The Labour Party have made massive gains in this election, showing that there is growing appetite for their policies of ending austerity, no more cuts to public services, no dementia tax or pension cuts, funding schools properly, saving the NHS and ending tuition fees.After months of the media bashing Corbyn, he has proved them all wrong and shown he has the strength to lead.
There were larger turnouts than normal (68.7%) and yet the Conservatives won less than 1M more votes than Labour - only a 2.4% margin. The Conservatives lost 12 seats and Labour gained 29 seats.
We cannot allow the Conservatives to form a right-wing coalition with the homophobic, anti-choice DUP - no concessions to them must be made. The way to avoid this is for Labour's plan for Government to be passed, and for Jeremy Corbyn to become our new Prime Minister.NumbersThe Conservatives only won 29.14% of votes
of the total electorate, 29.77% if you add DUP votes. However, the combined progressive parties of Labour, SNP, the Greens, Lib Dems and Plaid Cymru won 36.06% of votes of the total electorate. Because we don't have proportional representation, the allocation of seats does not represent the votes overall across the UK, so the Conservatives got a lot more seats than Labour despite not getting many more votes. And the Greens got only one seat despite getting a lot more votes than the DUP, who got ten seats!
