Dave T-W @davoloid@qoto.org

@summerbeth Stayed up for Shapps, Keegan and Morduant, sadly saw IDS hold on to his, and Braverman.

Old frog face doesn't look as smug now he's reached the Clacton counting centre. Here's hoping another chancer gets told. #GEUK24

#UKGE24 Chingford constituency stays with Tories under IDS. Independent candidate looked to have a moment of realisation that whatever the issue was between her and Labour, that had gifted this result.

#ukge24 Conservatives lose Welwyn. Sad day for Defence Secretaries Michael Green, Corinne Stockheath and Sebastian Fox.

Hurrah, that Russian-backed chancer Galloway is out. #GE2024

ReformUK have their first seat in #UKGE24 - but 50p Lee Anderson has lost votes since defecting from the Tories. Labour have held here and he just needs to keep showing himself to be the noisy twunt he is.

#GE2024 It's a shame that outgoing Lord Chancellor Robert Buckland has found a moderate voice. Shame he didn't use it when he was in a position to challenge Johnson and Truss.

E.g. Parliament has been a mess for the past few years, reasoned debate and due process bulldozed by May and Johnson. Whenever I watched a debate, opposition was ineffective and often grandstanding. Adding Reform into that mix is going to turn voters off even more.

Underlying all this fragmentation of the #UKPol map, the uncertainty of reconnecting to the EU: the UK itself is breaking apart after 200 years and needs rethinking before we can fix anything else.

@jon I do like that she's rocking that Game of Thrones Grand Maester's chain.

3rd result in for #UKGE and Greens again getting a big boost for their size.

Previous boost of the article by @tferrer is worth a pop through translate if you don't read Spanish. "Portillo and the Lettuce" is all about the glorious political memes and the joys of UK General Election night.

@winkleink My thinking on this ocassion, and also I want that to be considered in (hopefully) a future discussion about Proportional Voting. But I suspect for the majority of voters, these sorts of nuances are less important, and those that do care will have a party membership anyway.

@KimSJ This is particularly important as smaller parties are also more likely to lose their deposits. The Greens lost £232,500 in 2019 because of the number of candidates they put forward.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2019-50781957