at the moment the conservatives are +95 and labour are down > 120

Also:

Delyn Wales

Labour Hold

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They're finished, no coming back. The door is wide open for a new opposition.

Scotland

So far in the 21 seats declared, no party's vote is up or down by more than one point as compared with 2016.

If this pattern continues the SNP will need to get an above average swing in the crucial marginal seats if they are going to reach the 65 mark.

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Says Mayor Kahn Vs Bailey
is now closer in votes

thats him telt
 

Corbyn is Live on Ch4HDnews.

Scotland (BBC News)
 

What's the story so far?

The latest results and key developments from the count:

Three seats have changed hands - all won by the SNP. Angus Robertson triumphed in Edinburgh Central, the seat formerly held by Ruth Davidson, with a majority of 4,732.

Earlier, the SNP took East Lothian from Labour with a majority of 1,179 and they beat the Conservatives in Ayr by 170 votes, the tightest result so far.
With 43 seats declared, the SNP have 36 MSPs, the Lib Dems four and the Conservatives two

Nicola Sturgeon was comfortably elected in Glasgow Southside, her vote just slightly down on last time. Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar came second, increasing his party's share of the vote by 8.5%
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie was happy with a "stonking" win in North East Fife and there was also an increased majority for fellow Lib Dem Alex Cole-Hamilton in Edinburgh Western.

The Lib Dems held on to all four of their constituency seats but failed to take Caithness, Sutherland and Ross from the SNP, and their majority in Shetland was slashed to just 806 by the SNP.
The Scottish Conservatives have two MSPs so far - Rachael Hamilton was well ahead of her nearest rival in Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire although with a reduced majority, while Oliver Mundell increased his majority in Dumfriesshire.

The Tories came a close second in Banffshire and Buchan Coast, trailing the SNP by just 772 votes.

There was disappointment for Labour in Rutherglen where the controversy over the former SNP MP Margaret Ferrier failed to translate into a win over the SNP's Clare Haughey.

The full list vote results won't emerge until Saturday but in the small number of constituencies which have given details, Alex Salmond's Alba party is polling about 2% and the Greens 7%

Deputy First Minister John Swinney and Finance Secretary Kate Forbes were both returned with increased majorities. Ms Forbes took 56.1% of the vote in Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch

Ms Sturgeon told the BBC she felt "pretty happy" with the results so far. She says a comfortable SNP win "is certain", even if it remains unclear if she'll command an overall majority

Scotland
Alba have beaten LibDems
in one zone

Alex Says
on BBCnewsHD

Professor Sir John Curtice

Polling expert

The successful Conservative defence of Eastwood significantly reduces the SNP's chances of winning an overall majority.

This appeared to be among the more likely places where the SNP might win one of the key opposition marginal seats that were left to declare.

If anyone was going to vote Conservative Eastwood would :smug:

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/05...0420700890.jpg
[A former Labour MP suggests to me that many
northern working-class voters see Labour
as an elitist party of ‘the university educated and privileged’]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/a...verything.html

Wales Labour
appears to have done well.


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-57009547

I think that's down this time to Mark Drakeford and his efforts in the greater part.

Thankfully Wales however, does still see through the Cons unlike England.

people do not become stupid, uninformed or arse lickers when they choose a different political option to our own. Accusing others of that is simply playground mentality :laugh:

If that's a dig at my comment.
Fair enough.
I stand by it however.

Across N Ireland, even in the DUP supporters there's dismay with the Cons and the government.

Scottish voters have strongly rejected the Cons for decades.

Now so do Wales

They're not stupid either.

There is however a good, not majority of voters across England ONLY who don't seem able to see through the Cons, nor even try to.

I say that too as someone who is English, born in Worcestershire.

Conservative Gain

Cannock Chase From NOC


BBCnewsHD say Andy Street
Conservative Mayor is expected to stay in power

What a lot of the commentary about this election has missed is that we are still in the middle of this pandemic crisis, and it is unclear when normal life will return, and that is the main thing people are interested in.

I think that is a big reason they have favoured voting for the current administrations.

Yes hence
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SkyNewsHD
LBC

On a Saturday still waiting for slow counts to finish


China's Covid-19 has slowed everything down.

SkyNewsHD

has done House of Commons Projection

Conservative new Majority :48


Conservative 349 -16
Labour 206 +3
SNP 50 +2
LibDem 22 +11
Other 23 0