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Labour wins majority in UK General Elections as Tories lose two-thirds of seats (www.theguardian.com)
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The Labour party has won over 400 seats (out of 650) in the 2024 UK General Elections, and Keir Starmer is expected to replace Rishi Sunak as Prime Minister. The Conservatives, in power for the last fourteen years, have suffered a rout, losing over two-thirds of their seats. The SNP has collapsed in Scotland, mostly to Labour, and the Liberal Democrats have gained over sixty seats.

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[–] emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 45 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk 26 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Very impressed with the Greens - four seats is double what was expected. Great result for them.

The Lib Dems have also come out of this really well.

[–] DJDarren@thelemmy.club 14 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I voted LD because I had to to ensure the Tory candidate didn’t get in, but I had to hold my nose while doing so. Last time I voted for them nationally was 2010, and we all know how that panned out.

To be fair to them though, after the 2015 election they had so few MPs that you could tag them all in a single tweet. So to have 71 now is impressive.

[–] then_three_more@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

If it makes you feel better I'd have loved to vote lib dem, but had to hold my nose to vote labour.

[–] Oggyb@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

People will hold their noses just the same for the Tories in 5 years' time, after them having done way worse things than just not quite holding their coalition partner back a couple of times.

What Clegg conceded was bad, but 14 years might be enough exile and personnel churn for one to give them a new chance.

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 4 points 4 months ago

Small gains 💪

[–] xnx@slrpnk.net 15 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Is jeremy corbyn considered to the left of the Labour party?

[–] Darorad@lemmy.world 44 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, starmer kicked him out for not being centrist enough, which is why he ran independent (and beat the labour candidate)

[–] alchemist2023@lemmy.world 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

and now they can kick out Kier and reinstate Jeremy! right!? right?? in my dreams

[–] emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

To the left of the current Labour leadership, yes.

[–] BirdyBoogleBop@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I think it is safe to say he is just left wing. Corbyn also self identifies as a socialist.

Labour hasn't been left wing atleast since I started living.

[–] Orbituary@lemmy.world 15 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

Murikan here. I really like Corbyn. He feels like your version of our Bernie Sanders.

https://i.imgur.com/44aVA5T.png

[–] regul@lemm.ee 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

He's better than Sanders, especially on foreign policy.

[–] Orbituary@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

Wasn't trying to rate their respective values, just that one reminded me of other. Bernie's the best we can muster here. I imagine if things were a little bit more reasonable in our country, we might see more like him and Corbyn.

[–] Oggyb@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

He's a national treasure

[–] kaffiene@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

I'm a New Zealander and I feel the same way. Starmer is like a non geriatric version of Biden: he would fit right in the Tories

[–] intelisense@lemm.ee -1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Not to be nit-picky, but I'm pretty sure they kicked him because they thought he was antisemitic, not because he was too left wing.

[–] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

That was the knife they used to stab him in the back with.

[–] kaffiene@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

That was the excuse they made up, yes

[–] underscore_@sopuli.xyz 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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
…

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.

[–] kaffiene@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

FPP is absolutely awful. You need voting reform ASAP

[–] emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 months ago

It's a stupid system, but I don't expect the party that got 412 seats on a 34% voteshare to reform it.