Thread by @theousherwood

So this thread includes two callers to @mrjamesob this morning.

Both Labour voters until yesterday. Both point to the scale of what Boris Johnson did yesterday.

And both indicate the problem the Tories could face in 2024 if they do not deliver for those voters.

1/.

@mrjamesob First-up Scott, a Jaguar LandRover worker, from Birmingham.

"Jeremy Corbyn just doesn't represent me, mate. It's the IRA connection for me. A lot of people missed this but no-one represented us for the justice for the 21, the people who died at the hands of the IRA."

@mrjamesob Scott: "No-one has ever given us any justice and then I have to look at pictures of (Corbyn) where he is there...

"He didn't sit with my moral compass to let him represent me. There's an awful lot of people in Birmingham who think the same way. It's massive in Birmingham."

3/.

@mrjamesob "Everybody is Labour but it was five-to-one Conservative. We're all gutted, no-one wanted to do it.

"We don't want Boris. We'd no choice. You want me to vote Farage. I'm not going to vote for that bigot. We were stuck in a pickle.

"That exit poll last broke my heart."

4/.

@mrjamesob "The Tories don't bring anything to me but we had no choice," Scott concludes.

@mrjamesob And then we've Andy from Sedgefield. It swung to the Tories for the first time since 1931.

He and his family voted Tory instead of Labour for the first time.

"It's like having to put your dog down when it's poorly. It's the right thing to do but it's so terrible."

@mrjamesob Andy: "My grandfather would be turning in his grave."

@mrjamesob: "What would you say to him?"

Andy: "I would just ask him to look at Jeremy Corbyn and make his own mind up."

@mrjamesob Andy: "(Jeremy Corbyn) never spoke to me once. The slogan - 'for the many and not the few' - is the most ironic thing probably in political history. But he spoke to nobody.

"He only spoke to the few. Families like mine, in areas like mine, he sold us down the river. For what?"

@mrjamesob Andy: "(Corbyn) is deaf, dumb and blind.

"I couldn't vote for Corbyn who would have led us to thinks I could never agree with."

@mrjamesob And this is the kicker for Boris Johnson from Andy.

"I have loaned him my vote. If he doesn't stick up for my vote then he won't get it again. I want to see Brexit get done.

"I'm still shaking at the fact I voted for Boris yesterday. It depends what he does."

And ends....