Juddian:
Those traditional Labour strongholds would still be Labour seats if the party hadn’t deserted the working class.
Instead it became an institution centred around Islington and the metropolitan luvvie class of champagne socialists, people well represented on the front opposition benches who can’t abide the genuine working class of the country, and can’t replace them quickly enough with another class of people whom they can patronise by giving them someone else’s money.
What socialists always get wrong is the working class, the working class arn’t as thick as the Labour party imagine and generally they arn’t socialist at all, they are small c conservatives, who want proper jobs and to be able to provide for their families, they want decent places to live where they can raise those families in safety without having gangs of thugs turning once decent neighbourhoods into no go zones for normal people.
The working class don’t want freebies, they’ve learned the hard way through years and generations of hard work in their families that nothing comes for free, and that socialists always have their hands in your wallet to pay for all the free stuff they offer to bribe minority groups for votes, the small and diminishing number of fools who believe the crap they talk.
Throughout history socialists have disarmed people and then gone about slaughtering them by the million, socialists can’t be trusted, they wax lyrical about equality and freedom whilst making sure they are the ones more equal and taking away freedoms from everyone else as fast as they can manage it.
Brexit killed the Labour party, the writing was on the wall after May’s election debacle, had the labour party become the champions of clean break Brexit and moderated their rhetoric, they could have reversed what has happened this time, but oh no, just like thay always do they fail completely to see what is plainly in front of their faces, instead of answering the understandable national mood, they condemned everyone who dared not agree with them calling them everything you could think of.
Well the last 3.5 years proved beyond all doubt to anyone listening exactly what the political class thought of them, the working class were despised and insulted, the message went home alright.
This election was the 2nd Referendum, Labour and the Libs and the SNP (aided and abetted by various wet tories and a political judiciary) wished to deny the result of the democratic Referendum of 2016, and the electorate his given its response, get over it.
Just for your info, i’m no Tory, they do not speak for me and i do not trust them and i haven’t voted for one of the 2.5 parties for decades including this time, but millions of people came to the conclusion that the Tories under Johnson is their best bet to get the Brexit the country demanded 3.5 years ago, time will tell if they were right or whether the Tories revert to type and betray the country, i do not know and frankly no longer care.
I’m sorry Dennis Skinner lost his seat, i respected that man, and i’m even more sorry Caroline Flint lost hers, though arguably she is far too sensible to be in the current Labour party anyway.
Labour can use the next 5 years to grow up and become the party of the self respecting and capable of thought majority working class once more, or it can carry on doing the same as it has been and wonder why in 5 years time it loses again by an even bigger majority.
Give you a tip, the elephant in the room is mass immigration, it has changed this country into a place barely recognisable and it will never be the same again, put forward a sensible immigration policy whilst the Tories deliberately ignore the issue for fear of being labelled 'ists could be the ticket to recovering the Labour party.
Brilliant post. Agree with every word.
