Collapse of the left, and centre

The Labour Party, long in denial about how unpopular Corbyn is, learned last night the truth.

Labour was hammered.

Hammered in its heartlands, losing 18 norther English seats that had been Labour since the last war.

Of course, labour would need to have skin as thick as Johnson's to ignore this, and yet it seems Labour will look elsewhere to blame, anywhere but "dear leader".

Corbyn will not stand at another election, but it seems that he wants to oversee the next leader so his job, whatever that is, doesn't go unfinished.

Johnson, may and Cameron might have been the Conservatives who triggered the referendum, sent the A50 letter and will take the UK out of the EU next month, but make no mistake, it was facilitated by Corbyn and Labour.

There will be enough blame for everyone to get some, and they will cop a large amount, for not challenging the lies, disinformation, Brexit itself and demonisation of immigrants.

Labour are more unelectable now than there were in 2015, and it seems is unwilling to learn from what it has done.

Scotland also was a Labour heartland, but lost that in 2015, and now has just the one MP. The one who Unite Union tried to get deselected. Yes, that's how out of touch Labour and the union barons are. Don't get me wrong, I love unions, my Dad was a union man and I have been in unions when I can, but this is abject failure.

The LibDems had a slight increase in vote share, but then there were failures. Leader Jon Swinson became a victim of the SNP sweep across Scotland, and now the LibDems will have to find a new leader. Again. And a reason for existing.

In NI, for the first time there is a majority of MPs supporting Irish unification. How this is going to play out, is unclear, but things will not be the same there.

Both NI and Scotland now have a clear mandate for leaving the UK Union, certainly the SNP has, if election vote share are madates, then her party's sweep if put in Westminister sized Parliaments would have seen them win 578 seats. The Scottish Conservatives fought the election, again, on an anti-IndyRef 2 platform, but still lost seats.

Brexit will see England and Wales probably leave the EU, but Scotland and NI could leave the UK Union and either stay or rejoin the EU. For Scotland it seems inevitable.

I will write later on what it means now for the country, and none of it is good. Spoiler alert.