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ALL RIGHT, GUV, I PUT MY ‘ANDS UP TO IT, I WUZ WRONG…
UK General Election 2019
I was predicting a landslide Election, so I got that right. But I was thumpingly wrong as to which party would benefit from it.
I thought Corbyn might win or there might be a hung parliament. I thought the high turnout might benefit Labour. Wrong again.
So it’s a good thing I’m not a psephologist. If I was getting paid for this shit, I’d be in trouble.
The sheer size of the Tory majority (365 seats, majority of 39) is deeply depressing in one way, fascinating in another. I have to say, I believe that this has been the real Brexit election and that Boris was right to use the slogan “Get Brexit Done!”
Corbyn — who has been a Eurosceptic for decades — offered what I thought was a very reasonable way out of the Brexit mess: negotiate a halfway sane deal, then offer it to the people in a referendum with Remain as the alternative option.
It’s now clear that many of his Labour supporters thought this was shillyshallying and voted Tory instead.
NO! bellowed the great English public. GET BREXIT DONE!
Crazy
The fact that I still think this is a crazy thing to do really doesn’t matter now — actually it’s never mattered. The size of the…
