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.

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[cloudsinvenice]

I'm so sorry. I expected it to be a struggle but I did not expect it to be a rout.

My constituency came painfully close to ousting a dreadful right winger who barely seems aware he's anyone's MP. God knows why anyone would want five more years of him, but apparently that's what we get.

[davidgillon]

I'd thought we might pull off a hung parliament, but not this.

On the schadenfreude side of the equation, I'm imagining the next five years for Tory MPs in places like Bishop and Blyth who now have to convince their electorate that they, and the government, really do care about places that have been starved of investment by every Tory government over the last century.