to have shed a tear at this exit poll?

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I feel utterly in despair. How can people not care about the NHS, the planet, the homeless.... etc etc etc...

Ummm read my comment properly. Too many people because we are an ageing population. Never mentioned immigrants.

What a cunty end to a troubled year, and Brexit shit to come in the new decade.

I feel sick to my stomach.

It might be your lack critical thinking if you still try and play it in a black and white situation.,

You can shed a tear, but maybe some self reflection is needed instead or pretending everyone else is wrong.

It's hard to adjust to the realisation that your out of touch, your 'second degree' has shown how out of touch you really are, step outside your echo chamber and stop reading the red tops

We could argue all night about how bad the tories are.

The truth of the matter is that Labour are not good enough to sway even the most hesitant of Conservative voters.

4 day working week. Renationalised railways, utilities, internet. The rich are evil.

Anyone who just read the headlines would think they were fucking communists.

The ONLY people to blame for this are those at the top of the Labour party. Their only policies that made any sense were stolen from the SNP. If they'd just copied it word for word sans independence they might have had a chance.

Blyth Valley going blue?

Jesus, Corbyn. The writing was on the wall and you refused to read it.

No. Yanbu.

I’ve had a cry too. I feel sick

I think this is the labour line, we lost because if brexit, but in reality it was Corbyn, McDonnell, momentum, the hard left socialist

This. I voted Labour today because I don't trust BJ as far as I can spit and I believe the Tories should be punished. Also because Labour did say they would have a second referendum on any withdrawal agreement .

But I wasn't enthusiastic about Labour because of the leadership. It really is a crying shame that there wasn't an opposition that more people felt they could get behind. An opportunity lost. If only there was different leadership we might have been looking at a different result tonight

I’m so sorry OP. A truly sad day

I genuinely cannot fathom how BJ is a better choice than Jezza, or anyone for that matter. I'm not a fan of Jeremy at all, but if I had to vote for the better of two evils, surely JC should win hands down.

Not really. It was like being asked to choose between cholera and plague.

FFS I this is awful. I grew up in the NE in a neighbouring constituency to Blyth Valley and it is one of the last places I ever imagined to become Tory especially with someone like Johnson as leader....

This is so so sad. The Tories pumped a lot of money into their lies and disinformation. They ran targeted ads and broke laws.

The impact of this on the most vulnerable in society is immediate. And terrifying.

For those doing ok, thinking they've kept the Tories in to get Brexit done (it's just beginning) and to protect a society and economy that's working for them. It won't forever. You'll lose your job or get a disease that needs a lot of costly intervention etc

And as a country, we're fucked, we've given them too much power. They need watching like hawks.

Tory voters might feel smug now, and justify it to themselves through Labour's mistakes (which were real) but this attempt at self preservation is doomed. Unless you love chlorinated chicken and the US using your health data to choose what drug prices to raise.

Blyth Valley, a Labour heartland since the seat was created in 1950, having only ever been held by Labour and Independent Labour candidates in that time, has been taken by the Conservatives in the first shock of the night:

Something seriously wrong with Labour!

Clue;

JC..

I feel sick to my stomach, I'm a disabled single parent of a disabled child who is on benefits. This result will mean that anyone like me will be stuffed for the next 5 years at least.

I’m sobbing on your shoulder Toastlover. 😢

I wonder how it would have panned out with Tom Watson as Leader with a remain mandate? At least then I could accept it was a second referendum result as opposed to a red peril propaganda/anti antisemitic/far left issue. I voted Labour in what is usually a Labour stronghold because the lib dems and green are less than a 1000 and the labour mp is actually a decent bloke I wanted to have represent me - in the past I have voted both green and libdem but this time around I thought it would be dangerous given the Brexit Party and Tory get brexit done paid ads I kept seeing everywhere in a constituency that was 58% brexity. It will be interesting how the vote has gone where I am.
Having been on here I do wonder if I am protected in a left wing remain bubble, am not sure anyone in the real world is remain. I chatted with a Brexiteer today who was still telling me it was because of the NHS. I could cry OP yes.

I cried when the exit poll came in, whilst on a serious work dinner out.

My eldest child is disabled and we've seen SEND council services decline as funding is cut. I'm so worried about her future.

FFS I this is awful. I grew up in the NE in a neighbouring constituency to Blyth Valley and it is one of the last places I ever imagined to become Tory especially with someone like Johnson as leader....

Did Blyth vote to leave I wonder?
If so, have they simply voted for Brexit without thinking of the wider implications of a GE.

I was devastated for my local nhs when our labour member won because fucking murdering cunt tony bliar said we would keep our a&e. We duly voted Peter Mandelson in and subsequently labour closed our hospital. I'm now seeing younger family members sharing shit about tories when it was fuck all to do with them. They're all as bad as each other (except Hartlepool and national labour are a pack of blatant lying bastards.

Glad Tory voters can afford to use and rebuy their Christmas champagne, when there are children who can't afford to eat! Tory mentality to a tee...

The result in Blyth Valley alone has shown that it is about Brexit though. 3,394 people voted for the Brexit party and split the vote. The Tory majority was under 800.

@ginginchinchin wow

I too am relieved, the NHS will be fine, the country won't be in deep and bottomless debt, I would have voted for Labour under almost any other leader but not that vile delusional commie nutcase.