I live in Wales and thought that Drakeford would follow everything Boris did like a sheep
better than BJ
Didn't he live in his garden shed?
I was told that by a friend in Wales. I think he was protecting his family - maybe he had Covid at some point.
That still doesn't explain why Labour in England and Scotland are so tit though
There was a documentary about him on S4c and during lockdown he moved to live in a shed on his allotment so not to put vulnerable members of his family at risk because he still had to mix with people
In desperation looking for a party that I could actually vote for, I came across the SDP. I really like their policies and they seem centre left like me and have policies on womens rights I approve of ( which no party on the Left do). But because they dont stand in my constituency I cant vote for them. And FPTP means they have no chance. I wonder if all the parties on the Left joined together ( even though most of them hate each other) and managed to hold it together long enough to win an election and reform the voting system we would have PR and allow a decent opposition to form.
I think they just aren't turning up to vote. In Harlepool, the Brexit party and the Tories split the vote last time and let Labour in. This time there was no Brexit Party so they all voted Tory. The people who couldn't vote Tory stayed at home I think rather than vote for them.I'm actually lost with where to place my future votes. As it stands right now anyway obviously i know a lot can change in a short space of time (thanks covid)
I'm moving to Scotland i think
But just to add to my earlier comments....Sir Keir Starmer will NEVER get the working class votes imo
However i do think England is missing that really strong party to contest the main ones.
Where are the old red votes going?
I can't get on board with the idea that they have ALL turned blue
Result not known till tormmow but Sadiq will be ahead after the first prefrences but not by much. However second preferences Will see probably him extend the gapl
Completely agree with you. 50% of people don't have a university degree. Who do they think the Working Class are? Labour need to ditch pretending they are the party of the downtrodden and working class if they are spending their time sneering at the working class for being too stupid to do as they are told. They need to be a middle class party along the lines of the Lib Dems. But to do that they will have to ditch union support, which they cant afford to do. The two factions of the party are too different and they hate each other more than they hate the Tories.
The problem is a lot of them did lose their jobs to EU immigrants, because they were cheaper and yes, in a lot of cases better workers. British employers have always been averse to training their own workforce, preferring to bring in people from overseas that someone else has already trained. That is not the fault of immigrants, but of successive governments. But the fact is that people who did not have a decent education were being undercut in low skilled jobs and all they saw from Labour were them pandering to the middle class metropolitan elite and talking about university tuition fees, paid for partly through the taxes of the 50% of the population who didn't go to university. The non university educated in Hartlepool didn't not vote for Labour because they were 'thick' but because Labour didn't offer them anything at all.
Exactly. Labour have always been a left wing party. At its heart, it doesn’t know how to be anything else. The last twenty years of the media and establishment, including Labour themselves, vilifying the EU and immigrants as a way of deflecting from their own failings and greed has culminated in the vast majority of the working class misplacing their grievances onto the EU and immigrants instead of those in power that have caused them the vast majority of their problems.