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I suppose with so many sitting MP's having candidates in place is less of a problem for Andy but a manifesto ?

Bound to be some good bar charts in the literature 😁

I don't see how more Labour is anything to celebrate. More persecuting unfavourable minorities. More proscribing harmless protest groups. More pandering to the rich at the expense of the poor. Yay!

Except it's not. PP has the lion share of the right wing vote but will probably not be able form a government without the help of Vox in the general election on 29th November.

Which means that the UK fails our Copenhagen Criteria.

Second place party votes-wise coming fourth seats-wise and within range of dropping to fifth also a shocker (even if it would be quite funny seeing it happen to Reform!)

This is absolutely insane! The need for PR is now urgent. Having 28% of the population rule over us is a recipe for civil unrest.

And yet still a majority on 28%! FPTP has got to go.

There is a lot of overlap between the two parties and they could do each other good, with Labour pulling the Libs a bit fiscally left (without Libs taking heat from that as junior partners) and the Libs nudging Labour to be more liberal (without Labour taking heat for that either).

It could go either way, but a narrow majority like that *should* be good for internal party discipline.....

A majority is a majority - they'd be expected to at least try. Also expect there'd be some cooling on electoral reform, already talk of preferred alternative being supplementary vote (Temu AV) rather than anything proportional.

I still can’t see Reform getting more than 40 seats… and I do believe the LibDems will have a similar number to 2024, between 70/80… but a definite yes to a small Labour majority…

Must be the first one to show a majority in ages! Not convinced about some of the Lab holds (NW Leics., Pendle, Poole, St Austell) though nor Greens winning Huddersfield (would imagine if there's a Yorkshire breakthrough it'll be Sheffield Central). But then what do I know?