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December 13, 2019The Tsunami Boris Johnson has been relentless: the Tory, winning an absolute majority with over 360 seats (according to the latest projections), have won a landslide victory and given the conservative prime minister "a strong mandate to go all the way with the Brexit ". The labor suffered a humiliating defeat that forced the leader, Jeremy Corbyn, to announce that "in the next election he will not be leading the Party". Celebrate the Scottish National Party (NSP), led by Prime Minister Nicola Sturgeon, which aims at 55 seats, and already claims a second referendum for independence. The Lib Dems are worse than expected (the projections give them a maximum of 13 seats) and their leader in Westminster, Jo Swinson, is not re-elected. Just as the leader of the Dup, the Northern Irish unionists, in the Belfast college was also rejected. They are two of the excellent victims of a night that redesigned the political map of Britain and opened the doors to conservatives in the Labor strongholds."It seems to be a great victory for Boris," the head of the White House, Donald Trump, who has always been a great supporter of the former mayor of London, tweeted. And it is.
Looking like a big win for Boris in the UK!
- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 13, 2019"It seems that the Tories have been given a very strong new electoral mandate to complete the Brexit and unite this country and carry it forward," said BoJo, also celebrating his victory at the newly regained Uxbridge-South Ruislip college.
The party will come forward with the first hypotheses for the approval of the Brexit agreement reached by Johnson with Brussels: in the House of Commons the vote could be scheduled already before Christmas.
It is the best result since Thatcher's time and makes Corbyn's Party debacle even more bitter, which stops, in the best projections, at 199 seats, the worst since 1935. The showdown is already underway. "It is the fault of one man, his campaign, his manifesto, his leadership", says Siobhan McDonagh, a Labor candidate. And the former Labor Interior Minister, Alan Johnson, outgoing deputy, adds: "I never imagined that we could go below 200 seats. This is Corbyn".
And to think that it's only been two years since Jeremy Corbyn was celebrated as a rock star. Certainly the accusations of anti-Semitism addressed to his party have weighed heavily, and certainly also the repeated criticisms - that Prime Minister Boris Johnson has never failed to reproach him - of never having been sufficiently clear on the mother of all battles, in Great Britain , or Brexit.
The majority with which the Tories have won the British legislative elections is always larger. Of the 450 seats assigned out of 650, the conservatives have won 236 (+32). The Labor party has achieved 155, 44 less than the current composition of the House of Commons. The Scottish National Party has 36 seats, 12 more. The LibDems are still at 7. Meanwhile, the pound is flying against euro and dollar.
Johnson rejoices: we are the largest democracy in the world
"Thanks to everyone in our great country, to those who voted, to those who were volunteers, to those who have applied. We live in the largest democracy in the world". Boris Johnson tweeted immediately after the release of the exit polls that signaled for the conservatives the conquest of an absolute majority in the House of Commons.
Who voted, who volunteered, who stood as candidates. We live in the greatest democracy in the world. pic.twitter.com/1MuEMXqWHq
- Boris Johnson (@BorisJohnson) December 12, 2019Laborers: for us it's a shock
If it is confirmed "it is an extremely disappointing result for the party and for the whole movement". It is the first Labor reaction to exit polls through the mouth of Shadow Shadow Chancellor, John McDonnell. At the BBC he admits that "it came as a shock: we knew it would be difficult because Brexit dominated," he added. The BBC notes that this is the worst result for the party since 1935 and the political scientist Michael Thrasher states that Jeremy Corbyn will be remembered as "the worst Labor leaders in history". McDonnell, however, postpones the decisions on possible resignation to the official results. But on the Labor Party, Twitter has bounced the hashtag #CorbynOut, meaning "via Corbyn".
Sturgeon: exit polls indicate that the country is sad
"The exit polls indicate a good night for the SNP but they are only forecasts and there are many margins, so we wait and see. What emerges is that the country is sad". This is what the Scottish Prime Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, leader of the National Scotland Party, has tweeted. And Angus Robertson, the former Snp group leader, told the BBC that if the 55 seats in his party were to be confirmed, "Scottish requests cannot be denied." An allusion to the request for a second referendum on the independence of Scotland.
Exit poll suggests good night for @theSNP - but it is just an exit poll and there are many marginals, so let's just wait and see. What it indicates UK wide though is grim. # GE19
- Nicola Sturgeon (@NicolaSturgeon) December 12, 2019Removed the specter of the "hung" Parliament
The polls, however, had reported in the last few days a braking of the Tories and a recovery of Corbyn's Labor, evoking the specter of "Hung Parliament", the "hung Parliament" which lacks a certain majority to govern. Specter that seems definitively removed from the vote.
The Lib Lib leader is in danger of losing his seat
The leader of the Liberal Democrats, Jo Swinson, according to exit polls, would have lost his seat in East Dunbartonshire, won by the National Party of Scotland. A blow to the deputy who had been elected to head the party just three months ago.
Farage takes no seats but is consoled: Brexit will be made
Nigel Farage, an icon of the Brexit, does not get seats but is consoled because, he says, with Johnson's victory London will finally leave the European Union. His Brexit Party, according to exit polls, does not even elect a deputy in Westminster: in the colleges where the conservative candidate risked not being elected, Farage's party had decided not to run. "We have helped Boris Johnson very much," says the leader.
Conte: "Good Luck" to the next premier
"Good Luck", good luck. This is the message that Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte sends to the next British prime minister. The Prime Minister thus responds to those who question him in the margins of the European Council in Brussels.