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LAST UPDATE | 12 Dec 2019
BORIS JOHNSON IS set to remain as UK prime minister with a huge parliamentary majority for his Conservative party, tonight’s TV exit poll has predicted.
The exit poll is predicting that the Tories will win 368 seats, a majority of 86 seats and an increase of 50 on the previous general election in 2017.
A result along these lines represents a massive win for Johnson and the best for his party since Margaret Thatcher’s victory in 1987.
Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour party looks set to lose up to 71 seats, a disastrous result that will leave it with 191 MPs and far short of what Corbyn would require to even consider forming a government.
Figures from the exit poll were borne out when the first results began to come in after 11 pm, with the Conservatives winning the Blyth Valley constituency in the north-east of England after a 10 point swing to the party.
The apparent election result means that Johnson has been handed the mandate to lead the UK out of the EU next month.
The Tory platform argued that the Brexit deal struck between Johnson and EU leaders was being held up by the lack a parliamentary majority.
The exit poll suggests that the party’s focus on decisively ending the Brexit impasse by leaving the EU was a successful one.
For Johnson, the exit poll suggests this is a pinnacle of his almost 30 years in British public life with a crushing victory in his first general election as Conservative leader.
The exit poll also leaves Corbyn’s future as Labour leader on life-support after one of its worst ever electoral performances.
The prediction suggests Labour will lose seats across some of its traditional heartlands and there will be much soul-searching about whether the party’s approach to the central question of Brexit lead to today’s electoral disaster.
It will also lead to wider questions about the direction that party has taken since Corbyn became leader in 2015.
In Scotland, the exit poll is also predicting that the SNP couple win 55 seats, only four short of a clean sweep, bringing the issue of Scottish independence to the fore once more.
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We are watching a country implode.
@Oisín O’Connor: where? No, you are witnessing democracy at work regardless of your personal opinions
@Oisín O’Connor: why? Because they’re leaving Europe?
@Valthebear: Agreed. How ppl believe media spin that brexit isnt wanted is beyond me.
@Valthebear: wait till the bottom falls out of the country in February when they’ve left Europe. Then the country will implode this is just them ignoring every red flag and thinking that because it’s democracy in action it’s a smart choice. Democracy isn’t a bad thing but voting for the wrong people isn’t a course of action anyone would recommend
@Thomas Maher: why?! Two words. Second word – Johnson.
@Oisín O’Connor: They seem to be very much in control from what I can see. I am not a Brexit fan but this is phenomenal result for Boris and a very confident vote from the people.
@Valthebear: thousands admitted that they voted out as a revolt against the government and said they never believed it would happen.
@Jake Kelly: you’ll be looking silly in February Jake. Not going to happen. Besides Brexit was about more than economics.
@Jake Kelly: they are not voting for boris they are voting for a party he just happens to be at the front of it….like you said if voting for the wrong people isn’t of course of action anyone would recommend..democracy in action is good because it’s the will of the people it’s what the people want give them it
@Oisín O’Connor: not implode it was a given
@Ian James Burgess: Millions wanted out.
@Ian James Burgess: Rubbish. you believe the lying media. Tonights vote is the ppl saying they are leaving.
@Jake Kelly:
It’s safe to say that the conservative-nationalist movement was no fluke, if only the western left and neo liberals put the family and working class first, they would do so well.
So long comrade Corbyn.
@Jake Kelly: It’s impossible for them to leave Europe, it’s a continent.
@Thomas Maher: because the people have spoken and said we want out. Simple
@Oisín O’Connor:
Climate change?
@Valthebear: maybe cause the UK is going to break up, Scotland will leave and ireland will be united as one.
@Valthebear: yes economics and racial bigotry…. what a dumb response
@Just Noticed.: * people * please
@Mike Murphy: a vote for the party is a vote for the leader because that’s the representative the party put out. What you said makes no sense whatsoever. If you vote for a party who’s leader you don’t like then your voting for the wrong reasons cause that leader will drive the party in the wrong direction and your simply voting for them out of loyalty which in this climate should not the meaning it does as the conservatives don’t care the people voting for them
@Oisín O’Connor: Why? Because they are leaving Europe? How about countries that never joined the EU? Nothing negative will happen
@Jake Kelly: I dont vote for a party leader I vote for what i believe in…not for who the party leader is….for what I believe in…and I’ll vote….just because you dont agree with the leader he still follows the parties policies….doesn’t mean you shouldn’t vote for him I would we dont have any of this here they are all on he left side it’s good to have that challenge not just all one way traffic
@Oisín O’Connor: its fantastic
@Oisín O’Connor: Insecure Irishness at its worst
@Valthebear: You can be witnessing both! Democracy and the Country imploding.
