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Paul Mason reacts to news of Labour's defeat in the 2019 election

00:00 - 00:03 Paul, the exit poll is out. It shows a massive majority for the Tories.

00:04 - 00:05 The red wall has crumbled. The Nazis broke through.

00:05 - 00:07 Even Bolsover has gone blue.

00:08 - 00:12 Seats Labour has held since their creation have elected Tory MPs.

00:12 - 00:15 Our losses are twice as bad in the most working-class areas.

00:17 - 00:19 The poll must be wrong.

00:19 - 00:21 The working classes support Remain.

00:24 - 00:26 Paul...

00:27 - 00:28 Actually...

00:31 - 00:33 Actually two-thirds of the working class voted to Leave.

00:34 - 00:36 It was the most class-correlated vote in decades.

00:53 - 00:58 Everyone out except Ash Sarkar, Owen Jones and Aaron Bastani.

01:13 - 01:15 How the fuck could this happen?

01:15 - 01:17 The voters are fucking racists!

01:18 - 01:23 Selfish old bastards fucking over the young!

01:25 - 01:28 I had a perfect strategy for victory!

01:29 - 01:31 I told Labour to back Remain!

01:31 - 01:34 They should have fucking listened to me!

01:34 - 01:37 But they dithered and delayed and fucked everything up!

01:37 - 01:40 And now we lost to the LibDems!

01:40 - 01:42 But Paul, we lost to the Tories...

01:42 - 01:46 The fucking LibDems! "Bollocks to Brexit" should have been OUR slogan!

01:46 - 01:48 The LibDems only got 11 seats!

01:48 - 01:52 Yes, because the fucking voters are fucking racists!

01:53 - 01:54 Worse than Nazis!

01:56 - 01:57 Owen, you said your Guardian column

01:57 - 02:00 would convince Leave voters to support us.

02:00 - 02:03 Do none of these shits listen to Novara radio?

02:04 - 02:08 Or read my New Statesman column?

02:08 - 02:13 How can calling people fascists for three years not convince them to vote for us?

02:14 - 02:16 We needed those fascists to support us

02:17 - 02:21 to prevent a fascist takeover!

02:27 - 02:29 I guess we underestimated

02:30 - 02:34 the sheer stupidity of the masses.

02:34 - 02:36 They just don't deserve Fully Automated Luxury Communism.

02:41 - 02:42 Corbyn's fucked.

02:43 - 02:47 Now we'll have a one-party racist state where gays and Muslims are rounded up and shot

02:48 - 02:53 Katie Hopkins will be made home secretary

02:54 - 02:56 Nick Griffin the fucking foreign minister

02:56 - 02:59 and Tommy Robinson minister for equalities!

03:00 - 03:02 Why didn't they listen to me? The tribune of the northern working class?

03:04 - 03:07 Don't worry, the nurse will come to take him away soon.

03:14 - 03:16 I suppose I could write another New Statesman column.

03:19 - 03:23 Tell Labour what to do next.

03:25 - 03:26 Give them the benefit of my wisdom.

03:31 - 03:33 We can rebuild the left around me.

03:40 - 03:46 We just need to cull the North, the Midlands and Wales.

03:46 - 03:49 That way we can save them from fascism.