As well as feeling depressed about this shit I also spent the day sorting out my application to become French. Not like Macron is much of advance, and there’s Le Pen to fade, but no regrets. That’s if they’ll have a Brit after this ludicrous display.
I’ve got the paperwork for an Irish passport - my sister did the work last year for her son (sis and me adopted by Irish mother) - so that’s an option I’ll look at more seriously now,
It’s been that way across the world over the last several years, the only safe on a national scale left political country I can think of atm might well get invaded (Venezuela).
Prof Sir John Curtice, the psephologist who leads the team that produced the exit poll, told the BBC that the poll predicted that Blyth Valley would turn Conservative. He said:
The exit poll forecast that the Conservatives would narrowly win Blyth Valley with a 15-point drop in the Labour vote, and we had a 15-point drop in the Labour vote and the Tories narrowly won Blyth Valley.
He added that the 18-point drop for Labour in Sunderland South was “also anticipated”. He went on:
Do not be surprised, particularly when we get further south and we get to much more pro-Remain constituencies that we do not see spectacular advances by the Conservatives.
But in the north of England, in Leave areas, in working class seats, the Labour party does seem to be in serious trouble
Tonight is not a complete disaster: I done gone learned a new word!