A mining town in the north east has returned a Tory MP.

100%.

I'll be fine, I think (or hope). I feel terrible for the people who didn't vote conservative and will suffer, but I can't wait for those who did to choke on their Brexit, and the toxic tory government that it brings. I think the next five years will be brutal.

 

That might have kept him some seats, but it would have lost him the cities. I think Labour can win back the likes of Don Valley once Brexit is off the table - abandoning Sheffield or Birmingham could let the likes of the Lib Dems in for good.

Also, I think you've got that second part the wrong way round. Leaving the EU would have been (and probably will be) an economic disaster. There's a legitimate body of marxist thought which suggests that the chaos that ensues would be a fantastic first step towards the revolution. I suspect that's what JC thinks, or once thought, fundamentally, but he obviously can't say it. An alternate history in which Corbyn vocally backs Leave as the means to bring about a socialist revolution is one I'd love to read though.