UK election

[StCapps]

Oh, I forgot to mention that the collapse predictions that is expected due to Brexit is mysteriously absent today.

General election 2019: Pound and shares surge

The pound and shares have surged after the Conservatives won a clear majority in the UK general election.

Sterling gained 1.5% to $1.33 - its highest level since June last year - on hopes that the big majority would remove uncertainty over Brexit.

The pound also jumped to a three-and-a-half-year high against the euro.

On the stock market, the FTSE 100 share index rose 1.8%, while the FTSE 250 - which includes more UK-focused shares - leapt 4%, hitting record highs.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the election result meant that the Conservative government "has been given a powerful new mandate, to get Brexit done".

Mr Johnson has pledged to take the UK out of the European Union by 31 January.

I know what's coming though.

They said the same thing when Trump won as you'll recall. How'd that work out for them?

[Hastur]

Final result.

[StCapps]

[Ph64]

Someone last night was giving "by ethnicity" stats, and said something like 70+% of "East Asian" ethnic people (presumably Indian/Sikh, Thai, etc) voted conservative, while the heavily Muslim areas/population voted Labor. I haven't found any ethnic stats to back that up though, of course I would expect that would be considered "racist" to talk about these days.

[Ph64]

"We don't understand... We've spent years now explaining to Brexit voters how they are wrong, and have continually insulted them as racist xenophobic islamophobic homophobic bigoted morons who didn't know what they were voting for...

...and they voted for Brexit *again*!?! Pretty sure we're going to have to double down now on insulting them, ramp up claims of Russian interference too. How dare they not kneel to our obviously superior elite plans!"

[The Conservative]

"We don't understand... We've spent years now explaining to Brexit voters how they are wrong, and have continually insulted them as racist xenophobic islamophobic homophobic bigoted morons who didn't know what they were voting for...

...and they voted for Brexit *again*!?! Pretty sure we're going to have to double down now on insulting them, ramp up claims of Russian interference too. How dare they not kneel to our obviously superior elite plans!"

Sounds like the Democrats of the US...

[Ph64]

[Smitty-48]

Rejoice ! Rejoice !

Take that, ya Bolshevist bastards.

The Iron Lady knows.

[Ph64]

So Guy Verhofstadt, the EU "chief negotiator" on Brexit, tweets...

https://twitter.com/guyverhofstadt/stat ... 44098?s=20

"Brexit will now happen. The British people have confirmed their referendum decision of 2016. The EU must now focus on building a new close, fair and lasting partnership with Britain. It is in our common interest."

I'm curious, if they "must now focus on" building a "close, fair, and lasting partnership" with the UK... What exactly were they focusing on before?? A distant, unfair, and temporary one sided relationship?

[Montegriffo]

Rejoice ! Rejoice !

Take that, ya Bolshevist bastards.

The Iron Lady knows.

Boris is no Iron Lady.
Now he has a majority of 80 he will stop pandering to the MPs on the right like Rees Mogg and his ERG nationalists. He's eliminated the threat from zero seats Farage and his deceased Brexit Party.
He's going back to his Liberal background and a negotiated exit from the EU.
May's deal with Boris's name on it.
The trade negotiations don't even start until his political withdrawal bill passes at the end of January. It could easily take the whole term to finalise Brexit.
Then, if he wants to keep all the Brexit supporting Labour voters who lent him their votes he's going to have to do some spending, particularly in Wales and the North of England.
Labour have nowhere left to go but towards the centre. It's going to take another Tony Blair to get back in power.
The '20s are going to be a rerun of the '90s with an added recession.