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Ann Widdecombe lost to a gay man. Crumbs, but we'll take them.

Last night was tough to take, I'd pretty much seen the exit polls the very second I got into a pub for a solitary pint after dropping off a couple of lads who were out canvassing in NWD. I was soaked through to the skin, full of cold and fuck knows how far I'd walked and how many doors I'd knocked on. Naturally I was devastated. I'm stuck in bed ill today and we lost. FML. Gutted for Laura as she's canny as owt and was proper nice to me. I was there as I recognised it as a marginal seat and Kevan Jones north durham seat was safe as milk. I knew it would be tight but thought we'd sneak it. I had faith, Ive lost it. We spoke to a lot of people & got a lot of positive responses but it just wasn't enough, even with the help of the Brexit party taking votes off the tories. The tory vote was clearly a grey one, they'd smile and say they won't tell you who they're voting for but it's not labour and this was regardless of their wealth. We knocked on mansions, we knocked on council homes - it seemed to be the same story with these people. There was a canny few labour voting old folks too mind but our main vote was clearly <50 years, same as a lot of other places. I knocked on a lot of doors, young women with kids who looked to be in dire poverty, they weren't voting. It was good to be out with like minded folk & the ground campaign was as strong as it could be all around the country. I'm terrified of what this government will bring, I have a lot of friends from all walks of life who have suffered so much in the last nine years & they're only going to suffer more. Poor people, ill people, stupid people, gay friends, trans friends, disabled friends are all going to suffer further & that's before we get on to the forrin friends. Fake news & lies have triumphed in this election & they probably will next time around as well as the government will have no interest in stopping it. They'll suppress the voters with mandatory I.D at the polling booth, they'll change the boundaries. We're fucked basically. People are so used to austerity that the very idea of something better seems absolutely alien to them. Corbyn's gone, that doesn't bother me. My friend, a tory, calls Starmer 'Mr 3 Series', so I'd give him the leadership just for that tbh.

I just hope you weren’t the straw that broke the camel’s back

We should march on Blyth first- we need to start the war with a morale boost and the fatties and smack heads will be a walkover. After that, we’ll hold two ports, and need to head west, take Hexham and maybe have a little bit war crime against the posh cunts, then push on to the West Coast. If we surround Workington and cut off the supply of frozen chips and kebab meat, we can starve the turncoats out within days. That’ll give us a solid East to West block, ports on both sides, and numbers. Then the push South in to Racist Yorkshire…

Fuck me, here’s another one. You’d think they weren’t shit.

Shall I just delete the thread and do us all a favour?

Working from home today. I’ve shut down loads of politics talk in the office previously but can’t be arsed with it today. These are proper working class tradesmen voting Tory and being proud about it, it’s properly sent my head west.

Chat up lines include - can I introduce you to the Right Honourable Member?

It was indeed staggering. Almost as staggering as shouting 'No surrender to IRA!' at Ingurland games and being so determined to not surrender to them that they inevitably said fuck Northern Ireland when the complexities of Brexit and the good Friday agreement came up. Almost as if they didn't have a clue/give a fuck about the IRA/keeping Ulster British after all?

My workplace can be utterly shit at times but at least I have the consolation of not having any of that Christmas jumpers/secret santa/fat Sharon-Wyki-love triangle/Christmas cards shit going on. Fuck that.

What a catastrophic fuck up by the non-Tory parties. A few months ago they had the Tories right where they wanted them. Utterly paralysed and losing vote after vote in the House. History will show that was their time to get their shit together and get a second referendum. Instead they retreated back into their own camps and let their own (largely misplaced) self confidence get the best of them. Johnson was desperate to go to the electorate. The SNP began backing him because the chaos suited them in Scotland. The Lib Dems then believed their own hype and thought they could capitalise on their anti-Brexit stance. This was followed by Labour completely ignoring the polls and the fact that Corbyn had the worst favourability ratings SINCE RECORDS BEGAN and believing the messiah would provide a miracle. So once all that happened it was inevitable that the anti-Tory parties would refuse to work together. They were all too good for that. I’d be interested to see how much effect an electoral pact would have had on keeping Johnson out but the main problem was giving him the election in the first place.

