UK: Conservatives crush leftist Labour Party in massive election landslide

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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party has won a landslide victory in Thursday’s general election, final results show.

With 644 seats out of 650 declared so far, Conservatives have won 366, Labour secured 203, followed by the potential Labour ally Scottish National Party (SNP) at 48. The pro-EU Liberal Democrats got 11 seats. Nigel Farage’s Brexit party, which pulled majority of its candidates in favor of the Conservatives, failed to register a single win.

The result gives Johnson enough lawmakers in the Lower House to “get Brexit done” by 31 January.



While the Conservatives look forward to their best result since 1987, Jeremy Corbyn-led Labour Party is headed for one of the worst outcome in its post-war history. Conservative candidates made inroads into traditional Labour heartlands, smashing the party’s so-called “red wall” in working class districts, a resounding left-wing defeat not seen since the days of Margaret Thatcher.

Corbyn described the result, which gave his party little over 200 seats, as “very disappointing.” The left-wing leader announced his decision to step down as the party chief before the next general election. “I want to also make it clear that I will not lead the party in any future general election campaign,” the Labour Party leader said.

This might not be enough for Corbyn’s detractors in the party who are calling for him to quit immediately. “Jeremy Corbyn was a disaster for Labour – everyone knew that he couldn’t lead the working class out of a paper bag,” senior Labour politician Alan Johnson said as results started pouring in. “He should never have been elected in the first place,” former Labour minister Chris Leslie lamented.

BBC reported a Conservative landslide:

The Conservatives have taken a string of former Labour strongholds, with the party forecast to win the general election with a comfortable majority.

Jeremy Corbyn said it was a “very disappointing night” – and he would not lead Labour into the next election.

Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson has lost her seat to the Scottish National Party.

The BBC is now forecasting the Tories will get a majority of 74, with Boris Johnson saying it was a “powerful mandate to get Brexit done”.

Labour have lost seats across the North, Midlands and Wales in places which backed Brexit in the 2016 referendum.

They are set to win 63 fewer seats than in 2017, it is suggested.

While the pro-Brexit Leave vote remained intact behind the Conservatives — thanks largely to the generous gesture by Nigel Farage of standing down majority of his party’s candidates, the pro-EU Remain vote seems to have split between the socialist Labour and the pro-EU Liberal Democrats, media reports suggest.

U.S. President Donald Trump congratulated the British Prime Minister on his stunning victory. “Looking like a big win for Boris in the U.K.!’ President tweeted Thursday night.

The UK election result comes as a big disappointment to the socialists and leftists on both sides of the Atlantic. New York congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez endorsed Corbyn on the election day, urging Britons to vote for Labour on Twitter. Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders has long admired the Labour Party chief, seeing him as a role model for the progressives in the Democratic Party. “What Corbyn has tried to do with the Labour Party is not dissimilar to what some of us are trying to do with the Democratic Party,” Sanders admitted in 2017. Germany’s Social Democratic Party, Chancellor Angela Merkel’s coalition partner, came out in support of Corbyn on Twitter, declaring: “We have a message for our comrades in the UK: We are at your side. Get out the vote. Vote Labour.” Those hope have now been dashed.

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Maybe the liberals there need to buy a load impeachment from us. I mean, the majority has decided what they want, liberals didn’t get their way, so maybe they need to impeach.

OH! OH! OH! I have it!!

OR, the Russians interfered! Nefarious foreign influence controlled the minds of millions of people and made them vote for the good of their own country! The dirty bastards!!

OR, the Russians interfered! Nefarious foreign influence controlled the minds of millions of people and made them vote for the good of their own country!

Indeed, Putin is celebrating.

From last month: Revealed: Russian donors have stepped up Tory funding

The Conservatives have received significant recent cash injections from a number of Russian donors and their associates, an openDemocracy investigation has discovered.

Well-connected Russian oligarchs and companies heavily involved in lobbying for Russian interests have stepped up their funding of the Conservative party in recent months, our analysis reveals.

The news comes as Boris Johnson stands accused of presiding over a “cover-up” over his government’s refusal to release a report into alleged Russian interference in British politics.

Responding to openDemocracy’s findings, Labour MP Ben Bradshaw said: “Now we know one of the reasons Boris Johnson is suppressing the official report into Kremlin penetration of our democracy. It’s because of the substantial and growing links between Russian money and the Tory Party.”

Downing Street has claimed that there was not sufficient time for the report “sign off process” before the election.

Former Prime Minister Theresa May had previously promised to distance the Conservatives from Russian money, especially in the wake of the Salisbury poisonings in 2018.

By far the largest recent Russian donor has been Lubov Chernukhin. The wife of a former Russian deputy finance minister, Chernukhin has donated more than £450,000 to the Conservatives in the last year.

Former arms tycoon Alexander Temerko is another prominent Russian donor in Tory circles who has given money in the past year. Temerko, who has spoken warmly about his “friend” Boris Johnson, has gifted over £1.2 million to the Conservatives over the past seven years and has reportedly admitted being involved in a Eurosceptic plot to oust May as Tory leader less than a year ago.

Russian political donations, reports of hacking, and a disinformation campaign… It does sound familiar.

@Greg:

Russian political donations, reports of hacking, and a disinformation campaign… It does sound familiar.

Yes no matter how they cheated with their pedophile bundlers Trump still won.
ww.washingtonexaminer.com/news/convicted-sex-offender-and-mueller-witness-george-nade…
The EU is murdering Europe the UK is the first but not last domino.

@Greg: As opposed to the disinformation your party has been pushing for 30 years from the media, entertainment, and educational institutions?

Better get that excuse made up in advance, since you know your party is going to lose the election.

@Greg:

Indeed, Putin is celebrating.

Yeah, he’s celebrating. The false dirt on Trump he planted has duped a LOT of gullible, sore loser, butthurt sore losers and created an impeachment hoax that though it threatens to destroy their party, Democrats don’t know how to stop it. Of COURSE Putin is happy. He’s made useful idiots of all the Democrats.