@Jake Kelly: Won’t be happening in Feb. They are supposed to be getting a new trade deal sorted by end Dec ’20. Then it’s No Deal.
@Mejo: a continent they are not connected to by land
@Mike Murphy: How do you know what the people are thinking? They voted secretly. People should stop patronising voters because they don’t vote the way they want. It is ignorant and undemocratic and insulting to voters to criticise their choice in voting.
@Julie G Graham: there was an exit poll done??? Which was correct I’m not insulting them just happy the will of the people has won and Brexit will happen now
Grim
@Gareth Keenan: Gareth, have you ever seen a man throw a kettle over a pub?
@jacquoranda: I have. That was the real quiz.
How did they let this happen??. Their impending doom is entirely there own fault now
@Jake Kelly: *their
@Jake Kelly: Because Ed Miliband stabbed his brother David in the back to become Labour leader in 2010. The Brexit referendum outcome would likely not even have happened under the other Miliband as a hung parliament would have been much more likely in 2015, and in that case there wouldn’t have been a referendum in the first place.
Ed Miliband subsequently paved the way for an even starker move to the left under the stubborn Jeremy Corbyn, and many Labour voters ended up holding their nose and voting Tory.
Enough Remainers would rather have the country leave with Johnson’s deal than to have a socialist at Number 10, in order to tip the balance of power in Westminster to where it now seems to be according to the exit poll.
@Mick Tobin: yeah because socialism is just awful, it brought the UK the NHS.
@Barry: and the fear of it is going to kill the NHS how ironic
@Barry: There’s nothing wrong with the NHS, but truth be told; the Tories abused the NHS on their big red bus during the 2016 Brexit referendum campaign. They don’t like the NHS one bit, but they’ll use it if it suits their purpose, completey in line with Johnson’s very own brand of oppostunism.
@Barry: socialism doesn’t work
They were given a second chance… and they blew it again
How?
@Patsy McCarthy:
Because they didn’t vote the way you wanted them to?
P45 for Corbyn.
@Raven: it’s not about who I “want” them to vote for. It’s about the character and calibre of the person they voted for.
@Deirdre O’Byrne: exactly that’s why Corbyn & Swanson are f*#$%d
@Raven: Jeremy Corbyn is Britain’s Hillary Clinton unfortunately
@Deirdre O’Byrne:
Character? That’s a hoot. Corbyn considers Hamas & Hezbollah his friends. Get the boat will ye.
@Raven: Ah you know that was just Murdoch conservative media crapola
@Dave Harris:
There is video content online if you can bother your backside.
@Dave Harris:
Here you go buddy, I guess you’ll disappear now for a few days.
https://youtu.be/VCoj3JFZ6-M
The will of the people has been answered this time they will leave and it’s going to happen
@Mike Murphy: gonna screw us
@Mike Murphy: wow at last get bre it done
@bmul: didn’t we screw ourselves? We cant keep going back looking for a remain vote when the majority tonight if exit polls suggest that its boris to lead them out of Europe and it will happen if the exit polls suggest
@bmul: how is that now?
@Denise Gerrard: just listening to the will of the British public alot more information now going through people are more informed and seems like the way it’s going to be
@Denise Gerrard: well the divorce will be done and dusted in January. But the new trade deal will take – what – a decade?
@Deirdre O’Byrne: who knows ,it all depends how eu want to play it , if the poll is correct the. The British people have given Johnson a massive mandate to get the job done ,you cannot ignore 17.5 million people’s vote . And they don’t want commie Corbyn in either .
Disastrous result for Ireland
@Martin M: how? Boris Deal goes through and there is no hard border.
@milton friedman: it is not just all about North South trade. It is also East-West which this country heavily relies on. For example, the company I work in exports about 92% to GB, 6% to NI and 2% elsewhere. Yes, avoidance of a hard border is critical but only a small comfort if loss of trade with mainland GB is affected badly
Can I get off this Earth now……..can’t handle Trump and now Boris with an actual mandate
@Aidan Doyle: off you go what’s your hurry
Remoaner meltdown imminent.
