Obviously things didn't go the way the Tories, the pundits, and the news media thought they would.

At the same time, the Tories increased their percentage of the vote to it's highest level since 1983, and will remain in power. So it's debatable to say that the Tories are The Big Losers.

Labour failed to win the election, but at the same time they had their best showing in 16 years, and their biggest gains on record. So it's hard to say that Labour are The Big Losers.

So who did lose big?

There is a long list of Big Losers.

UKIP



Whatever Nuttall says, Ukip is finished.

Their electoral collapse was predicted in the polls, after the EU referendum result last year saw their reason for existence obliterated. But this was confirmed in real votes cast on Thursday: just two years after winning the support of a record 3.8 million in the 2015 election, they secured just 593,000 votes this time around and failed to deliver a single MP to Westminster.

In seat after seat, the purple in the TV election graphics sank below zero, a fitting tribute to a party that went to submarine depths in its search for policies of division and hate.

The Tories were the big beneficiaries of UKIP's implosion. The lion's share of those 3 million votes went to Tories, and thus kept last night from being a complete Tory debacle.



SNP



Alex Salmond and Angus Robertson were among the high-profile casualties as the SNP lost more than a third of its seats in the general election.

The party won 35 of the 59 Scottish constituencies - a fall of 21 seats from the 56 they won in 2015.

The Conservatives secured 13 seats in Scotland - the party's best performance in the country since 1983.

Labour won seven seats and the Lib Dems four. The three pro-UK parties had won just one seat each in 2015...

Deputy First Minister John Swinney admitted that the issue of a second referendum on Scottish independence had played a "significant" role in the result.

The decline of the SNP vote mostly went to Labour. However, the SNP and Labour are generally on the same side, and this split the vote in Scotland, thus allowing the Tories to slip in.



This, plus the UKIP implosion, are the two biggest factors in allowed the Tories to escape the election intact.

Rupert Murdoch



It's a bad day to be a U.K. press baron. Fleet Street's finest had lined up to endorse Theresa May ahead of an election that backfired badly for her.

Rupert Murdoch's tabloid Sun, credited for swinging elections in the past, had called on Brits to keep Jeremy Corbyn's "sinister Marxist gang" from power...

The debacle underscores how the influence of Britain's top media properties is waning. Newspaper readership has slumped over the past ten years, even if the Sun and Daily Mail still attract tens of millions of readers a month online and in print...

Voters are losing faith in established institutions: One survey published in January recorded the largest-ever drop in trust in media, government, business and non-governmental organizations. Five out of eight top U.K. papers are already seen as fairly or very right-wing, according to YouGov, which probably colors readers' views of their endorsements.

Regardless of your voting intentions, the Daily Mail and The Sun's attempt to smear Corbyn and politicise terrorism is disgusting/pathetic. pic.twitter.com/QsPaa33lho — Will Phillips (@Monkiflops) June 7, 2017

As I pointed out recently, the UK news media lined up against Corbyn and Labour. That the British public, especially the young, rejected or ignored the propaganda is not something that will simply go away after this election. The anti-establishment trend is not finished by a long shot.

Don't kid yourself: it wasn't just Murdoch.

Great thread. Here are above screen shots in one combined pic. pic.twitter.com/h61EEWbkPB — Ludwig W (@LudWitt) June 4, 2017

Blairites



The party’s surge in the polls is in no small part down to its left policies – which should mark the end of Blairist centrism for the party.

Corbyn’s leadership has made socialism a mainstream prospect again. And in this context it is, frankly, ludicrous to suggest that anyone else at the party’s helm would have fared better in this election: for who, other than the Corbyn leadership, would have put forward such a bold manifesto?

The neoliberal Blairites spent almost two years trying to undermine Corbyn, and they only managed to water-down the message that Labour was trying to send. Who knows how big of turnout Labour would have had without this infighting?

Nevertheless, the neoliberal centrists are now marginalized.