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The Tories have lost the seats held by recent former leaders Michael Howard, David Cameron, Theresa May, and Boris Johnson (one of his two seats).
I was delighted to see Liz Truss narrowly lose her very safe seat just now.
Former leader Ian Duncan Smith and current one Rishi Sunak held theirs, the former only because a Muslim candidate split the Labour vote.
Liz Truss's Deputy Prime Minister Therese Coffey lost her seat.
In England the Labour Party scarcely won more votes than last time when they lost to a Tory landslide and got 5 percent less of the vote then in 2017 under Jeremy Corbyn.
The electorate voted against the Tories (and the SNP), not for Labour or the Liberal Democrats.
Labour was what they knew they were getting. There is no other way to get rid of the Tories than to have a Labour government but there seems to be little enthusiasm for or excitement about the new government, very unlike in 1997.
The Labour victory is a house without foundations.
Disappointingly, Sir Keir Starmer held his seat despite losing a lot of votes to a pro Palestinian candidate.
George Galloway is out.
Nigel Farage is one of [five] Reform MPs, not 14 as the exit poll predicted.
[Five] pro Palestinian independents won, including Jeremy Corbyn, and 4 Greens.
The Liberal Democrats won fewer votes than Reform but over [seventy] seats, their highest number since Asquith was leader.
The SNP was smashed and presumably Scottish independence won't ever happen, but I am confident that Brexit had already killed the idea.
The ill-named James Cleverly got in.
The beautiful, eloquent but meretricious and woke Penny Mordaunt lost.
She would have done better as leader than Mr Sunak.
So would Boris Johnson, though the long term damage he would have done to his party in two more years would be great.
Military idiot Johnny Mercer is out. The other military idiot, Tom Tugendhat, got in. Oh to see the warmongers go but I doubt we have.
Steve Baker lost because of Reform and the pro Palestinian candidate. Mr Baker says he is very to be free of the House and won't stand again.
It was an exciting end to what would have been, by some way, the dullest election campaign in my lifetime except for one man.
He was Nigel Farage, who mentioned controversial things like Brexit, immigration, Ukraine and said that the NHS needs replacing by an insurance scheme.
The Prime Minister is flying to meet the King. I am not sure exactly why I'd prefer it but he could have taken the train. He has no need to hurry.
He could have stayed in office till January or resigned months ago in favour of Penny. Instead...
So, if you ask me, Labour did terribly (share of the vote, not seats, and there is now the potential for a parliamentary party being formed on Labour's left), Libs not as well as they think etc. etc. There is only one party that may be happy with this long term, apart from Reform and Sinn Fein who should also be quietly pleased, and that is in fact the SNP. Yes they were obliterated seat wise, but they were only a few % behind Labour in Scotland overall, and are sure to make them up and emerge renewed once Labour have to govern.
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