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They are basically the NI nationalist party, with pretty solid religious leaning too.

They also apparently favour a soft Brexit so... yeah, Mrs. May has kinda fucked up on a grand scale. I find it hard to believe she's going to survive politically having just presided over a massive collapse in opinion polls and having to team up with something of an extreme party to get things done.

So... what does this mean for Brexit? Are the Tories going to waste more time with coalition talks and a leadership contest before, you know, getting a team together to figure out what their negotiating positions actually are, and actually starting the talks?

It did occur to me that the Laor politicians don't really like Corbyn so... maybe there's a chance enough of them will rebel and support the Tories, but that's also a risky prospect, seeing as that will very likely be looked upon as massive betrayal by the grass roots members.

Basically whoever the minority parties want to work with.

It's a hung parliament I think. The SNP (31 seats so far, thank fuck) are going to be the third largest party, nobody will work with them 'cause Indyref2 is on the table, nobody wants that. I think the Lib Dems are going to demand another Brexit referendum, so it's unlikely anyone will work with them.

Not sure about the rest of the parties, to be fair... the DUP I think most closely align with the Tories, so maybe they get the slimmest of margins, perhaps on a case-by-case basis with them.

It didn't have anything to do with Brexit though. The moderation log pretty much explains it.

Ah, I see.

It bothers me to the point of feeling betrayed that Scotland has elected more Tory MPs this year than they have in the last 20 years combined.

SNP have 25/59 seats so far, 22 seats left to call it.

Still on track for more than half the seats in Scotland guys hardly a crushing loss.

SNP are certainly unlikely to be able to hold everything. I think the last election (in which there were record-breaking swings across the board) was something of an outlier, and this is things returning mostly to normal.

It is terrifying