@Raven: this is gonna have a huge impact on us
@Raven: people who care you mean.
@Raven: Lol. Misinformation..right wing bla bla. Liberals just cannot understand or respect democracy.
@Just Noticed.:
Ah comrade, I remember a time when the left and liberals actually cared about the working class, ah well.
@Raven: Because a Tory majority Govt and a Billionaire funded Brexit are somehow going to benefit the working class.. pull the other one you two.
If the exit poll is accurate or even close, Johnson / Cummings could crash the UK out by next week, tell EU & UK to hell with a deal, we’re going now.
@MunsterPI: not a chance of that happening.
@Ned Flanders: Why? Even Bercow is talking about that possibility now on Sky news, if Tories have that size majority, UK will crash out before Dec 31st, it will keep the Unionists onboard as well.
@MunsterPI: what is this crash out ,nobody wants to crash out,they want a deal and now they have got the mandate they can go on a get one .
@Denise Gerrard: Now the tories have a large majority, they can now go after THEY want. No prolonged trade negotiations, they will be gone from the EU by January 1 2020. As Noel Edmonds would say, deal or no deal.
More proof, as if needed, that people.do not vote left parties into gov..
@Lar Meyler: amazing that so many believe the right-wing media propaganda, vote against their own best interests and then complain about getting screwed.
@EillieEs: ridiculous. Your comment assumes people have no independent agency and are hypnotised into voting Tory if they walk by a newsagents selling the Sun and Mail. Patronising nonsense especially in an era where less and less people get their news from newspapers. You’d be better served examing why working class Brits switched to the Tories as Labour had betrayed the nation’s democratic decision on Brexit
@EillieEs: And you’re the only one who can see it? Wow! how’s that working out for you??
@EillieEs: The left wing lying media you mean.
@EillieEs: Get a grip! The only left party leader.elected.in last 50 years in the UK was Tony Blair and the Left disowned him. Go figure…
This will be fun.
Sure we vote in ffg…… we don’t learn either
@John O Reilly: we don’t vote in favour of an economic Armageddon the likes of which Brexit could very well bring about. Just because we vote for numbskulls doesn’t mean it should be used to defend such bad choices by the brits. It’s like comparing tripping over your shoelaces to crashing your car into a wall
@Jake Kelly: you wont know till it happens …then you could say I told you so….stop with all this scaremongering boris had a deal with a border in the Irish sea when the DUP voted down now they have a majority it can be passed
@Jake Kelly: The end is nigh? Your imaginary British economic armageddon isn’t going to happen.
Worst Labour performance in 95 years. Jeremy Corbyn managed to lose a third of Labour’s seats to Boris Johnson. I assume everyone will stop taking him seriously now.
@jacquoranda: was hard to overcome the relentless propaganda campaign against him.
@EillieEs: Yeah. That was it. He was the perfect choice for PM otherwise.
@jacquoranda: unfortunately he talks the talk where the party faithful are concerned unfortunately he doesnt come across as believing any of it or with the ability to actually formulate a policy and certainly not to implement one.
Disgraceful. People voting in favour of enacting a democratic referendum.
@milton friedman: yeah – how terrible if people had voted otherwise. Once they vote for something they should never be permitted to subsequently vote otherwise.
@Deirdre O’Byrne: I never said people are not allowed to change their mind. If they voted overwhelmingly Lib Dem to cancel Brexit, I’d accept it as the current will of the people.
IMO this was a de facto second referendum on Brexit, and it appears the people are of the opinion the first referendum should be implemented.
@milton friedman: indeed. A predictable result but as per usual many here couldn’t see it coming. Brits were never going to be forced to vote again on an EU referendum like we were. The silent majority have spoken. A good night for democracy, a good result for Ireland too
@Valthebear: how is this a good result for Ireland?
@milton friedman: Another referendum is the only way to decide what to do about the first one. The first one did not have a specific flavour of Brexit, so was easy to vote for. A real specific option won’t get a majority.
@EillieEs: Boris Deal ensures no hard border.
That was out biggest concern. Now we need him to follow through…
@Tanks a Minion: all due respect mate, that’s nonsense.
Boris just put a flavour of Brexit, vis a vis his Deal, to the people and it appears they have voted for it.
