I really hope I'm wrong.

The UK people who voted Conservative for a hard Brexit did so thinking it'll make the country better.

Your side won and you've got what you wanted. Now we will see if the warnings from remainers and the left are project fear or whether they are true.

I've predicted a doubling down on thatcherite economics, a poorer country and trade deals which open up health and education to US companies. I don't think many of the people who voted for Johnson want these things.

Things could get fairly bad or extremely bad. I want to be wrong but I fear that I'm not.

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ChampagneAngel · 26-30, F

I don't think people voted Conservative for a 'hard' Brexit at all. (Many may have voted for any Brexit at all, yes).

They voted i) against terrible policies from Labour, and ii) against a terrible leader of Labour. They may in future elections, if Boris fulfils the promises he made this morning, vote in favour of the Conservatives. Hopefully Labour will have a non-terrible potential PM leading them.

They didn't believe Labour's scare stories ('selling the NHS' 😂), and recognised they had little basis in actual fact.

The Tories meanwhile will not assemble this remarkable coalition of voters again unless they do something to improve the lot (including in terms of public spending) of their new northern 'heartlands', and thus have a huge incentive to do just that.

The Tories won this election because Labour was useless...but they won't win another without looking after their new voters properly. So with respect, I completely disagree with you.

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MartinII · 70-79, M

@ChampagneAngel I agree with everything you say.

Northwest · M

@ChampagneAngel In his own mind, this was a Brexit vote, no matter how it ends up formnuated. I watched his victory speech (if you can call it that), and Brexit is the only thing he talked about (in addition to his Trump style, prompting the crows to yell: Brexit).

ChampagneAngel · 26-30, F

@Northwest it really wasn't actually. But I trust we can all least hope the govt to put best foot forward on this. I'm not exactly a Brexit fan but it's going to happen. The Conservatives like them or not got a majority in the election.

We can at least hope for good outcomes surely