Tremors

[davidgillon]

I thought I was handling the election result, I'm used to being represented by Tories here in Kent. But then I found out that Bishop Auckland, my home town, which has been Labour since forever, went Tory, and that shook me. And then I found out that Blyth Valley, my parent's home town, that's even more Labour than Bishop, where my great uncle Tol was the Labour mayor, and where I spent every weekend until my teens, went Tory, and that, I have no words.

That isn't the sound of 'the red wall falling', it's generations of miners, including my grandfathers, spinning in their graves.