much more than he has currently by just going on Question Time or whatever. Im not saying it's nothing btw, it's not nothing. But it's nothing like as big a deal as the way the media went in on it in the hours after the exit poll.

Like the man said. Thick as fuck.

Ah that's mint. I hope he made a private copy of "the letter" for himself. The fucking prick.

Thought Liz Kendal spoke a lot of sense earlier when she was saying that their job is not to pile up votes in safe seats, and that it's testament to their strategy of moving activists around seats to build the results that people have seen today. I don't doubt that it's going to be hard to hold this together, but I find the immediate framing of "it's all built on sand lads, you'll be fucked in 5 years" is just lazy as fuck. There are potential upsides too - the Tories are gonna have at least 6 months of batshittery while they pick a new leader. Whichever option they go for, that leader will cause division among their remaining MPs, and the number of 1922 letters is now a ridiculously low absolute number. Also, the Palestine issue has clearly hurt Labour this election but that won't be there forever. But mainly the whole framing just assumes they're going to get in power and be just as shit as the Tories were, and that no one will see any improvement in their lives. They might be right, but fucking hell they haven't even counted all the bastard votes yet. Could we maybe hold off on getting the new govt on to basically say "I mean we'll done, but you're fucked aren't you?"

BAKER DOWN! The Hard Man of Brexit, chinned by.....Brexit.

No speech. Classless, empty vessel.

18 seats left. Tories need to win them all to match the initial exit poll total.

I've been in the wrong thread. I'm at the top of the hill at Weetslade trying to watch Sky News on my phone.

She got up on stage eventually. Probably the most richly deserved defeat of the night. Looking forward to a fucking insane speech.

Truss DOWN!

What a thin-skinned, classless bitch. She's fucked off by the look of it.

The sitting prosecution rests its case.

May's old seat gone. Truss declaration remains imminent ffs.

Shabana Mahmood fends off the tiktok lawyer by 3.4k votes.

Cleverly wins. Honestly probably not the worst thing. There need to be some non idiots whonwill resist Farage.

Harper DOWN! The BBC has just stopped showing them.

I've been misled. They should still kiss.

A 6th former as father of the house.

Kuennsberg going on about how Starmer "managed to crack a few smiles" and then twisting her fucking Picasso portrait of a face into what I assume is disdain.

KISS! KISS! KISS! KISS!