Today’s Guest Poster is the magnificent Puffy The Magic Dragon, who – as always – has come up with a topic guaranteed to put fire in the belly (and even out of the mouth). Thank you so much, Puffy.
Also, I apologise for my lack of activity for the past few weeks. I am sure you all understand.
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Hats off to Mr Steve Georganas MP, Federal Member for Hindmarsh, House of Reps. ALP.
Steve Geoganas, a thoroughly good bloke, recently attached a questionaire to his newsletter, for people in his electorate, asking about issues and concerns they may have.
As well as keeping in touch with his electorate and proactively seeking their input, his survey finished with an interesting question that I have not seen before in such an exercise.
‘What would you do if you were Prime Minister for one day.’
What an intriguing thought. What would I do?
I would:
- Close Manus Island and Nauru camps and order repatriation to Australia of the people interned there.
- Establish royal commissions into the banks, and another into our involvement into the Iraq WMD war. And Children Overboard, and the rest of that can of maggots. Chuck one in for political donations too, while we are at it.
- Stop the Adani coalmine.
Because I will get to work early on my day, it will only be morning tea-time.
- I will have plenty of time to fix the NBN fiasco, and then after lunch with Indigenous people’s representatives to nut out a plan to really address inequities, roll my sleeves up for a late nighter.
There is so much more.
- Also, I would implement the ALP Animal Welfare plan, and designate theft of pets as an act of national harm, punishable by ten years of cleaning up doggy doo doo.
What would you do?
THE PUB 
Gippsland Laborite, and lots of other Pubsters,
Thank you for your dedication.
Yes, well done! ***
CON hold Saffron Walden
LAB hold Chester
LAB hold slough
LAB hold Stalybridge and Hyde
Lab hold Oldham west and royton
CON hold Newark
LAB hold Brent Central
LAB hold Vauxhall
CON hold Chelsea and Fulham
LAB hold Bassetlaw
LAB hold Rother Valley
LAB hold Erith and Thamesmead
Well, I hope Scotland are happy with themselves. From what it seems, they seem to have given the Conservatives the last few seats they need to hold a relatively safe coalition government with the Irish Unionists.
Speaking of NI, it seems the SDLP (Irish Labour) has been wiped out, losing its only 3 seats.
LAB hold rotherham
CON hold Bury St Edmunds
LAB hold Wentworth and Dearne
LAB hold Feltham and Heston
CON hold Braintree
CON hold Faversham and mid kent
CON hold Suffolk central and Ipswich North
LAB hold Birmingham Perry Bar
CON hold Altrincham and Sale West
CON hold Stone
CON hold Thornbury and Yate
LAB gain Weaver vale from con
CON hold Maidstone and the weald
CON hold Witham
CON hold Sleaford and North Hykeham
LAB hold Lancaster and Fleetwood
CON hold Bexhill and Battle
LAB hold Stretford and Urmston
CON gain Berwickshire and Roxborough from SNP
LAB hold Ashton under Lyne
CON hold Richmond (Yorks)
CON hold Haltemprice and Howden
CON hold Shrewsbury and Atcham
CON gain Aberdeenshire west and Kincardine from SNP
CON gain Stirling from SNP
LAB hold Batley and Spen
LAB hold Bradford West
LAB hold Scunthorpe
LAB gain Croydon Central from CON
CON hold Spelthorne
Total seats won
475 of 650 seats declared at 9 Jun 04.00 BST
Con
207
(-10)
Lab
209
(+23)
LD
10
(+5)
SNP
29
(-14)
DUP
10 (+2)
Others
10
Latest declarations
Theresa May holds Maidenhead with a 45.4% majority 3 minutes ago
Con hold Weston-Super-Mare with a 20.5% majority 3 minutes ago
Lib Dem win Edinburgh West with a 5.7% majority 3 minutes ago
Key seats
Theresa May holds Maidenhead with a 45.4% majority 3 minutes ago
Lib Dem win Edinburgh West with a 5.7% majority 3 minutes ago
Con win Berwickshire, Roxburgh & Selkirk with a 17.9% swing 3 minutes ago
)
(Guardian
CON hold Stourbridge
WTF are the Haggis bashers up to ? Idiots.
“Tess of the Maidenhead”
LAB gain Leeds NW from LD
LAB gain Lincoln from CON
Cons need 109 of the 157 seats remaining to gain a majority.
