So. It seems that the conservatives are likely to win this election. I didn’t expect the left to be hugely ahead or anything, I expected a fairly close election. I really didn’t expect what currently looks like the conservatives looking so strong (at 61 seats left to go). It’s an astonishingly depressing start to a day.
The upshot of which is that unless you’re rich, white, healthy and male you’re fucked in this country.
The irony is this is actually pretty good for me, because short term it’s likely the Conservatives will prop up the housing market, and we want to sell and leave. They’ll continue to destroy the NHS – they’re planning to cut more nurses – which will mean I can mostly continue to get work as an agency worker. Tax wise, it’s unlikely to make a huge difference.
But Gods, it’s depressing. I’d hoped something that the UK could reverse the hideousness and stop it’s vile slide into becoming something unrecognisable from what I grew up with. Apparently not yet.