@EillieEs: certainty of a Brexit without a hard border. Do try and keep up. Although you probably think that’s a sinister conspiracy by the Daily Express or some such..
@Valthebear: a disastrous result for Ireland
@milton friedman: and you believe Boris?
@Gus Sheridan: not really. But I think it is the low hanging fruit, so I think he will grab that knowing his character.
Sad times, but predicted
England has become the US, where outright lies are fine as long as it’s what the right wants to hear.
Good thing the SNP got so many seats tho, Scotland will surely leave the UK if they run another referendum.
Good that the British public are firmly saying no to institutional antisemitism.
@Pól Ó’hAodha: Boris’ racism is ok, though?
@Tanks a Minion: Whataboutery
@Tanks a Minion:
It would seem so
@Pól Ó’hAodha: Just facts.
yes yes yes
Cherrio to the EU,
@Richy Fitz: … and to the Irish economy.
Turkeys voting for Christmas.
They’ve well and truly made their bed now
The people have spoken, massive victory for democracy
@Alex Nevin: an even bigger victory for lies, pig-headedness, and stupidity. Not that I can say Ireland and our “democratic” affair with FFG is much better.
@Alex Nevin: Democracy? The Tories got less than 50% of the vote and will have a big majority. How is that democratic?
Does this mean that calls for a 2nd referendum are dead in the water now?
@Vote4Pedro: 100% dead.
@Vote4Pedro: The votes haven’t even been counted. Wait until the ACTUAL results are out.
@Stephen Devlin: the exit polls might not be 100% accurate, but they’re usually close enough that at worst the Conservatives will have a smaller majority but still sufficient to push through whatever crappy legislation they want.
(Believe me I would be delighted if the exit poll was completely wide of the mark, but it’s quite unlikely)
Well the people have spoken….. again…… now get it done!
Socialism will never work, far left politics will never work. Deal with it
@Joey Byrne: social democracy is working very well in Northern European countries where people have a great standard of living.
@EillieEs: ahem look at ‘multi-cultural’ Sweden. No thanks
Corbyn needs to go
@Stevie Doran: looks like he is the big problem with Labour, far too left for the British public
OMG .SOME PEOPLE NEVER LEARN
Well, on the plus side, Boris can tell the DUP to duck* off and the border is likely to be in the sea rather than land.
And the inevitable Brexit clusterduck* can be laid at Boris’s door – although he’ll doubtless blame Labour for not letting him ‘get Brexit done’ before the election.
* Should be an f instead of a d
@Kendra Jackson: with that huge majority I could see BoJo simplifying Brexit. Tear up the current deal, go no deal, but put the border on the Irish Sea not a hard on-land border, then constantly respond to DUP with gafaffle, jokes, latin and greek quotes, and carrot on a stick lies … until they get fed up and go away.
@Kendra Jackson: Arlenes head is going to explode when she realises nobody is going to listen to her anymorrrrreee
And they conquered half the world? Sweet mother.
@roberto Mankini: And Boris given licence to ride his way at will throughout the UK! Maybe not Scotland.
The only ones that will be hit the hardest by this are the working class, who are the majority, ironically. Inflicting this upon themselves.
But at least they were decisive.
@Dean: suggest you visit working class people in Britain. They can’t be hit any much more. The neo liberal eu did sweet fa for them.
@Valthebear: The Tories have been in power for 9 years. The EU does not rule them.
Talk about the turkeys voting for xmas, any country that decides to give Bojo a majority govt deserves everything they get.Still though the media have been peddling pro boris crap all election maybe this is just wishful thinking on their part.
Where would exit polls for NI be published?
@paddy: it’s all collected information from outside polling stations from all over Britain
@Mike Murphy: Britain not the North of Ireland
@Damien C: still the same constituencies still part of united kingdom still vote in their referendums their elections what part did I miss
@paddy: they didn’t do an exit poll in NI
This is some of the greatest horseplay of all time.
Corbyn has to be a gonner. Couldn’t land a punch on the most beleaguered PM since Neville Chamberlain. And barley tickled the most toxic PM since Thatcher.
I’d laugh if it didn’t effect this country so much. My goodness them Brits are a foolish bunch. May God bless us all!!
@Malachy Rivers: Deal gets voted through and no hard border. A very good possibility though.
