Early days.
Corbyn has restored hope and inspired the young voters. Everyone said it was just Labour Party activists and not real people...but now they're going to have to eat their words. All those opportunist Labour MPs who put Corbyn down on the national media and stabbed him him the back should hang their heads.
Socialism is still relevant in England.

Weirdly it looks like the Scots voting for the Tories might keep them in power nationally. Hope I'm wrong.
If the Scots dumped the SNP and voted Labour we'd have a proper government.

If not now, later (a few months). Kept on telling people recently not to underestimate Corby's Pied Piper qualities. Think they may have thought that was a Yewtree thang,

The worst scenario - a hung parliament!

Firstly though, let me congratulate the Labour party and all their supporters here for putting up such a good fight without actually winning. Without a doubt theirs was far better campaign than the conservatives who's leader was far too over confident. If she remains as our PM maybe she will have learnt to not be so casual about things in future. She took on all before her when continually being blocked into triggering Article 50 but let her own self-belief get the better of her by not campaigning forcefully enough.

I voted in this election with one aim in mind as you know - Brexit, because I believe the conservatives who already had their finger on the trigger, were well prepared to negotiate our way out of Europe - and I still do.

They are still there of course and as they no doubt will call upon the DUP, will have a party that also wanted out so that is a plus for them.

Whatever, they are still here and I hope they learn from their mistakes and looking at the long term - which we all have to - give us what the opposition were offering which they weren't, or we know what will happen next time!

That's my take on it anyway so will leave it at that and now stay silent, other than again say well done to the Labour supporters who got so close.

It's hard not to be amused by the outcome. Just on the level of a cosmic joke. It's literally what would happen if you wrote a really unsubtle parody of the current tory party.

Abandoning a small but workable majority, they called an election that was not legally required -- and which their leader repeatedly insisted would not be called -- with the aim of increasing their majority in the name of stability.

Now they are left... less than two weeks before the start of arguably the most important political negotiations in a generation for Britain (a timetable, once again, set completely voluntarily by the tories themselves)... without a parliamentary majority.

They are now likely to form the least stable government in the past 30 years (even the conservative/libdem alliance felt internally solid even if it was ideologically dubious). They will be relying on the most right wing mainstream party in the UK to maintain power. Oh lovely!

I mean, forget UKIP... the DUP are proper eye-swiveling, Climate Change denying, sectarian, homophobic "gay conversion therapy", parochial religious nutballs.

I'm currently having a disagreement with an old friend (also used to be a regular here by the way... see if you can guess who! ;-) ) about whether a massive tory majority would have been worse than this.

Obviously neither are scenarios to relish... but on balance I think weak tories propped up by DUP is worse than strong tories.

Which then, in turn, starts to rob this result of the amusement I mentioned before...

Meh...for all of that....
Ya'll ended up with the same fucked up government as us....
stalemated as usual.
Should make for some great hissy-fits during the parliamentary sessions at least though.

Astonishing - remarkable - unbelievable.

But nothing has really changed - we've still got a shitty Tory govt which as it turns out is going to be backed up by the anachronistic, out of touch, homophobic and 'pro-life' extreme right wing DUP.
A great deal happened...but nothing happened.

All those optimistic youthful voters who turned out in huge numbers will probably be thinking they should have stayed in bed. It really is one way to knock back their hard-won enthusiasm to vote.
The only good thing is that Clegg got payback and at least the Corbyn backstabbers have been humiliated.

We so need PR in this country.

Well, that was a giddy few hours.

Too knackered to be coherent (no change) but some immediately positive things from my perspective:

- Record number of women MPs elected
- Huge young voter turnout showing a politically engaged age group who have woken up to the fact that their vote matters and can make a difference. I reckon EU ref was the slap in the face they needed to wake them up
- Affirmation by a large percentage of the electorate, not just Labour Party membership, of Corbyn's leadership and vision
- A great swathe of the electorate rejected the Murdoch-led politics of hate and fear and chose instead to vote for a campaign that was based on policy and hope rather than vague threats and personal attacks on the opponents
- An end to Blairite centrism in the Labour Party (hopefully)
- The greatly reduced mandate for a hard "Brexit at any price"
- UKIP are extinct
- Unlikely to be a vote on bringing back fox hunting now

And some less positive things:

