UK General Election

4: Liberals, Sinn Fein maybe others may very well refuse to work with labour so it could indeed be total gridlock

5: Regardless, May is screwed and tories aren't looking so hot. 

It seems to me people had a bit of a "jerk back to reality" after brexit after happened and many regretted it. Surely many urban voters were pissed off. Why did May even call this election???

Every week I am reminded more and more that politics really is the same all over. Sounds like an eerily close to home picture. Indeed, I recall rogerthat and I discussed that elsewhere, the 1930s sure did feel like it was on repeat, but damn...things have gone even more this way than I expected. 

Though I do maintain slivers of hope always, before immigrants and Muslims it was austerity, much like here before police shootings opened up the racial chasm and we turned to xenophobia, it was bailouts, too much $ in government, etc etc  all that got swept under the rug a bit. Let's hope it can be resurrected. People are reactionary by nature and sadly...not prone to think first. Makes it hard for Sanders, Corbyn to get people to listen. I still hope people are starting to see the collective wake up call though. 1: that the neoliberal orthodoxy has kinda f**ked things up but 2: right wing populism is no way out, and is just gunna use and screw you. So keep the racism and fear to yourself and start thinking! 

I know nothing of UK politics and results are early but I'm hearing there's a not insignificant swing to labour in one area. If these exit polls are right, it's gunna be one crazy time.

Likewise, so would a Labour-SNP-SF-PC alliance. The liberals may be the key to a coalition, or gridlock. Least that's how I'm reading all this. For the moment they refuse to work with either. Seems silly...compromise must be better than gridlock, is there any hope that Corbyn calls for a 2nd referendum to get the liberals on board?

No surprise, UKIP has been wiped off the map, SNP taken quite a hit apparently to both labour and tories. Can anyone explain why? I thought they owned Scotland basically. 

Do want to say, with all the similarities in US and UK politics I noticed another: I remember the shock, and horror, at Corbyn's success, but "it wont last" and "it will doom the party". I saw probably 20 articles over time how "he's toast" "this is the end of him". Yeah...how's that panned out? 

It reminds me very much of Sanders here, "it wont last" "oh well OK he'll die in Nevada. Oh well South Carolina. Oh well super tuesday. Hmmmm well he'll fizzle anyway it's over" and also how he would be an obvious loss for the Democrats. Again...how did that pan out? Just interesting the media/powers that be loathe these labor populists as much as the right wing anti EU ones, but it just isn't going away. 

As you say lazland, politics is becoming very divided everywhere. Another similarity. 

I think, based on this result as well as Macron's big win in France, that people are already beginning to baulk at the extreme right, which is a good thing. As Teo said, Trump may be scaring off people in other parts of the world from voting in right wing governments/leaders.  And because the right is being forced to move to the centre again (Macron), it presents yet another opportunity to the ailing left to wake up.  At least there, the Labour party did the right thing by persisting with Corbyn unlike, ahem, the Democrats.  People don't want to listen to more and more platitudes from politicians who have promised the moon to deliver next to nothing.  They want to see people who relate to their anger.  And while I am skeptical of populists from either side, at least a leftist within a democratic set up is a better alternative to the right.