Ne'er get thee stitched til Booris be ditched: UK General Election 2019

On a nearly full train and mood is diabolical. Some people crying. Where are all these shithead Tories?

I thought it was a given that Tories don’t take the train

Like they literally have a tube line to themselves

Feeling weirdly sanguine about things, 2016 really fucked me. But legit if anyone wants to talk just @ me.

i don't post itt but I am feeling so lost and down rn

People must really hate Corbyn.

For all my vocal misgivings, I can't imagine preferring the other bozos even for a fucking second (Sturgeon notwithstanding).

I guess we'll be closing this thread in the morning.

I'm just angry with this stupid fucking country and the stupid fucking bigoted moronic arseholes who live in it.

mcdonnell's right, brexit has broken uk politics

what i worry about now, apart from 5-10 more years of tory rule, shattered councils, etc, is that all the hard work to get labour in shape as a force to fight for working people will now be trashed by plp vultures

Is it a sign of mental illness that I'm still feeling delusional hope?

love to all of you and i'm just broken

xp. they'll never get a melt elected as leader, tracer

People must really hate Corbyn.

For all my vocal misgivings, I can't imagine preferring the other bozos even for a fucking second (Sturgeon notwithstanding).

Not a melt but bye bye the Left.

I guess just lying to everyone is a winning strategy though so that's great

weird that I drove myself into a panic with the brexit vote and even the us midterms but I seem to be remarkably calm about this one, though it's much much worse. I am glad i bought the ingredients for many martinis though

i honestly think i feel worse than i ever have about an election result. obviously not as devastated as some of you who actually have to live in britain. should've taken tomorrow off because i want to get fucking tore right into some beers when i finish work in a couple hours

Not a melt but bye bye the Left.

think it just hasn't sunk in for me yet

but fuck this country

weird that I drove myself into a panic with the brexit vote and even the us midterms but I seem to be remarkably calm about this one, though it's much much worse. I am glad i bought the ingredients for many martinis though

yeah it's great to have it confirmed to the Tories that lying is for winners and there are no consequences for anything, that will really build us a pleasant future

(oh I'm still not in bed)

marr had a spin on this majority that i hadn't thought about - it will allow for a 'softer' brexit than a narrow one would have. I'm clutching at straws aren't i.

They’ve not been galvanised enough by the last decade.

xp if May had had this majority it might have. don't see Boris going down that route after all this but hey ho, give me some of those straws anyway

I imagine this is the path to a Singapore-style "democracy" where there is one massively dominant party and nobody else can get a foothold because it controls the media completely, and leaving is the only sane choice

Love and solidarity to all itt

I don't understand why the pound is surging in response.

because bankers are tory cunts

But hasn't a no-deal Brexit just become likelier? Bah, this stuff is gibberish to me.

why the fuck did I not put some money on this

xp No, a Johnson deal goes through the commons easily.

what is wrong with you people

good q

I imagine this is the path to a Singapore-style "democracy" where there is one massively dominant party and nobody else can get a foothold because it controls the media completely, and leaving is the only sane choice

felt this strongly after the last Australian election

if - at this moment in history with so much at stake - people will still cheerfully vote for the shits, with masks off and cards on the table - then what hope for anything different ever again?

i know it sounds defeatist but it was a pretty visceral feeling

Visiting Americans aren't allowed to ask that question, treesh.

jesus fuck the darkness of this country, the small-minded misery.

I'm in a fairly safe Tory seat but still had friends not sure which way to vote today. (ie green/ld/lab)

marr had a spin on this majority that i hadn't thought about - it will allow for a 'softer' brexit than a narrow one would have. I'm clutching at straws aren't i.

/I imagine this is the path to a Singapore-style "democracy" where there is one massively dominant party and nobody else can get a foothold because it controls the media completely, and leaving is the only sane choice/

felt this strongly after the last Australian election

if - at this moment in history with so much at stake - people will still cheerfully vote for the shits, with masks off and cards on the table - then what hope for anything different ever again?

i know it sounds defeatist but it was a pretty visceral feeling

yeah xp to Tracer with a big majority Boris can do whatever he wants and doesn't have to please every single grouping in his party. If he wants to be the guy that gets Brexit done and have people cheering for him he just passes the agreement he already has.

Seat by seat forecasts:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2019-50424263

marr had a spin on this majority that i hadn't thought about - it will allow for a 'softer' brexit than a narrow one would have. I'm clutching at straws aren't i.

― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 12 December 2019 22:51 (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

first message i got about result from a v political junkie type said this, but as noted its hard to say how far johnson is from the erg even if he decided to drop their firm hand from his shoulder

Pretty sure Johnson will kick the ERG into touch now.

was there much to the antisemitism charges?

captain of my local bowling team bret stephens has an article in the times today comparing corbyn's antisemitism to trump's xenophobia and misogyny.

surely that isn't a meaningful comparison

He still has a chance to go fuck it let’s have a customs union to get Brexit fully finished by the end of 2020, because the final settlement matters more than the withdrawal agreement , but I’m not sure that flies withtout free movement and I’m pretty sure that’s not on the table.

It’s caymans on Thames and fuck the rest.

(xxp) He's still surrounded by Raab, Patel, Kwarteng etc though.

I’ve turned over to the BBC Scotland: it’s a bit cheerier.

heartbroken

I'm so angry I was loudly calling all conservative voters cunts on a train through Kent to the consternation of my work colleague but nobody wanted to fight me. Probably just as well cos am soft as shit tbh

I hear you, Col., I hear you.

was there much to the antisemitism charges?

Hi treesh - frankly, no.