We need to coordinate- A push north from Red London, combined with the sweep south from the Greggs Pasty, gravy and chips fuelled Northern Army should see us victorious in a matter of weeks. Once the Southern Nancy Army has made sure their weaponry is vegan-friendly and carbon neutral, we’ll meet you near …Edgeware? We’ll put the mushroom penis of our despised Quisling cabby on a cocktail stick outside The Tower Of Lahndan.

You should get yourself to bed. This will look marginally less dystopian after a few hour's sleep. I would just check out of all of this political nonsense for a bit. If you're in Scotland now, drive to the fucking Highlands or something. We tie ourselves up in knots over this stuff but it mostly just doesn't really matter.

I got into politics in my early 20s, more than a quarter of a century ago. First in Durham, then Tynemouth. At that stage Tynemouth had always been blue, but we turned it red, and even after last night it is still red. Proud of doing my tiny little bit, but that's it for me now, I've had enough. This was all so predictable under Corbyn. I didn't want to believe it myself, I don't think any of us did, but here we are and it's time to face reality. I feel for @Tom. Unlike the rest of us, he got off his arse and tried to change things for the better. This result is much, much worse than anything I've had to deal with. The truth is Labour need a revolution on akin to the early 90s. It's got to grab the centre ground, and it's got to get itself a moderate leader with charisma. Hand on heart I don't see it happening and I really fear for the future. My eldest will be a teenager come next election. Time flies. I just hope that by the time she can vote, there's something worth voting for. In the meantime, I know I have to deal with my feelings of hatred Johnson gives me. It's not healthy. So for me, politics is dead, there are more important things.

Fuck 'em! I've sat in work this week and listened to some one dimensional cockney cunt spout on about he'll never vote Labour cos he's worked hard all his life. And then the morbidly obese lass talking about how she's seen a homeless bloke in trainers her husband would love, so how can he really be homeless. I have to put my fucking headphones in or I'd get the sack.

getting on a bit now so have witnessed more than my fair share of tory victories. regardless, the feeling of utter empty depression and complete bewilderment that so many of my own 'class' of people can be taken in by these cunts never lessens. fucking shambles and will have no sympathy for those who are about to have their arses well and truly riven.

Full of cold off all the outdoors shite this past week, fuck lemsip. I’m on the cans tonight.

It's like being in a car crash and the first person on the scene is Harold Shipman

They’ve just won the election, man. He’s mentally spending his redundancy money already

Go To Fucking Bed.

RLB? If she gets the gig that's the party finished imo.

We need some independent ancient Greek city states type shit now. London, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle etc forming an alliance with the Scots, Irish and the Welsh who didn't turn away from their roots. (Fuck the ones that did). We can be Sparta cos we're THAT hard.

We had Christmas jumper day yesterday. Team of 20. Guess who was the one misery holding the line in his normal work gear.

or god forbid your life becomes involved with the justice system, be it as a defendant or a victim.

Genuinely though, I've spent the last 2 or 3 years following this shit daily, agonising over what impact every single decision, quote or vote might have. Getting annoyed with people saying stuff in the HoC, staring at my phone when my lass is trying to talk to me, etc. Wondering what effect everything that happened in the election campaign would have on the result. And it's all totally pointless, has zero bearing on the outcome, and is a really unhealthy and stressful way to spend your time. Fucking hoping that some arsehole in Workington will see things the same way I do ffs. So I can spend the next five years doing the same with every move the Labour Party makes, wondering whether it was right or wrong, getting annoyed about stuff, trying to project onto the electorate what they'll think about this, that or the other. Or I can just check out, do other stuff, and vote the right way when the time comes. So aye, I'll probably be watching Parliament Live on Monday.

