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To wonder labour supporters what you are all going to do on Friday

410 replies

thisismeusernameything · 07/06/2017 09:45

If you wake up and are still under conservative rule?

Not goady, just genuinely interested in how you intend to make life better for yourself and those around you

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DixieNormas · 07/06/2017 13:22

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Spudlet · 07/06/2017 13:22

Hold my little boy close and think really, really hard about whether trying for another, as dh and I hope to, is fair on the potential child.

Plan to expand the vegetable patch and reduce the costs of the household as much as possible.

Get serious about getting some freelance work in and studying for what I hope will be my eventual job.

5OBalesofHay · 07/06/2017 13:23

Get pissed. Same as every Friday.Smile

upperlimit · 07/06/2017 13:23

I expect the Tories to win actually so I don't think I feel any differently than I do now.

I'll continue to save all the money I can to weather the inevitable shitstorm.

MrsLupo · 07/06/2017 13:26

I'll be staying up all night Thursday to follow the results as they come in, so the first thing I'll do on Friday will be to have a bloody good breakfast and lots of coffee.

I actually think it's going to be a very close run thing, so I don't think we'll know for sure who is forming a government until about lunchtime, after some horsetrading behind closed doors.

If, as the OP assumes, the Tories get another 5 years, then for me the twin yoke of a hard Brexit and the continued implosion of the social contract will provide the final impetus to make emigration plans. I am stubborn by nature and hate to abandon ship, but the ship is sinking, and it certainly wasn't me who voted to shoot holes in it, so I won't be sticking around to reap the miserable harvest that ensues, thanks.

But I also have a bottle of Champagne in the cupboard.

Zampa · 07/06/2017 13:30

I'll continue to save all the money I can to weather the inevitable shitstorm.

This.

DD will never be able to live independently and her DLA/PIP will not support her living costs. The NHS will be decimated and we'll have to pay for private healthcare.

LooksLikeImStuckHere · 07/06/2017 13:32

Be totally unsurprised. I would like a better opposition and for her to have a smaller majority and think that's all we can hope for.

Also, I'll console myself with the thought that no government is going to come out of Brexit smelling of roses. And since they were the ones that got us into this mess, perhaps it's only fair that they take the blame. Or possibly the credit I guess; it may turn out to be the right thing to have done, despite my own personal views on it.

I will continue with my public sector job in education, in utter despair of what they are going to continue to do to children with a dreadful curriculum imposed by people who know very little about children and learning. I will feel sad that my children won't get their early years of schooling in a system that supports all and allows for creativity and freedom of expression.

I will probably look to join a party that is prepared to actively campaign for a better voting system than we have.

Badders123 · 07/06/2017 13:33

In the last month we've arranged a new fixed mortgage deal for the next 5 years and bought me a new car so it's covered for at least 3 years if anything goes wrong...
We plan to save as much as we can.
What more can we do? It's very concerning

ghostyslovesheets · 07/06/2017 13:36

Cry
Sigh
Worry about the next 5 years

Then get back to active campaigning and work with my party locally and nationally to continue to press for a fairer more compassionate country

ghostyslovesheets · 07/06/2017 13:38

Oh and yes the consolation is that the tories will now have 5 more years in which the effects of their cuts and brexit will become sadly more apparent and less defendable - then labour can pick up the pieces

CaoNiMartacus · 07/06/2017 13:46

I'll be wrapping myself in a sheet printed with Corbyn's image à la Turin Shroud, and rushing through the street screaming Marxist slogans.

ExplodedCloud · 07/06/2017 13:49

Cry.
We don't have other options.

DownstairsMixUp · 07/06/2017 13:51

I have 2 years till I qualify as a nurse and have worked as HCA for a few years before this on the NHS, I think I will need to sit and think carefully, the NHS offers a good pension for me but the pay is poor (even as a student nurse I have a lot of responsibly, despite being "supernumerary) or i could go and work private and earn more money, it's difficult, I don't want to give up working for the NHS but the stress is unbelievable. We only have two A&E's here, one 15 miles away and another one 25 miles away but are in one of the biggest NHS trusts in England, everywhere is struggling.

If my husband was happy to leave I would consider emigrating, we wil never afford a house here and are stuck in the rent trap and I can't see the future being any better for my kids under a tory government.

BadTasteFlump · 07/06/2017 13:51

Hold my little boy close and think really, really hard about whether trying for another, as dh and I hope to, is fair on the potential child

OMFG. Drama much?

