Whatever the result, it's not the end of the world. Calm heads and all that jazz. I'm very interested in politics and am braced for great disappointment, but in the grand scheme of things if you are fortunate enough to have your health and a job (and don't live near a riverbed); then the ability of a politician to ruin your life is more limited than you might fear. If you dont meet that criteria then even then it will probably take over a decade for the NHS to be fundamentally undermined and for labour rights to be shredded. It is not going to be 'end of days' on day one.
Pretty Baltic up here, which will not help the SNP or Labour (who benefit from higher turnouts and more casual voters). Think Tories will get 10+ seats up here, which alone will probably give them a UK majority. 50% of talk is bizarrely about indyref, 50% is about SNP killing children and 0% is about Brexit, its consequences and how NI is getting a superior arrangement to Scotland (if we take Boris's words about no additional bureaucracy at face value). The Brexit election where the media up here will not mention the 'B' word.
It looks like Corbyn has done it again to some extent, Labour up about 12-14 points on when the election was announced. But it will be from a lower base than last time due to the kicking his character has taken and his generally lack of modern day political savvy. It is also in large part due to the extremely ordinary Lib Dem leader Swinson, who has lost about 11 points in the same period.
Anyway, thanks for your observations in the lead up to the election, whatever your political persuasion.