Spot on there mind. A lass at work was off a few months with a broken ankle that needed surgery and says she's all for a US style health system, as her fella is self employed and earns a good wedge. In the US her op would have cost anywhere from $10K-20K if she didn't have good health insurance, cost fuck all on the NHS though. But they're doing OK, so you know, fuck everyone else if they can save a few quid in taxes (which they probably wont). I'm Alright Jack always wins the day

I'm angry as well as sad, but at some point you do just have to stand back and say "OK, if that's what you really want then be my guest", aye. If only I had any confidence in people being able (or willing) to draw the right conclusions from the consequences of their actions.

The London liberal elite, armed to the teeth with sharpened carrots, will join your worthy cause, comrade. Marching on bellies full of quinoa, falafel and English tapas, we will reclaim Kensington and advance into the Home Counties.

That's what makes me angry & sad. I am from a working class background and grew up on a council estate. I still have friends and family on that estate. I have grafted hard to be where I am now and had to make some sacrifices for it. But I will never be ashamed or forget where I am from. Some of my mates are on minimum wage and scrape by just to feed their kids. It's them who will suffer. My old man is registered disabled and struggles with just getting the morning paper. His neighbour is still on coal fire and doesnt have central heating. Every time I go see my old man I pop in to see him. Have a chat and a laugh and his house this time of year is freezing. I always take him a bag of stuff for him. The country is fucked, bunch of self centred cunts. Do some people vote for them shithouses because that's where they wish they were in the social ladder?

I watched that last night. The postie fuckin eviscerated the cunt who’s never done a days graft in his life Labour have lost the last four elections. 3 different leaders, all very different. I know which direction they should go in now but I doubt that they will. I think it’s 1979 all over again.

Morning all. Last night's a bit of a blur tbh. Did Labour win?

Like i said yesterday, I hope people get what they expect and I expect they'll get what they deserve.

Just because fuck-ups fucked it up once, doesn't mean it's a bad idea. If CT makes you dinner, it's not the recipe that's a bad idea, it's the fact you've asked a moron to do it.

KYP

At least Caroline Flint lost her seat. But she should’ve been kicked out the party anyway.

I no longer identify as being from Burnley so it's OK.

Be honest though Rayvin at least. There was no credible centre left party for 90% of people to vote for. And we will never know the outcome if there had been. What we do know is that the three biggest turn offs for voters to Labour were Corbyn himself, Labour's policies (seen as too extreme) and then Brexit, in that order. I maintain a centrally positioned labour party with a charismatic leader would have beaten Johnson hands down. But I can't prove it and we'll never know, so perhaps we should both five it a rest.

30 seconds into the call, did you just hear the stool topple and the rope tighten? "Dave? Are you still there? By eckers I think he's topped thaself".

Bradford was 30% Brexit Party btw. The mad racist bamps.

Ugh sorry man. Hope they're too distracted by Brexit to bother you.

The jocks won't want you. Too dour.

Mind, I was thinking one thing this result really does is highlight just how useless Theresa May was.

It’s actually good for me from a career point of view. The lass’ brother, who works at Nissan, will be attempting to troll me. I mean, ffs.

Electoral system is bullshit like - Labour got 800k more votes than 2005 - it's the spread/location/turnout that matters.

Honestly I feel a bit relieved by the fact he won a big majority. If he'd won a slim one I would have felt compelled to live out all of the votes and all of the plotting over the next few months. Now that he can do what he likes I feel like I can just completely check out from it all and just let the cunts have their way. There won't be any close votes to get fretful over. The amount of time and energy that all of us have wasted on this the past few years man. Fuck that from now on.

Of all the things I wasn't looking forward to this morning the gleeful ramblings of a smug plastic jock was quite low on the list to the point of I wasn't really expecting it. So thanks for that

I'm living in a flat at the moment, no stairs! Apologies to all concerned, I'm living my worst nightmare presently, not really dealing with it well. My immediate family will be fine. But my sister? No,, she won't be. Five more years of this will kill so many people, literally, and all hope for me personally. This is a nightmare result.