They didn’t do that bad really, it just wasn’t reflected in the results. A new further right party showed up and split the right wing vote, which is largely why Labour won. If you look at the total votes the righter win parties did pretty well (Tories are really all that right wing but they did get the right wing vote).

Very impressed with the Greens - four seats is double what was expected. Great result for them.

The Lib Dems have also come out of this really well.

Is jeremy corbyn considered to the left of the Labour party?

Last I checked ~18:00BST

Party     Seats    Votes       %
Lab        412   9,725,117   33.8
Con        121   6,824,610   23.7
Reform       5   4,103,727   14.3
Lib Dem     71   3,501,004   12.2
Green        4   1,941,220    6.8
Indep.       7     841,835    2.9
…

I am personally glad that the next government is not going to be stuffed full with bigoted nationalists from Reform. I can’t help but marvel though at how wonky the system of voting is that let the Lib Dem’s get an order of magnitude more seats than Reform with 600k fewer votes. Reform got just under half Labour’s vote share and only slightly over 1% of their seats.

Labour lost four seats to independents running against its inaction on Gaza.

That's a great wish list, but I'm not sure how many of those will happen. Increased NHS funding is sadly unlikely given your economy and xenophobia against immigrants. I'm hoping you get increased support for green energy, free school meals and rail nationalisation, and at least a modest raise in the minimum wage. Cheap, clean energy, educated and healthy children, and an affordable and reliable transport system can do so much for the economy.

Still let's not forget the right-wing policies from their manifesto:

• Increasing military spending by 13 billion

• Increase police funding

• More border security force to "stop the boats"

• Build more prisons

• Pour money into polluting industries (car gigafactories, steel production, "carbon capture")

• Keep oil and gas production in the North Sea for decades, with the only focus on jobs and none on environmental issues.

So yeah I guess it's better to have an authoritarian social-ish democratic state than an outright fascist one but that's not a very high bar and will only work until the climate crisis boils us all alive :)

I think it's important to note that the primary reason the conservative party lost many of their seats is because their vote was split between them, and an even more right wing party led by Nigel Farage. It wasn't because of a huge shift to the left (or at least the centre left position the labour party occupy right now).

In my constituency for example, if you put the conservative + reform votes together, they would have beaten the nearest competitor by a country mile.

We already have the left wing vote split by Labour, Lib Dem and Green.

If you want to claim the 36%, you'll need to add up the left wing parties together.

But that's better than nothing, right?

Its missleading to bass too much on that analysis. The parties don't compete for the popular vote but to concentrate votes within seats they feel they can win.

No one was aiming to win the popular vote. I agree that's a problem but we can't really read to much into the split imo.

And socially progressive parties got 56% of the vote. But that's split between about 4 parties.

So you're tallying the right wing and comparing vs one party on the "left"?

Not going to happen. They even said it's not going to happen.

I heard that they probably won't, because they are afraid that they would lose support from the large amount of Brexit supporters that now voted labour.

How do you convince the EU to let us back in?

We'll need a couple of Labour terms before they'll answer the phone.

Pretty sure our right wing is left of your left wing. So no you can't have it because you don't have a system that supports anything other than the right-wing hellscape you got now.

Leadership that detests trans people and wants to genocide Palestinians? You're in luck, bud! You get that no matter who wins!