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Mycatisahacker Sun 19-May-19 22:18:35

Or rather not still it’s because

Mycatisahacker Sun 19-May-19 22:16:48

Yep I am a working class kid from
The midlands and well remember Thatcher the miners strike etc.

However calling people thick still got us Brexit.

MaizieD Sun 19-May-19 21:44:41

I think it’s that attitude that got us where we are today!

Do you now.

Well, I lived through the 1980s in Yorkshire. In a mining town. I saw those lads being shafted from both sides during the miners' strike, by a charlatan union leader and the Thatcher government. They were loyal and strong and enduring and they totally lost out. All that pain with nothing to show but closed pits and no jobs at the end of it. How any of them could trust a far right wing demagogue now is totally beyond my understanding. If it's not stupidity what is it?

Mycatisahacker Sun 19-May-19 21:01:08

I cannot abide the woman by the way.

Mycatisahacker Sun 19-May-19 21:00:43

I think it’s that attitude that got us where we are today!

MaizieD Sun 19-May-19 20:19:42

Not all northern working class men attended the rally, Mycat. Just the stupid ones.

After all, Anne Widdecombe. I ask you. A former minister of the party that destroyed their livelihood?

Mycatisahacker Sun 19-May-19 18:52:05

Mmmm Maizie that’s a bit patronising isn’t it?

Northern working class men are not stupid.

Mycatisahacker Sun 19-May-19 18:19:20

It is just bloody strange grin

jura2 Sun 19-May-19 18:13:03

beggars belief sad

MaizieD Sun 19-May-19 18:05:50

She's just pressing their buttons. Working the crowd with nothing of substance to say.

Wobbles Sun 19-May-19 18:00:17

It's like living in a parallel universe confused

Mycatisahacker Sun 19-May-19 16:11:53

No cheered just go onto u tube it Twitter!

So Margaret Hodge telling people to vote Lib Dem! Hesteltine not voting Tory!

Labout in recent polls are 5th in the polls in Scotland!

Couldn’t make it up!

EllanVannin Sun 19-May-19 15:57:55

Are you sure it was cheered and not jeered ? Hahahaha

Mycatisahacker Sun 19-May-19 15:40:07

So I see Anne Widecome was cheered by former miners in the north at a working mans club.

Yes seriously it’s true grin