If the exit polls are right, the British general election result is simply terrible. In England, Labour has lost as many as eighty seats directly to the Tories. North of the border, both have shed seats to the Scottish Nationalists, set to win almost every constituency. But it won’t be anywhere near enough to stop Boris Johnson from winning a huge mandate for his hard privatization, hard pro-landlord, hard racist agenda.

We didn’t think we’d do as badly. The exit poll released by IPSOS MORI at 10pm has the Tories with a majority of 86 — on the very worst end of all the pre-election predictions. Worse, seats held by Labour for most of the last century — often won to the party on the basis of organizing in industries that don’t exist anymore — have swung to the party of low tax and low public services.

Every indicator is that the decisive shift was over Brexit. While Boris Johnson promised, in whatever hollow fashion, to “get Brexit done,” Labour called for a second vote, moving away from its 2017 position of following through on the 2016 referendum result. Before the last general election, we angrily denied we planned to subvert the democratic decision. This time, it sounded like we admitted it.