Group hug thread for those devastated by election results

[KizzyWayfarer]

Just a quiet place to sit. If you want to gloat or opinionate about Corbyn please go over to AIBU.

Also a concerned teacher.

£453 per pupil worse off in 2020 is the projection in my school. But £10m for Ofsted.

@SpiderCharlotte, your summary as to how this happened is spot on. It's soul destroying as it's not actually about the electability of the leaders or policy, it's about the state of humanity. My region remains a red wall, we've always pulled together and we always will. A city built on immigration.

Gutted here, wasn’t expecting all out win but collation.

Stopping the rolling out of UC would have been amazing for me, also free social care and the hopes to end poverty and food bank use. Even if Brexit does work and somehow Uk does economy grow, it’s not going improve the Mim wage for care workers or provide help for those who need social care, or stop poverty of UC. My life has Zero chance of being better and in all likely hood going be even worse.

Thank you much appreciated. Have been in tears all morning. We already struggle now I'm scared of what they'll do next. We could lose our home if they up the ante. If they sell the rest of the NHS I don't know what I'll do for my son. His meds would cost thousands under an American system. They won't be able to go to uni as it's out of our reaches.
I can't even get out of bed this morning I feel physically broken

Wow there’s some attention seekers out there aren’t there. Sums up the whole election really. Goady fuckers.

I'm up north and we just managed to hold on to our labour seat. Just. I think it was about 42% labour and 40% Tory. I'm so shocked at Blyth though. It has always been labour since the 50s but it's turned blue.
I've actually not gone into work today. Most of my team were talking about spoiling ballots or voting greens just so they didn't have to make a choice. This was clearly a two horse race. If you didn't vote labour you might as well have voted Tory.

How can this be our future? FFS, we have children who need to grow up here and I'm panicking that we can't afford the bloody milk subs at nursery! What chance do we have now? All I can hope is something fucking massive happens and another GE is called early. Preferably off the back of a massive Tory fuck up. And labour have a poster boy for a leader.

I'm seriously scared now. I want to cry. I just dont see how it can of been this bad. Surely that may people cant be happy we have children with no winter coats, working families at food banks.
Boris has already said he thinks people like me are beneath him.
I fear times are going to very hard.

I keep seeing on various fb groups how Tory voters are stupid. I don't think this is true. This was done willfully. Willful spite and selfishness.

I'm dreading today. I will spend all my shift questioning if the colleague or customer in front of me is prepared to die on a hill for Brexit.

I keep seeing on various fb groups how Tory voters are stupid. I don't think this is true. This was done willfully. Willful spite and selfishness.

I completely agree. Tory voters are not stupid at all, it is deliberate. The 'I'm alright Jack' mantra has been trotted out for years but it's true. My neighbour actually said 'you have to look after your own'. Not 'you have to look after your own while also caring about what happens to other people and trying to help'.

But she's ok, they're financially stable and have no interest in education now. To be honest, we're ok financially too. But it doesn't mean I would vote for a party who wants to make the rich richer and the poor poorer. I do care and I fucking hate this. So I'll keep doing what lots of us do to help out where we can and if anyone is reading this and routinely walks past the box for food for your local food bank, please just sling a couple of bits in there when you next go shopping.

The election has happened, it's done. So now is the time for those who do care, who want to help, to pick up the slack for those who don't give a shit. Sad but true.

Spiteful and easily lead I think. We haven't had a victory since the Sun turned blue.

Can't believe Laura Pidcock lost her seat

As Thatcher said : 'there is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look after themselves first. It is our duty to look after ourselves and then, also, to look after our neighbours.'

It seems that psyche has not left the English and Welsh. Or many of them at least.

My constituency was one of the 2 Labour gains. I guess as someone said up thread it is an educated and middle class area.

But our new MP must feel overwhelmed by the size of the majority and how to represent her consituenrs

Another devastated teacher here. Can't believe people voted for BJ, he's been a joke character for years and is on record saying some terrible things.

Lick our wounds, then fight back on behalf of those who can't.

A Tory on another thread just said “child poverty is good for the economy” 😢

Ignore the goady ones. There are some who take delight in others unhappiness. They aren't worth our time.

Sending love. Never been so grateful that dh has dual passports and I have a choice to leave this nation. I don't want to but I can't bear to be around this level of stupidity, selfishness and casual nastiness much longer. 💔

It's so very, very sad. The shadow chancellor said the other day that they had an emergency package prepared to immediately alleviate the destitution brought on by universal credit. It breaks my heart that people have rejected that in favour of more of the same and some.

@KitKat1985 my dad voted Conservative. Despite the fact I have chronic illnesses and my mum has early onset dementia

I volunteer for the hygiene bank, I can see me getting even busier.

@SlowAndWild

It was specified that you were not welcome on this thread. Have some respect.

As someone who is disabled, and has a disabled daughter, and a DH who is a pensioner, I am terrified. My DH thinks I'm over-reacting, 'they won't do the things you're afraid of, people would be up in arms?'
Err which people? I don't think the disabled, the sick, the poor, the homeless, the mentally-ill and children, who will be disproportionately affected carry much clout.
And other people I've met seem to fall into 3 groups,
Those who don't really seem to understand what they voted for.
Those who voted for their own self-interest and can't understand anyone else's position.
And those who voted for their own self-interest and think those at the bottom should be punished or left to rot since they aren't paying their way.

((((group hug))))
I hadn't realised how hopeful I'd felt beforehand either.