RedwoodGirl (she/her) 💖💜💙: From the BBC website: "[Prime Minister] Rishi Sunak will be out of 10 Downing Street - the British equivalent of the White House - within 24 hours, and Sir Keir Starmer will be installed swiftly afterwards." www.bbc.com/news/article...

BBC News just interviewed Ed Milliband, a MP who is acting as Shadow Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero. IIUC, Shadow Secretaries act as counterparts to the govt secretaries and develop alternative policies and criticism. This means Labour will have a cabinet ready immediately.

Labour has officially won the UK election! www.bbc.com/news/live/cn...

LOLOL. BBC is reporting that this is the worst election result for the Conservative party in their entire existence.

BBC reporting that the Conservatives have won no seats in Wales, which is the first time that's happened since 2001.

BBC is also reporting that eight current Conservative cabinet ministers will not only lose their cabinet seats but have also lost their parliamentary seats. This seems like such a stunning repudiation of the Conservative Party. You really do love to see it.

BBC News is reporting they've received a "strong indication" that former Prime Minster Liz "Head of Lettuce" Truss has lost her seat as well. Those results should be in within the next 10 minutes. Commentator on BBC says she never acknowledged her mistakes and was hanging around with Steve Bannon.

Former Prime Minister Liz "Head of Lettuce" Truss has lost her seat in South West Norfolk to the Labour Party candidate Terry Jermy. The BBC newscasters are kind of thunderstruck by this.

From the BBC website: "[Prime Minister] Rishi Sunak will be out of 10 Downing Street - the British equivalent of the White House - within 24 hours, and Sir Keir Starmer will be installed swiftly afterwards." www.bbc.com/news/article...

UK election: What's happened, and what comes nextwww.bbc.com Sir Keir Starmer's Labour have won a big victory - here's a guide to understanding what it all means.

Per Wikipedia, each UK constituency must have an electorate that is no smaller than 69,724 and no larger than 77,062. If the United States had a similar level of representation, we would have over 2100 members of the House of Representatives. I say bring it on. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constit...

Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org

But there's a huge far right undercurrent. It's not very nice

Yep, I'm getting that. Reform got a huge number of votes in Truss's district, and if they'd all voted Conservative, the seat would've stayed Conservative. I'm wondering how many seats are in that same situation.

Well in Wyre forest Racist(UK) took the lion share of swing vote, if 1k of them had gone labour Tory would have lost the seat It’s a pickle though! How do you win the racist vote, without being a racist?

Field a lettuce as your candidate?

Educate them

A lot I think

That sounds like it's not as much as repudiation of the Conservative party as a splintering of it. Frick. Good in the short term but that does not bode well long-term.

It's really scary 😨

What’s the deal with Reform? I only follow your politics On Here, so I don’t understand everything (nor do I care to, but sometimes I’m curious). They’re bad in some way, I take it? Worse than Tories?

They're far-right, what used to be known here as the National Front. 100 years ago they'd have been fighting each other to join Hitler's gang

Oh shit. National Front I know.

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