Something interesting I picked up at another site:
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"Exit poll is suggesting outright gains for Labour in London, and Tories are also losing seats and votes to the SNP. Scotland is 55 SNP, 3 Tories, 1 Labour.
If London went Labour, and Scotland went SNP, I wonder how the Lib Dems are still at 13; they clearly didn’t break through anywhere Swinson was meant to. [...]
Only way the math adds up is with absolutely monumental swings in former Labour heartland areas. And, yeah, if recounts are necessary in the Sunderlands…it means some parts of the UK are swinging 20-25 points."
If the Tories are able to deliver a Brexit that wont leave the working-class voters in the north noticeably worse off, and perhaps bring some improvements of arbitrary form to these region (e.g. fixing the NHS a little bit), then they might be able to hold on to these voters even when Brexit is no longer the dominant issue. This GE could prove to be a huge realignment election.
This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Dec 12 2019 06:29pm