Are The Westminster Labour Party Distancing Themselves From Their Core Voters, Those Who Happen To Live In The Typical Labour Northern Heartlands Of The North?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3636164/Revenge-betrayed-Abandoned-metropolitan-political-elite-lives-utterly-changed-mass-migration-Labour-s-northern-heartlands-swing-Brexit.html

/// They see an ivory-towered elite telling them that the debate should be about the economy and not immigration — on pain of being labelled ‘racist’, as Labour frontbencher Pat Glass called an entire Derbyshire village the other day — when the voters themselves regard these key issues as one and the same thing. ///

[Jackdaw33]

I think Labour is in for a rather large shock come the 24th.

[Svejk]

They are taking their voters for fools.
I couldn't possibly comment.

[Orderlimit]

Haha Svejk, yeap an awkward one !

[youngmafbog]

It's not just Labour that is taking people for fools and indeed not just in this country either. Hence the rise of the likes of Trump and others.

I had thought Jezza was going to be a breath of fresh air too with principles (I may not share his views) but it would appear the Establishment, in the form of the Union paymasters this time, have crushed him making him an irrelevant puppet.

[anotheoldgit]

I have just noticed that there was no need for me to add "Of The North"

Sorry!!

[naomi24]

Labour has for a very long time taken its core voters for fools. What a pity the Labour stalwarts can't see it.

[Gromit]

The Labour Party has a great problem.

Most of its MPs are Blairites, who were parachuted into safe constituencies. But the members have reverted to a more traditional Labour. The result is the leadership and members are of one opinion, and the parliamentary Party, of another.

The MPs should follow party policy, but won't. So de-selections may have to occur to again make the MPs represent grassroot voters.

[jourdain2]

No - they've distanced themselves from their core vote up here for years and years and also from those who would have been prepared to give them a chance. The anger is palpable.

[Gromit]

And I wonder what the Consrvatives core voters are making of Cameron and Osborne?
Corbyn should be fine whatever the result, but is Cameron's position safe?

[jourdain2]

Gromit - I don't think the Conservative core vote is secure either (from what I hear|). We shall live in interesting times (and be biting our fingernails me
thinks).

By the way, isn't it lovely that I can unthinkingly use 'me thinks' and still be understood? Continuity of culture and language. \;0)

[tonyav]

Desperate dodgy Dave say's he isn't going to quit.

http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/david-cameron-says-he-will-not-stand-down-even-if-he-loses-the-eu-referendum/ar-AAgWwZ3?li=BBoPWjQ

[Togo]

//By the way, isn't it lovely that I can unthinkingly use 'me thinks' and still be understood? Continuity of culture and language. \;0) //

That was Arabic "culture" jordaine penned by the world famous Sheik Spir. I know that I have used it many times on AB myself.

[jourdain2]

Fine by me Togo- all enrichment. :)