{"id":180266,"date":"2017-06-08T23:02:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-09T04:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/06\/08\/hung-parliament-in-the-uk\/"},"modified":"2017-06-08T23:02:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-09T04:02:00","slug":"hung-parliament-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/06\/08\/hung-parliament-in-the-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Hung Parliament in the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Whatever the final result, our positive campaign has changed politics for the better. pic.twitter.com\/EHLta2rnIW<\/a><\/div>\n

\u2014 Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) June 9, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

Not all the votes are celled, but as it stands right now, 12:00 midnight EDT, it’s certain that the Tories will lose seats and it’s almost certain that they will not have an outright majority in parliament.  (Live results are here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

So, either the Conservatives will have to find someone to join a coalition, most likely with the DUP<\/a> (Democratic Unionist Party of Northern Ireland) or have a minority government.<\/p>\n

I expect Theresa May to be out within the next few months, possibly replaced by Boris Johnson.<\/p>\n

In addition to the Tories, the losers tonight appear to be the Scottish National Party (SNP) who have lost even more seats than the Conservatives, (-18 vs -14) and they started with a much smaller base.<\/p>\n

I think that another referendum on Scottish independence is off the table for the immediate future, <\/p>\n

It’s pretty clear that Jeremy Corbin is a winner, and the New Labour wing of the party who have sabotaged him at every turn are now doing their best to make nice.<\/p>\n

I’m not sure how Corbyn will proceed from here, but he is now clearly and unequivocally the leader of Labour, which gives him some latitude to clean house within the party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Whatever the final result, our positive campaign has changed politics for the better. pic.twitter.com\/EHLta2rnIW \u2014 Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) June 9, 2017 Not all the votes are celled, but as it stands right now, 12:00 midnight EDT, it’s certain that the Tories will lose seats and it’s almost certain that they will not have an outright …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[375,371,374],"class_list":["post-180266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-elections","tag-europe","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180266"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}