- We still have May (for the moment) and her cabinet of Johnson, Fallon, Rudd, Davies, Hunt, etc. She seems rather tawdry, clinging on now even though she made the election all about her and must surely take responsibility for the outcome.
- The DUP are the most bigoted, right wing, anti-LGBT people you could hope to meet outside of a Saudi arms fair (and Creationist climate-change deniers too for good measure), yet May is prepared to give them power to keep herself clinging on
- We were so close to the numbers needed for a broad left coalition. Again my constituency let me down by voting for a Tory, but he had less votes than the combined LD/Labour votes (not even including 900 Green votes). FPTP sucks.
-WTF happened in Scotland? Kezia Dugdale should resign for urging voters to vote Tory. She may have done a lot there to keep Labour out of a potential coalition - those seats the Tories took from the SNP in Scotland were crucial to the overall numbers.

What's next? The Tories are certainly not dead, that's for sure. A different leader, a different manifesto (especially one that sees them back away from the "dementia tax" threat) could probably see them back in with a majority. But on the other hand, a concerted effort by the left-leaning parties could see them locked out.

A coalition with the DUP seems to be everyone's least preferred option (probably even quite a lot of Tory MPs won't be happy). But the irony of a Tory smear campaign based on criticising Corbyn's supposed links with terrorists ending up with them cosying up with the DUP (UVF) is beyond parody.

Part of me thinks there is some justice in Johnson, Davies and Fox still being left to pick up the Brexit pieces, but I still think they will be a desperately poor representation of British interests. There was always a big risk to Labour in being responsible for the negotiations, for many remainers that would be seen to pursuing a course of madness, for a vocal section of the leavers they would be criticised for being too soft. It still comes back to the point though that there was only one question on the referendum ballot, and that to assume you know what all leavers wanted because the Express/Mail told you was always going to be a high risk strategy. Not all leave voters wanted Brexit at any price, and I think that has been reflected in this election result.

Interesting times ahead. Obviously in the anything but stable world of UK politics everything I've written above will probably have been proved wrong by events by the time I press "Post Message".

Great result for labour, not a win by any stretch, but a bloody nose for Tory arrogance who thought they were untouchable. Gotta be one of the most disastrous political campaigns in British political history, it's almost like she didn't want the job. Still surprised how well the right did in Scotland, but it looks like independence might be on the back burner for a while. Still not sure how they are gonna tackle the brexit issue, esp. since the Tories have a weaker hand now. Got so engrossed in things last night I stayed up till the end, it was great TV, esp the ITV coverage (was flicking between channels most of the night).

This track is still as apt as it was back in the 80's, shold have been Jezza's battle cry....

Newtown Neurotics - Kick Out the Tories
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqRtFqoVW6k

Finally called for Labour by 20 votes. Unbelievable that Kensington has a Labour MP elected on a "tax the rich" manifesto.

Two nice ironies about that one, Daily Mail HQ is now in a Labour constituency and Victoria Borwick the defeated Conservative MP was the main protagonist in getting the total ivory ban pledge taken out of the Tory manifesto.

CarolineJMolloy? @carolinejmolloy 1h1 hour ago

Tory minister on #r4today says they will have a vote on reducing time limits on abortion in exchange for DUP support.

What can you say?

Putting the boot on the other foot, if the election results were reversed so that the Labour party needed exactly the same amount of seats as the conservatives did - who would they have formed a coalition with seeing that the Liberals had made it quite clear early on that they would not form a coalition with either the Conservatives or Labour?

http://www.libdems.org.uk/coalition

Hunt keeps job, unjustifiably, to avoid creating enemy, Gove reappointed, unjustifiably, to neutralise enemy.

Today we're being asked to be relieved that Hard Brexit has gone and consensual politics is here, but I think the old boy summed up the reality on TV last night: The next 2 years are going to comprise Europe saying, over and over, "No, THESE are the terms".

"Leave" have constantly implied we have a strong hand and we don't. We don't even have one in discussion with the DUP. Gove has just said "we must ensure Brexit is blah, blah, blah". I bet he knows better.

Am I right in thinking that Farron just resigned so he can spend more time with his homophobia?

A neighbour just posited the scary opinion that he left to pave the way for another Tory-Lib Dem coalition.

One of my kids expressed fleeting sympathy for a woman who is now staring at ongoing humiliation with no scope for escape but fortunately Owen Jones has explained there's no need...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jun/14/theresa-may-must-go-election-campaign

Corbyn killing it at the beginning of parliament (skip to about 14.58): http://parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/0784ef19-a1bb-49c0-9039-279b4b1fa664