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Well last night was interesting,   Last night Blackpool saw a swing away from the Tories of 27%.  That is so large as to be significant, this is not a protest vote this is the total repudiation of the Tories' mandate.   This is well beyond "writing on the Wall" it's the end of an era.

The one thing for which the Tories have been blamed is Brexit, not only did they lie about the impact they totally mismanaged the exit, seemingly on purpose to make the whole thing feel even worse.   Boris the delusional and Liz the idiot did not make things any better.

The real shame is that the Labour came out smelling like a rose because they were equally guilty and basically "supported" Brexit for their own reason.  However, such is political life, the body politic rightly blamed the Tories, and they deserve to be gravely punished.   I don't know if they will survive the next five or 10 years will be interesting.

Part of the issue is that there are real benefits of being outside of the EU, they are mostly intangible and will only really appear over the next decade.   Never forget that Britain has regained its autonomy away from the strong bureaucratic leaning of Europeans.   The other benefit is that the UK will not pay for the EU disintegration, it may even present the country with interesting opportunities.   finally, the UK will eventually get its act together and get a strong security and economic pact with its largest trading partner, the US.

These are real things with real consequences.   But they are hard to see right now, because the cost has not only been upfront, but the promised benefits never materialized.


Anyway, Congrats to Chris Webb, the new MP for Blackpool South

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