Am I missing something? - All UK media are calling result as a Labour landslide.
Labour vote only up 1.7% (31.2 to 33.9) - considering the self destruction of the Tories, that has to be seen as a failure. Labour can probably thank Farage for a huge number of their seat gains. The gains did not come from a surge in Labour support. If anything, that was a failure
Greens seem to the biggest winners - more than doubled their vote. 2.7% to 6.8%
Lib Dems also not as good as some predicted in terms of percentage, (11.5 to 12.2) but due to the split conservative vote with reform, they managed to make huge seat gains.
Tories, despite their greatest efforts to self destruct, came in at 23.7% - better than all the polls were suggesting, whilst their even further right sided twin, Reform, aka "The Farage Show", took 14.3%, but because they had no planning and due to the archaic 1st past the post system, got a mere 4 seats.
Labour should not be too gleeful - if the Tories took back just half the reform votes it would be a hung parliament. So Starmer needs to prove himself and possibly even try and develop a likeable personality, otherwise its one term only for him
Labour vote only up 1.7% (31.2 to 33.9) - considering the self destruction of the Tories, that has to be seen as a failure. Labour can probably thank Farage for a huge number of their seat gains. The gains did not come from a surge in Labour support. If anything, that was a failure
Greens seem to the biggest winners - more than doubled their vote. 2.7% to 6.8%
Lib Dems also not as good as some predicted in terms of percentage, (11.5 to 12.2) but due to the split conservative vote with reform, they managed to make huge seat gains.
Tories, despite their greatest efforts to self destruct, came in at 23.7% - better than all the polls were suggesting, whilst their even further right sided twin, Reform, aka "The Farage Show", took 14.3%, but because they had no planning and due to the archaic 1st past the post system, got a mere 4 seats.
Labour should not be too gleeful - if the Tories took back just half the reform votes it would be a hung parliament. So Starmer needs to prove himself and possibly even try and develop a likeable personality, otherwise its one term only for him