😦 Cons have for the first time today have more seats than Labour, 224 vs 220
LAB gain warrington south from CON
SF gain Fermanagh and South Tyrone from UUP
CON gain Mansfield from LAB
CON hold Cambridgeshire NE
LAB hold Brent North
SNP hold Edinburgh North and Leith
CON hold Welwyn Hatfield
LAB hold Dulwich and West Norwood
SNP hold Motherwell and Wishaw
LAB hold Luton South
CON hold Penrith and the Border
CON hold Congleton
CON hold Bromley and Chislehurst
SNP hold Livingston
LAB hold Huddersfield
LAB gain Reading East from CON
CON hold Rossendale and Darwen
SNP hold Ayrshire Central
CON hold Aylesbury
CON hold Eddisbury
LAB hold Derby South
CON hold Norfok SW
LAB hold Edinburgh South
CON hold Devon SW
CON hold Daventry
CON hold Surrey SW
SNP hold Ross Skye and Lochaber
CON hold Thanet South
CON hold Banbury
CON hold Brigg and Goole
CON hold Poole
CON hold York Outer
CON hold Herefordshire North
LAB hold Bradford East
CON hold Devon East
CON hole Rochester and Strood
CON hold Broxtowe
Con hold Hertfordshire SE
SNP hold Edinburgh SW
CON Hold chetlenham
LAB hold Bolsover
CON gain gordon from SNP (Alex Salmond defeated)
CON hold Gillingham and Rainham
CON hold Leicestershire South
CON hold Kingswood
LAB hold Holborn and St Pancras
LAB hold Dewsbury
CON hold Corby
CON hold Chatham and Aylesford
LAB gain Plymouth Sutton and Devonport from CON
CON hold Old Bexley and Sidcup
Lab hold Blyth Valley
CON hold Tatton
CON hold Milton Keynes South
CON hold Shipley
CON hold Dorset Mid and Poole North
LAB hold Denton and Reddish
CON hold Elmet and Rothwell
CON hold Morecambe and Lunesdale
LAB hold Enfield North
Lab gain Colne Valley from CON
CON hold Hazel Grove
CON hold Derbyshire Mid
CON hold Yorkshire East
LAB hold Hampstead and Kilburn
I am surprised at the SNP wipeout. Perhaps Scottish voters don’t want to leave the United Kingdom
How many voters in each electorate in the UK, looks like Maidenhead has about 100,000 voters
According to a Buzzfeed graphic – see below, Labour would be winning up until quite late then the Tories will win the last seats, but winning 2 out 3 of the undeclared seats looks like a big ask. 5:44am British Time is about 14:44 Australian Time
555 seats counted
CON 258
LAB 233
see https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2017/jun/08/general-election-results-2017-uk-live-labour-tories-corbyn-may-election-results-live-news-line
CON hold Ludlow
bbc vote projection
CON 43%
LAB 40%
LD 8%
UKIP 2%
GRN 2%
LAB hold Stoke on Trent North
CON Hold Beckenham
CON hold Filton and Bradley Stoke
I’m going to finish for a little while before my pay as you go internet runs out.
Con hold Meon Valley with a 47.4% majority 4 minutes ago
Con hold Plymouth Moor View with a 11.0% majority 6 minutes ago
Con hold Cambridgeshire South East with a 25.6% majority 6 minutes ago
Key seats
Liam Fox holds Somerset North with a 27.6% majority 8 minutes ago
Con hold Northampton South with a 2.8% majority 11 minutes ago
Con hold Northampton North with a 2.0% majority 12 minutes ago
4.45am UK time
85 seats left to count
570 of 650 seats declared at 9 Jun 04.44 BST
Con
270
(-11)
Lab
236
(+29)
LD
10
(+4)
SNP
33
(-18)
DUP
10 (+2)
Others
11
68.47% turnout
Latest declarations
Lab hold Edmonton with a 48.3% majority a couple of minutes ago
Con hold Cheadle with a 8.3% majority 4 minutes ago
Con hold Halesowen & Rowley Regis with a 11.8% majority 4 minutes ago
Key seats
Con win Banff & Buchan with a 19.1% swing 5 minutes ago
Liam Fox holds Somerset North with a 27.6% majority 10 minutes ago
Con hold Northampton South with a 2.8% majority 13 minutes ago
I should have done this earlier post