I feel sick and truly apprehensive about the future

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Anyone else devastated by the election result? Please can someone tell me it'll be ok?

And please no Tory gloating, I've seen enough of that on FB.

@WorldsOnFire very well said.

Best strategy do small things to protect the most vulnerable people - those dependent on medical supplies, making sure prices of essentials do not rise and making sure peace is maintained in NI. It’s going to be necessary to work with the Tories on this, but hopefully people can see this is a sensible thing and not engage in mud-slinging. You just have to do the best with what you’ve got - do the next right thing.

@expo So you would happily call me a tank-topped bum boy who shags dogs? You would happily call a black person a piccaninnines with a watermelon smile? You would call an asian woman a letter box? You would slap the arses of female employees when they walked past you?

The leader of the conservatives has done all of the above and has publicly stated that he still supports the above. If you do not think they are acceptable then you would believe that the conservatives are sexist, racist and homophobic. If you do support the above then you yourself are sexist, racist and homophobic.

I posted this before..."I can understand people thinking differently and voting differently to me without attributing hateful motivations etc. (Although fuck me it's difficult to understand voting for Boris). But it is more difficult to understand the lack of compassion for why people might feel anxious"

But I think maybe OP's "special kind of cunt" fits.

Relieved with result. It was the lesser evil that won. Easy to point finger at either parties you did this you did that blah blah blah. What I am grateful for though is our democracy. So many countries have rigged elections and far poorer choices than ours. We had a vote. We voted. About time we accepted that and got behind them. WE are the cause of the NHS failing, we fail to look after ourselves and expect it to pick up the pieces, WE cheat the benefits system so there isn't enough to go round. Bankers and barmaids all avoid tax where they can (cash in hand etc..) I'm bored of living in such a blame culture. It's about time we took some responsibility.

I'm over the moon and delighted with the result .

For the record, I am not not racist, sexist or homophobic. Please stop believing the tripe and hype perpetuated to arouse and fear, hatred and division.

@SimonJT and this is exactly why this morning people are happy. All I said was that people in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones. And you twist it round again.

How is it my fault I am asthmatic?

And sorry if I want a society that cares for each other in hard times rather than just telling them it's their own fault

Sorely tempted to cancel all charity donations now though, feel like people are happy to keep everything for themselves in good times and rely on mugs like me in bad times

My constituency was one of the 2 Labour gains. I’m fucking traumatised by this result. I know no one who voted Conservative

A Tory majority and a resurgence of the SNP in Scotland. My worst nightmare. That twat as our PM will bring about the break up of the UK. That's what frightens me most.

Just back from school and have seen the bags and bags of food bank donations for struggling families.

Hip hop fucking hooray for today’s election result.

@Iggly they don't give a shit. I used to volunteer outside a supermarket asking for food donations for a food bank. Most people thought that they should learn to cook and stop spending their money on flat screen TVs.
You cannot donate to food banks and vote for a government which has forced people to need to use them to survive!

I am very concerned about the damage further austerity measures will do to the vulnerable and disabled. I guess we don't matter to society as a whole.

The Tories don't give a shit about the lower classes.

I suspect I'll be better off under another Conservative government but I am gutted.

I don't want to live in a country that is so unequal that some people can't afford food, where child poverty is rising and where the people running the country have their heads in the sand about the environmental crisis we're running into.

I voted Labour, not for Jeremy Corbyn (while less morally reprehensible than BoJo, would not make a good PM) but for their policies to try and make this a fairer country.

I don't think the Tory voters are or should be gloating, lots of people were very reluctant Tory voters especially those I imagine in longstanding labour strongholds and ex-mining communities. We now have a Scotland that, politically speaking, could not be further away from England, the Northern Irish will likely join in their thinking, the UK could not be more polarised right now. The labour government has done nothing to help itself, I voted for them but was I 100% behind them? Absolutely not. I feel a lot of northern traditional labour supporters feel unspoken for, they remember the Thatcher years but the new labour years were no bed of roses either, they have endured decades of london-centric neo-liberal politics (blue and red) and lack of investment in the north. Will they be served well by the Tories? I highly doubt it but we're in desperate times, I don't blame the voters.

Most people thought that they should learn to cook and stop spending their money on flat screen TVs

I know I know.

And the people most likely to have that attitude are those who’ve claimed to work hard but forget that they’ve had a good dose of luck or financial help as a step up.

Well lets see if it is "oven ready" by 31st January .

I’m absolutely gutted! No words, I don’t understand what’s happened, school Mums on benefits living in poor rented accommodation using food banks and boasting about voting Conservative. It’s a mad situation.

And the people most likely to have that attitude are those who’ve claimed to work hard but forget that they’ve had a good dose of luck or financial help as a step up.

But let's conveniently ignore those people that genuinely do work hard and have had no help whatsoever yet have still been successful and make a huge financial contribution to society. That doesn't fit with your narrative does it.

@darkriver19886 I am as well, I’m an immigrant, I’m a single parent, I have two life long medical conditions, one is not treated by the NHS. My son has two life long disabilities.

But it isn’t just about us, as a society we have thousands of very very vulnerable people who are having vital services cut year after year. The number of homeless children keeps increasing. Women are plunged further into poverty due to UC.

It was a Brexit vote rather than an anti Labour policies vote.
I am scared though. I can no longer work and live on disability benefits. I struggle as it is. I have to through the demeaning process every so often of proving that a disability I was born with will not improve and in fact will only worsen, every so often. I have had benefits removed seemingly on a whim. I already try to minimise my use of heating. This will only get worse.

I grew up with Thatcher supporting parents. It’s funny how quickly they swivelled their political ideology once I had a severely autistic daughter. My mum has been stressing endlessly about the possibility of a Tory government for another 5 years. She also admits that she used to vote selfishly.

The overriding message is that people seem to be generally so self centred that they have to experience difficulties in life first hand before they will accept that they CAN and DO happen to anyone.

It won't be OK. Unless you have money behind you.

It was a Brexit vote rather than an anti Labour policies vote.

I think you are right. Boris knows he isn't a good orator. He avoided talking much, except for the sound bite 'Get Brexit done'. And it worked 🤷🏻‍♀️