I reckon, genuinely, being a North easterner and voting Tory because of brexit is an act of pure ridiculous folly. You do realise that brexit will be completed THIS Year and then you have four more years of a government that has always shown scant regard to the region. I guess, like brexit itself, there's a depressing short term and lack of in depth thinking in such a decision.
I know it used to be that we should never talk about politics. It's beginning to seem to me that view is dangerous. People need to learn more about politics and how it works and we would be spared knee jerk, ultimately damaging reactions such as working class northerners voting Tory due to a single issue. I guess you get the government you deserve.