Maybe if you really are such a precious flower you're right to think really hard about doing anything.

beguilingeyes · 07/06/2017 13:51

Dandandandandandandan, about on a par with calling an enormously expensive and time-wasting election when you're Prime Minister already and there's a little thing called Brexit to worry about.

BadTasteFlump · 07/06/2017 13:52

But in answer to the OP

It will be a Friday night so I will be having a few gins and a takeaway.

And everything will carry on as normal - as it always has.

20nil · 07/06/2017 13:53

I have no doubt they will win and probably quite well, so am already prepared.

Like others, I think the Tories should have to clean up the Brexit mess that they created so a Tory win has a bright side for me. I also think that the tipping point hasn't come for most people yet. When the school budgets fall and they find their teachers gone, when the NHS fails to function for enough people that it can no longer be ignored or covered up, when the number of people sleeping rough makes even the most diehard Tories look up and wonder WTF is going on and when the state of our roads, parks and environment can no longer be ignored, people might be ready to vote against the Tories. Add Brexit to the mix and the Tories will be toast. But will Labour be ready?

For anti-Corbyn Labour members like me, we'll no doubt be thinking about learning lessons, putting together a good shadow front bench and how to keep on keeping on without the Party breaking up or going through the hell it's been through since 2015. It's not good for us and it's not good for the country.

As tonydanza said, there will be no winners in this. Tough times ahead and I worry about us all, but especially for the poorest and most vulnerable.

Dandandandandandandan · 07/06/2017 13:54

I think that depends flump. If the first child has additional needs and she is worrying about cuts, prob a fair comment. If not, I agree with you!

Sallystyle · 07/06/2017 13:58

I will wake up with a heavy heart. Well I won't wake up, I'm on the night shift so I will go to bed with a heavy heart and carry on. Like I did last time.

I know labour won't win and I've prepared myself for it. I will be upset but life goes on and while I am one of the people who will be affected by any cuts I just hope it won't be as bad as I think.

Basecamp21 · 07/06/2017 14:02

I fully expect the conservatives to win but the surge of support for Corbyn's agenda has made me feel less ashamed of Britain and less disgusted with the British people than I have been over the last few years.

I feel far more hopeful for the future of my Grandchildren as I hated the fact they have to live in a country dominated by the type of people who vote Ukip or Conservative. I was in utter despair at having to live in Britain and watch what was happening to the people I care about. I have not voted for decades as I refuse to dishonour the people who died to give me my vote by using that vote for something I fundamentally disagree with. I am voting this time and so is every other person I know who never votes - Corbyn is not a saint and I do not agree with everything he says or stand for but he is the first politician in a generation that has given me some hope for our future,

Now I know there are far more decent people in the country than I thought - even if they are still in the minority. He has bought so many of us out of hiding in our pits of despair.

I do not actually care if he wins this time or not - i think it may be better in the long term if the tories have to deal with the Brexit fall out - they deserve a pile of shit so they can have that one. Hopefully the support for Corbyn means more decent politicians will emerge who can pick up the pieces and in twenty year time we may have a decent society

But either way just watching the groundswell of support for a politician who advocates a fairer society has warmed my heart and made me feel that even if a country falls into the dystopian nightmare most of the population are voting for there will be enough decent people left to light a few candles of hope.

MamaHanji · 07/06/2017 14:05

Get fucked off at all the selfish Tory fucks and Theresa cunting May is a twat of a woman who isn't fit to to organise a fucking bbq let alone run a country.

The rich will carry on shitting on the poor and the tories will carry on with their blind, classist bullshit and destroy this country.

And a personal 'fuck you' to anyone I know that voted Tory.

DownstairsMixUp · 07/06/2017 14:05

I also expect to comfort some patients next week, lots of them have already suffered under the cuts and are terrified of the prospect of another 5 years under the tories, I suppose that keeps me going sometimes, I can't do much but comfort them but I suppose it is something.

YouWhatMate · 07/06/2017 14:08

Book a long weekend in Barbados to celebrate not getting taxed another few hundred thousand on my business earnings. Thanks, voters of England!

mythbustinggov · 07/06/2017 14:10

I expect to be looking on at the attempts to form a minority government play out, it will be interesting.

However, whatever happens I will continue to support the schools I currently do (three as a Governor and another 3 as an NLG mentoring establishments in trouble) to help them provide outstanding education on dwindling budgets (not as dwindling if Labour get in) - as a volunteer.

If the current lot maintain a majority I will make sure I donate to the food bank every time I shop and look more closely at the options of moving to Scotland.

20nil · 07/06/2017 14:10

Don't hold back mama Smile