Thursday, July 04, 2024

Britain's renowned exit poll predicted 62% of seats in Parliament for Labour. Right now Labour has won 73.8% of the seats. There are still 410 seats outstanding. Labour has 177, up 74 seats already from 2019; the Cons have 28 seats, down 88 seats already from 2019. 326 is a parliamentary majority. The BBC predicts Labour will have 405 seats, a 2.6-1 majority over the Tories when the vote-counting is done. In the two centuries of representative democracy, I don't know this for sure, but I think it likely that never before has a nation's political landscape changed as comprehensively from one election to another, as is happening in the UK tonight.