is it dead yet?

In sum. This was a deeply odd set of results. A triumph for Labour but on a low turnout and thinly spread. A Tory catastrophe. The Tory/Labour vote share at the lowest in history. 35% of the vote for Labour rewarded with 65% of the seats. How robust is the coalition? Starmer is in Johnson's 19 position but x10. An odd patchwork of seats which does't necessarily cohere, where he will have to look left and right, liberal and conservative. It is gong to require some political magic to keep them together. . Starmer made few political arguments in teh campaign. He's going to have to make some now, in order to sustain his majority. And Labour has to deliver- because if if it doesn't it's easy to see this triumph quickly eroding. Because if we've learned anything in recent years it has to be that there's no permanent settlements left in British electoral demography. The SNP hegemony- gone. The Tory hegemony- gone. The electorate is more volatile than ever. What they give, they can take away more quickly than ever. Because with these results Britain is more marginal than ever. At the constituency level seats are tighter than any point since 1945. There is no such thing as a safe seat any more.