The result

Breaking news:

DUP agrees principles of "confidence and supply" deal to support Conservatives in government. No idea what that means exactly but should be on later news bulletins.

Sorry typo.Meant Caitlin Moran.

I don't read the gutter press ,well the Telegraph which I daresay some would say is.But also look through the Guardian and Independent most days to get a different viewpoint.So I can't comment on specific nasty comments made.However I did genuinely see some shockingly nasty comments on Facebook in the days preceeding the vote from young Labour supporters.Get rid of the Tory scum etc.Didn't Caitlin Moran saying anyone not voting Labour is a c..?If so,charming.Maybe not in press but plenty of bullying and nastiness out there.
I also feel profoundly sad.My beautiful,gay,hardworking teacher daughter has just told me mum voting conservative round where I live is like being gay was in the past.And in the staff room the assumption is everyone's a huge Corbyn fan.She and one other young teacher just keep their heads down and keep quiet.Mum it's just not worth the aggro of even discussing a different point of view. It's easier being gay than being a young conservative voter?How ironic.Told her to look to Ruth Davidson .

But I don't think anyone was doing anything about it till he started campaigning.

For once Jacob RM might be useful!!

that's the word Tegan I was trying to think of it!

Just pondering .....
not that I dislike Jamie, he has done a lot of good although some parents were apparently still pushing pies and chips through the school fence after his healthy meals were introduced!

60% of Tory members think May should resign. They owe no allegiance. They did not get the chance to vote for her as leader.

The government does have a whole raft of experts to call on for advice on child health and nutrition. Perhaps the days of celebrities thinking they are the sole experts who can advise governments on all kinds of issues are over. Or perhaps Jamie Oliver could approach the government experts themselves and offer his advice which will be practical rather than scientific I would think. But probably he could not make a programme from that and get more publicity from it.

That sounds good to me Jalima!Like filibustering on a grand scale...[which might actually have been the plan all along ]....

^How can we have a leadership challenge at a time when brexit negotiations are about to start?
Tegan I suppose if we did have one then another GE just to make sure they have picked the 'right' person then Brexit negotiations could be delayed for even longer. Would that mean that Juncker et al could shout 'Out of time, you're still in?' after two years of getting nowhere?

Yes, I know that sounds daft but this seems to be the silly season.

Sometimes the news is so unreal that the real Jon Snow has to draw on Game of Thrones to open the programme.

I too was referring to the wider election and to what has appeared in the press. GN is not the whole of the web or the centre of the universe.

Lies? I don't lie.

I mentioned what I have seen on Facebook. I wasn't taking notes at the time on specific quotes as I didn't foresee that I would have to justify every post, but that doesn't mean I didn't see statements with a similar tone Perhaps you were too busy campaigning to see the same things.

I think -well hope that people are turning away from such a shocking level of nastiness -it really is quite dreadful.

Perhaps I am so profoundly shocked, because I don't read such dreadful stuff and not used to it?

I didn't mean the attacks on Corbyn on here Elegran but in the wider election.

You are doing exactly what Jane did earlier. It is not the truth, IT IS AS LIE to say that anyone on here ever said that the Tories "hate the poor and want them all to die of starvation" or anything like that. As you say, should GNHQ ask for you to show them where that is you could not do so.

Why are the right on here taking to lying for heavens sake?

As for your last para,
Perhaps it will have a cathartic and educational effect. No-one can have any illusions about what Joe Public wants and doesn't want, and having "let it all out" maybe those in power can use what has been learnt to progress in a better direction than if it hadn't been called when it was. Let's hope so.

I certainly hope it has been educational but I won't hold my breath. I think what people want is complex and the Tory Party don't do complex do they, just three word clips and managed interviews. What they do need to learn is to be honest about what they are putting to the public.

I also don't believe some of those in power care about what Joe Public wants they just want power. If they can work it out they will not empathise but would be prepared to use it to their advantage. I don't think you - or many others -understand just how far to the right, and therefore what they think of those not as fortunate as they are, some of the parliamentary party actually are.

I can agree we need hope.

...the nicest non politician [who was on, I think, Question time] was the guy who created The Thick of It.

I have been meaning to mention that whitewave; there were two people from the Daily Mail on tv last night and I couldn't believe the snide, nasty comments they were making. [well, actually I could believe it, but you know what I mean].

Not sure May will be able to function without the spads.

Bloody Farage, my god can't they find anyone else

The joke is we will be lumbered with another unelected prime minister

All of 'em, dj A government has to listen to ALL their countrymen/women.

Newsnight on at the moment. The only reason the Tories are hanging on to May is because they do not know who to replace her with!

There are lots of Joe Publics and they don't all want the same.
Which Joe Public do you mean, Elegran?

For the Labour posters on here - Perhaps a little less vigorous enthusiasm campaigning for the anti-tory cause might have left things no worse than they were before the election.

That's a joke, isn't it Elegran?

Things were awful before the election.

I, for one, am rather enjoying the chaos; at the end of it we might have actually arrived at a better place than we were in before the election. We couldn't, in my opinion, be in a worse place...

I have been watching lots of talk shows over the past couple of days and absolutely one thing I have notice that when anyone from the gutter press and most particularly the Mail are asked for their opinion they are utterly fowl in the language they use. It really is quite shocking.

That is one of the many things Corbyn supporters have rejected.