This is usually fought over in stages until one emerges but the feuds have already started and a "Stop Boris" (Johnson) campaign has started .
Meanwhile after the last voting on Sunday elsewhere in Europe was concluded, vote counting started in Great Britain with Northern Ireland which used a different voting system to us plus the Western Isles of Scotland starting Monday.
Scottish politics has been different since devolution and while the actual seats allocated care of the D'Honda kinda proportional but not quite system won't be know for sure by Monday the strongly pro EU Scottish Nationalists look likely to take all but one seat and the other going to The Brexit Party as Scottish Labour and the Conservatives hemorrhaged votes badly.
Meanwhile in England and Wales the ruling Conservatives achieved the lowest proportion of the popular vote since 1832 and Labour lost a good deal of support in pro leave areas and not help by having a confused message for those who did wish to remain.
Stop anyone on on the streets of Stoke, Aldridge, Wolverhampton, Cannock, Wednesbury, Stourbridge, Birmingham, Rugby and Telford and they'd tell you they voted to leave and even those who didn't have little time for those responsible for us not leaving so people voted Brexit Party to make it plain what they want - to leave - and to which we were promised would be respected and acted upon.
We don't have time for people fighting to deny what people voted for here regardless of our own views and that attempt to do so is something that has left people quite angry.
It was no surprise to me Rupert Lowe, Martin Daubney and Andrew Kerr of the Brexit party won seen here at Birmingham's ICC celebrating where our count was held were declared representatives.
Labour got no one elected and there was one each for the Green Party, thePro EU Liberal Democrats and the Conservatives.
The only major exception was London where four Liberal Democrats were elected but as the only area where there was a big majority to remain in the 2016 Referendum, that would not surprise me give it was their party's clear message.
In Wales where at one time thanks in part to devolution and Welsh Language culture the Plaid Cymru ("The party of Wales") lost out to the pan British Brexit Party as did labour and the Conservatives.
It would appear the British public used the election in effect as a referendum on leaving or remaining in the European Union and voted the Brexit Party in indicating clearly when they said they wanted to leave in 2016, they meant it.
It also shows however there are a significant minority who are adamant it will not be allowed to happen.
It illustrates the need whoever becomes the next Prime Minister before any General Election happens the need to make a clear choice to leave or remain as it simply cannot be fudged and in the words of many of us in this region, darn well get on with it and be straight with people.
Another issue is because this transcends party politics, some people voted for parties that normally they would not this includes a good number of Labour people and because Alastair Campbell former Prime Minister's Tony Blair's PR person did vote for the Liberal Democrats and said before the count he was, he's been expelled from the party that people who have been Anti-Semitic have at best been merely suspended for a brief point.
For me the Labour Party's deputy leader Tom Watson got it right in saying the action was 'spiteful' and former Labour MP and speaker Betty Boothroyd said as much too.
Given this was an issue that divides the party and his reason was because he felt their policy was not clear, to me it would of been enough to had said "and don't do it again".
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