Oh Dear.

[newmodarmy]

https://news.sky.com/story/sky-news-projection-labour-on-course-to-be-largest-party-but-short-of-overall-majority-13128242

[newmodarmy]

So maybe there will be coalitions. Or even a second election.

 

[ToraToraTora]

Oh no not another Lib/Lab pact!

[davebro3]

A second election in short order would probably give a similar result so not really worth it. They would have to cobble something together IMV.

[ToraToraTora]

stop it you'll have gully jumping in front of a bus!

[bhg481]

davebro - it worked for Harold Wilson in 1965

[ToraToraTora]

If that was the result Labour would do a deal with the Lib non dems or the SNP but even if they did not Sir Beer coold still form a minority government. Our system means that we are not used to having minority governments but they are common in PR countries. They usually implode within a year so I'd predict another GE after apporx 1 year of a minority government.

[gulliver1]

So the Lib Dems pushed the  Tories into 3rd place in the local elections then.

[gulliver1]

The Tories turned Britain into a third Country with Brexit. And now the tories have been turned into a  third party by the Lib Dems with the local elections.🤣Good.

[jno]

I don't buy that. You can't project a limited number of local elections (and one parliamentary by-election) onto a nationwide general election.

As someone pointed out, Thrasher's projection has Labour win only one seat in Scotland - because there weren't any elections in Scotland at the weekend, so he's had to stick with the single seat they won last time. Other people think they'll win a dozen or more given the SNP implosion.

[youngmafbog]

Labour need to start winning rather than letting the TINO's loose.

Even Mr Blunket doesnt thing its a done deal for a large majority.

[ichkeria]

Sunak was scaremongering about a hung parliament, although the analysis here suggests that he may have been wasting his time on two counts. One: there's unlikely to be one. And two: there's apparently little evidence that people were influenced by similar scare tactics in 2015

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68964302