The results of yesterday’s 2019 General Election are now in with the Conservatives returned along with a stonking majority of 78 with on seat left to declare – it will likely end up as an 80 seat majority giving Boris Johnson a comfortable buffer to push ahead with his Brexit plan of leaving the EU on the 31st of January. That may or may not please you (Only about 47% of the electorate voted for parties backing leave, so a lot won’t be happy), but that’s the outcome of three years bickering and the last six weeks campaigning.
Leaving the EU is the easy part, there’s still a trade deal to negotiate by the end of 2020 and that’s a tough ask as it depends on the EU coming together to agree the deal on their side.
The 2019 General Election result was clearly Brexit led with the country fed up with what Boris termed as “dither and delay”, but that alone can’t account for Labour’s dismal performance with barely 200 seats. The Jeremy Corbyn effect, although much loved by many, has simply turned off votors who either distrust or dislike the man or didn’t believe he could afford to deliver on his promises and so discounted them. They also refused to believe his scare stories of selling off the NHS and much as he tried to pivot issues away from Brexit that’s what the country came back to.
Across the country many lost their seats such as Anna Soubry, Chuka Umunna and Dominic Grieve who all either deserted their parties or were booted out. Others such as the long standing Dennis Skinner, Labour MP for Bolsover since 1970, were more surprising to see fall.
This was a night when leaders were toppled with Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson seeing her seat go to the SNP and Sinn Féin unseat the DUP Westminster leader Nigel Dodds. It won’t stop here, obviously Jeremy Corbyn has to go and he’s already intimated that he won’t stand at the next election.
Don’t think it will be all plain sailing for Boris with his majority, the likes of which haven’t been seen since the days of Maggie Thatcher. The SNP have done well in Scotland picking up seats from both Conservative and Labour and they are already clamouring for a second independence referendum. The DUP will try to make waves over Northern Ireland’s position in the Brexit Deal, but Boris doesn’t need their support any longer and they’ll find themselves impotent and unable to demand financial sops, but their voice will still be heard.
Most important of all, it’s very obvious that vast swathes of the country have only loaned their votes to the Conservatives and they want to remain in power after their five year term then they need to deliver a country that works for everyone, not just the elite in London. However this election has also changed the Conservative party itself. Having booted dissenters out of the party, and suddenly won a swathe of MPs across the Midlands, North of England and even Wales, the party is no longer one of the South but an army of new MPs will be coming down from the North.
The 2019 General Election hasn’t just put Brexit on a certain path, it’s also changed UK politics for what could be the next decade. Labour will regroup and rally, but winning in five years time is looking very doubtful based on current performance and no party has won the number of seats they would need at a single election.
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