Thread by @GappyTales

My take on the election result, for what it's worth, has taken up until now to formulate.

1. Because I am so so devastated by the result.

2. Because I had to go to the council for an interview about my housing benefit.

This is because I am an actual poor. A single parent on

a low, self employed income. This means I get some help towards my rent. But this comes with incessant reviews and demands to see bank statements going back months and constant mistakes made so the benefit gets stopped, which then stops all the other benefits, and means I am

without income. Which is so deeply stressful I am on edge whenever the postman puts anything through the bloody letter box.

So you can imagine I was so desperate - like many others - for a government that would implement decent socialist values and improve the lives of women

like me who are struggling.

I am terrified by this result and what it might mean for me personally. But I don't think I can bear the complete lack of humility and self reflection in response to this resounding defeat.

"It was the media!" "It was Brexit!" "It was a centrist

conspiracy!" Stop. Please everyone, just stop. The Tories were an open goal. Boris was hiding in a fridge only this week. And we still lost. We have to take a really honest, unvarnished look at ourselves.

Screaming that everyone who didn't vote for Corbyn actively wants people

to freeze to death on the streets doesn't help and isn't true. I know plenty of perfectly decent, principled, and yes, left wing people who just could not bring themselves to vote for him. They had their reasons.

I'm a life long socialist and I voted Labour. But I never believed

Corbyn to be a good leader and I cannot bear the thuggish machismo surrounding Momentum and the self righteous, blinkered, totally misplaced belief that the likes of Owen Jones, Ash Sarkar et al seem to have in their own moral superiority. It alienates people. It really does.

And now we have five more years of food banks and misery and god knows what. We need to own this defeat and take some responsibility. Not everything is always everybody elses fault.

Which brings me to the third reason I didn't want to tweet about the election:

3. Because

today I hate everybody. I hate the toxicity of certain elements of the left, who cannot countenance anyone with a different opinion and alienate anyone with even a slightly different perspective with shouts of centrist dad and gammon. We needed the centre left on board.

And at

the same time I hate everybody who couldn't hold their nose and just vote Labour anyway (even though I accept you had your reasons and you were entitled to those.) People are suffering so much.

I hate all the people who are being relentlessly positive and are talking about

silver linings (there isn't one - just shut up.)

And I hate all the "bohemian hobbyists" as @J_Bloodworth called them, who will be ok whatever. Owen Jones will be a rich man Brexit or not Brexit; Tories or no Tories.

For some of us this is real life.

The end.

@J_Bloodworth I know this thread is garbled. But I'm just so upset. Every response to this defeat is making me angry. Even this.

I MEAN FUCK OFF BILLY UNLESS YOU'RE GOING TO PAY MY RENT.