Exit polls, first results and the biggest winners and losers – here’s how ‘the most important election in a generation’ unfolded overnight as it became clear the Conservative party was headed for a strong majority while Labour faced its worst results in decades.

What some of us already knew about the 2019 General Election:

You can’t win a democratic contest promising to cancel a democratic referendum?

Surprisingly, what a lot of people did not seem to get is that the election was heavily dominated by Brexit, so Labour had no chance of winning by saying they were going to have a second referendum on Europe.

Labour tried hard to shift the agenda of the General Election away from Brexit onto other issues, such as their economic polices and anti-austerity message.  Indeed much of what they laid out in their somewhat over-inflated, packed to the hilt, manifesto were pretty universally popular policies and ideas.

But the reality was it wouldn’t have made any difference what they had proposed, what went into their manifesto or what didn’t.  Because the voters were only too aware that without the Brexit issue resolved, and quickly, none of those ideas or policies could be put into practice, under any government of whatever party.

The Guardian must take some credit for Johnson’s victory. Their constant support of Labour Remainers and an anti-Corbyn smear campaign worked a treat for Johnson!

You can see their video from the Election night of Dec 2019 on the link below.

Strangely, the paper doesn’t seem to make any connection between the campaign for a people’s vote, that they more than any other paper supported, and what happened on election night.