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Election result - disaster for working class people

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lemongrove Fri 13-Dec-19 10:47:10

Well said Annecan It’s what some find so unpalatable isn’t it, that working class people rejected the LP this time around.
What they really rejected was a couple of Marxists telling them what was good for them.Annoy the electorate at your peril!

Teetime Fri 13-Dec-19 10:45:56

Well said Annecan.

Annecan Fri 13-Dec-19 10:41:18

The working class were not taken in by benevolent Corbyn, his momentum pals and the great British give away.
The working class voted overwhelmingly for the Tories.
The working class know exactly what they are doing and where the best outlook for the UK is.
The working class were not bullied by left wing luvvies whose only way to win votes for their ultra left wing party was to pour insult after insult upon the very people they pretend to represent.
A great day for democracy and for MY working class.

Witzend Fri 13-Dec-19 10:40:33

It was Jeremy Corbyn/Momentum who lost it for Labour.

Ultimately this result will be good for Labour - if they ditch the would-be Marxist element and return to the centre left with a credible, electable leader.

But I see that many of them are blaming it all on Brexit. And look at JC's stance on that - his backside firmly glued to the fence all along, presumably not because he didn't truly know his own mind, but because he wasn't sure which stance would win more Labour votes.

He has always reminded me of the student activists who stood outside the student union building every lunchtime when I was a student in the late 60s, handing out Marxist Society leaflets and trying to flog The Socialist Worker.

lavenderzen Fri 13-Dec-19 10:29:17

BJ - Whether you love him or hate him, he was advised well, did what was needed to be done and has a landslide victory! You cannot get away from that.

Opal Fri 13-Dec-19 10:29:15

And if that doesn't give them the result they want Ug, we'll do the best of three! grin

Urmstongran Fri 13-Dec-19 10:25:47

Maybe we didn’t know what we were voting for?
Perhaps we ought to have a another GE!
?

QuaintIrene Fri 13-Dec-19 09:58:39

Maybe the working class oop north who have chucked their Labour MPs did it to halt Jeremy Corbyn.
Not necessarily because they have suddenly become born again Tories.

merlotgran Fri 13-Dec-19 09:48:10

A disaster for working class people? Even the ones who voted Conservative which was their democratic right?

Oh, hang on. I get it. They were too thick to know what they were doing. hmm

Septimia Fri 13-Dec-19 09:44:10

I don't particularly like him.

But then he's marginally better than Corbyn who I find to be a slimy character. I don't know how supposedly intelligent people could be taken in by him. And his morals aren't much better, are they?

grannyrebel7 Fri 13-Dec-19 09:39:22

Well I hope all you people who voted for someone who consistently lies (even lied to the Queen) didn't have the strength of character to appear on hardly any of the TV debates and has the morals of an alley cat, are well and truly satisfied now! God help us all.