...we now have two very good pro-Remain MEP's from Sheffield representing Yorkshire.

Basically the OAP block vote has gone en mass to Farage's Brexit pity party. Labour and Conservatives have both done very badly.

It's been quite a weird election in that you had Lib Dem's, Greens and Change UK/ TIG all concentrating exclusively on remainers, the far right concentrating exclusively on Leave supporters, Labour trying to please both sides (and failing badly) and the Tories waving a white flag at Nigel Farage. Britain is badly divided and nobody is even trying to unite the nation.

I'm convinced a certain segment of the population is lazy enough they'd rather give up than fight all the challenges in front of us!

And by give up, I mean become craven, self-serving, racist, misogynist, xenophobic, flat-earther haters! It's just easier to blame other people.

and when the Scottish results come in (SNP doing very well), the "definitely Remain" parties may outweigh the "definitely Leave". What we don't know, of course, is the feelings of those who stuck with Tory and Labour - clearly they both lost a lot of votes in both directions. This vote had been a sort of national opinion poll, but with Tory/Labour votes maddeningly unclear.

However, unless we somehow get a new referendum, that won't affect things. We need Tory rebels to join with MPs to force that (or a general election), or we default into No Deal.

One wonders why.

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now Brexit rather than UKIP but it's basically the same thing with a new name.

However, we now have 3 LibDems and 1 Tory, instead of the other way round. And 1 Green and 1 Labour, as before.

The numbers I'm seeing indicate that more people voted for pro-Remain parties (LD, Green, SNP, PC Change etc) than voted for pro-Leave (Brexit, UKIP).

The two main parties have no idea what to do regarding Brexit. Labour have no clear stance. The Conservatives want to leave but are divided on how much leave there should be (hard Brexit, Brexit in name only, etc).

I'm hoping that there will be a new referendum and there will be a clear "Bollocks to Brexit" message given.

Mind the spin.

Whoever is going to be the new PM will use the results to say - see people clearly voted for Brexit Party over the Tories because their message is clear - the people clearly want a no deal Brexit and the EU elections result will be sold as the 'people's vote'. They will ignore the fact that if you add up all of the clear remain parties they are in the lead. We are about t be lead by a hard Brexiteer (unless a miracle happens) and they will use this result to take us further to the the right wing dystopian rabbit hole.

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as long as you make your intentions clear: