Very much the 1980's all over again. Wrong leader and wrong direction, unfortunately. But hey, the see saw of power always rebalances itself.
Absolutely. And I'm no political guru but I could have predicted that months ago.
In my job, construction, I meet so many what you would consider working class people and to a man and woman the vast majority dislike Corbyn, but ESPECIALLY the nasty nature of the hard left in the party and that manifesto. Shock news; working people are decent, intelligent and can add up.
I'm sorry to say that elements of this thread show the problem. No offence to anyone. But look at the stream of invective thrown at you without facts. The Tories are 100% liars, ie everything is a lie and yet Labour, anti-semitic, online harassing, economically illiterate Labour who were as sleazy in their campaign as the Tories told 0% of lies apparently. And of course we have the papering over of all that is wrong with Labour. And I'm assuming the anti-semitic tweets are all made up and the pictures of Corbyn with known terrorist organisations are all photo shopped. People are not stupid or blind.
Well the working classes certainly sent a message on that to mostly the middle class metropolitan class warriors, the "oooh Jeremy Corbyn" Glastonbury crowd who paid north of £250 a ticket to be in that crowd. Very working class.
Will it be 5 years of joy. No. It's going to be difficult. I personally think we have a bunch of losers on all sides, I stood in that booth for quite a time before putting my vote in. But unless Labour supporters stop moaning about bloody Brexit as the cause (it wasn't) and look in the mirror we sadly will have no decent opposition for anyone to vote for for a generation. Which is a catastrophe for politics.
Still people who can see a result like this, the biggest majority since 1987, see working class areas vote Tory who have NEVER voted Tory, see the SNP destroy Labour north of the border, see a result worse than Michael Foot and still be in denial of the reasons are kidding themselves.
