Late Result: Labour Win In Kensington After 3 Recounts.

[Gromit]

One of the richest constituencies in the country, and never before had a Labour MP.

This has to be one of the most bizarre results of this election.

Further proof how the Tories got this contest so badly wrong.

Do you think this final straw seals May's eventual ousting?

[Old_Geezer]

I suspect many new to a job, PMs included, need help settling in. One wonders why she would only trust those two. Surely they alone weren't responsible for arranging all other PM candidates to drop out ? All seems very strange to me, but maybe that's politics for you.

[jim360]

Because who to vote for is subjective. Both parties have faults, deciding which is worse is a judgement call not an objective reality. As long as you don't get that, then you'll continue making the smae mistakes.

But anyway. Two choices (two realistic ones), and you have to pick one of them. As I stressed several times before the election, I wasn't particularly sure I wanted a Labour majority -- just didn't want a Tory one either. Oh, and I wanted the SNP to take a battering. So I got what I voted for, pretty much.

[fender62]

mikey, how could anyone with an ounce of sanity be pro corbyn, i would not want him for a neighbor, let alone running the country i live in, up the ira, workers down tools let's go on strike, ban the bomb, jihadists are good people really, just misguided, and islam is a religion (ideology) of peace, war to the unbeliever, corbyn the appologist sympathiser, poke on the outside, but the man has no metal, would sell this country down the bog, waving a white flag, err let's start a debating forum, print some pamphlets, not a leader of nuclear armed country...no way, the military would take him out.

[vetuste_ennemi]

//Now she has 'advisers ' who do not believe in evolution ,want abortion to become a crime , consider the Pope to be the 'Antichrist and abandon human rights for gay and transexual people.//

You speak as though you think these views are antiquated oddities based on ignorance and prejudice, Eddie. How many Labour voters do you think hold very similar ideas? More or less than the total DUP vot of 290,000?

[Deskdiary]

Naomi at 18.53 has skillfully in very few words summed up my thoughts exactly.

One of my favourite bits over the past couple of weeks is Corbyn saying (paraphrasing) we'll keep Trident, but I'll never use it.

Another bit I enjoyed was (and again paraphrasing) 'I've never met with the IRA' and then 'oh wait, yes I have'

I'm in the enviable position, some might say, that Corbyn's promises such as the success tax and the promise to pay for his spending promises with ground up unicorn horn wouldn't have hugely adversely affected me, yes, I'd have been worse off financially, but I'd've survived, so a perverse part of me, for a nanosecond, wanted Labour to win just to see how royally they could balls everything up this time.

[naomi24]

Jim, // Both parties have faults, deciding which is worse is a judgement call not an objective reality. As long as you don't get that, then you'll continue making the smae mistakes.//

If you claim to understand that, why don't you?

Deskdiary, //a perverse part of me, for a nanosecond, wanted Labour to win just to see how royally they could balls everything up this time.//

Music to my ears. Among all the ‘ifs’, ‘buts’, ‘wheres’, ‘whyfores’ and anything else that has been promulgated here over recent weeks, I have expressed similar sentiments. A clear case of be careful what you wish for....

[jim360]

What do you mean, "why don't I understand"? I'm fairly sure I do. Labour have faults, so do the Tories; and in my judgement I preferred to give my vote to Labour.

[naomi24]

I know.

[TTG]

It's a kneejerk reaction to the "dementia tax" and social media hysterics. The pre-election aggression and profanities of Labour voters on facebook was astounding.

[ToraToraTora]

I think Mrs May will have to go but I think the country needs a breather so she'll stay for now. Expect a Tory Leadership contest within a year.

[emmie]

no, this borough also has some of the poorest people in the capital, those might well be your labour voters.