– Any prospect of Britain remaining in the EU has gone. Brexit Day is seven weeks away, and this time it’s for real.
– Boris Johnson now has free rein to recast Britain’s entire relationship with Europe as he sees fit in Phase 2 of the Brexit talks.
– Johnson will also have the power to reshape domestic policy over the coming years without restraint from his party or from parliament.
– The Conservatives are likely to rule Britain for the whole of the 2020s at least. No opposition party has ever overcome a deficit like this in a single election cycle.
– Huge question marks hang over the the future of the union, with the resurgent SNP now emboldened to demand a second independence referendum.
– The possibility of a reunited Ireland is also being openly discussed, given Johnson’s Brexit deal – which treats Northern Ireland very differently to Britain – is now certain to go through, and given Northern Ireland elected more Irish nationalists to Britain’s parliament than pro-British unionists for the first time since partition.
– Jeremy Corbyn is finished as Labour leader, and he leaves behind him a party in absolute turmoil and a state of near-civil war.
– Labour has been trounced across its old industrial heartlands, losing scores of ultra-red seats including Tony Blair’s old constituency of Sedgefield.
– The Lib Dems are also in disarray, mired on little more than a dozen seats and now seeking their fifth leader inside five years.
– The Tories however are a party reborn, having swept through the “red wall” of Labour heartlands to completely redraw the electoral map.
EDIT - These aren't my words but copied and pasted from elsewhere [Post edited 13 Dec 2019 8:44]
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