The only plus I can see in this is the Torries no longer need the DUP to maintain their majority so.. f&(k off Arlene back to the 1800s where your backwards party have found themselves stuck in.. and that really is the only plus Brexit is going to be a disaster for Ireland’s economy.
@Andy mc Laughlin: arlenes next few interviews will be hilarious, right before the moment nobody listens to her backwards crapola ever again
If I’m reading this right , it looks like England, outside of London , Manchester and other big cities are dragging Wales, Scotland and , waiting on results to clarify, the North out of the EU. The welsh and north results could be interesting as it may mean that 3 out of the 4 regions of the UK voted in Remain or Second ref parties and they will be ignored ?.
@Terry Waldron: this is team GB – no room for regional difference – one out, all out. F@@k em I say, can’t decide anything and think the world revolves around them.
@roberto Mankini: But who is “them”, this could and hopefully is, the end of the “UNITED Kingdom”. Let the little englanders at it, to quote ISF, at it again
@Terry Waldron: Wales voted in favour of Brexit.
@EillieEs: 3 years ago but if they return Remain or second ref parties in this GE it validates my earlier comment. What’s the point of having a mind if you can’t change it
@EillieEs: Apparently, lots of retired English people in Wales created that small majority in favour of Brexit.
A United Ireland & Independent Scotland within ten years?
By by e.u. and with germans imploding as well
@Den Sullivan: and bye bye Irish economy while we’re at it. Congrats to Putin – well played.
@Den Sullivan: I hope you are living in the UK, so you can enjoy your ‘freedom’.
Top Trumps.
Hearty congratulations to Vladimir Putin. Well played. Got Trump in the US, Johnson in the UK, and dealt Europe a possibly fatal wound.
@Deirdre O’Byrne: I think you’ll find that Corbyn got the Tori’s elected.
@Deirdre O’Byrne: I do not think Putin filled all of the Exit Poll forms … but his underground network of hackers are probably hard at it now, no coffee breaks, no pee breaks. Any opportunity to create bigger cracks and fall of EU.
@Deirdre O’Byrne: the desperation is strong in this one
So it looks like a lot of young voters have voted for Boris if he has such numbers as they are saying.
That really surprises me considering they wanted remain.
@Ann Morris Doolan: yes l think you are right ,the young want to get on ,have opportunities ,businesses ,under Marxist government all that would fade .
SNP projected +20 seats. This will be very interesting indeed.
The first past the post system doesn’t seem to be very democratic and it doesn’t represent the people.
@David Lafferty FCCA: but that’s the system they have and obviously they are happy with that. People said the same about the Colleges in the US when Donald Trump won the election. Stuff like this only comes up when the Party & it’s leader whom they dislike wins. You never hear a peep when it is their own success.
Looks like Boris is going to rain on Arlene’s parade, not good news for the border though.
No more bleeting from Arlene and co – maybe they’ll F off and learn their place now, useless orange tools.
Not a good outcome for Eire.
Donald on one side and Borris on the other.
Throw the EU into the mix and things are going to go sideways for the foreseeable.
@Smokers Toker: Nah, Boris will quite happily forget all about Ireland and spend his time turning his own country into a place where the toffs prosper mind bendingly hugely while the poor are left with empty promises
Oh my stars
unfortunately the alternatives offered by other parties was more of what’s been going on for the last 3 years. not surprising they voted for the only one who says he will finish it. not that I think he,will I think the negotiations will drag on for years.
The media will have a job to keep both Boris & the Donald down.
GOTCHA.
Praise God. Now we may move forward into broad sunlit uplands.
Just goes to show you not to believe propaganda news ..
It’s going to be tough for Jelly Corbyn to find gainful employment at his age, even more so considering that he comes from a privileged background and has never had a proper job in his life:
https://www.tatler.com/gallery/jeremy-corbyn-posh-background
The zionist sway is strong
Bye bye britian!
@Sean Whelan: and Ireland will feel the pinch big time
@Gus Sheridan: I know we will, can’t say I’m happy about it either, but I have a feeling it is the beginning of the end of the UK.
Holy Shit
What would happen if Boris lost his seat?
Holy Shit
Holy Shit
@Paul Winter: Holy what?
@Paul Winter: Holy who?
Idiots
There is really one real
Winner here, the SNP. Sturgeon played a blinder, and Scotland will be independent in 18 months.
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