- Re: -The Tory working class... Archived Message
Posted by Ken Waldron
on December 2, 2019, 7:09 pm, in reply to "Re: -The Tory working class..."
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Great smart arse rebuke Just fact. Thatcher couldn't have got into power without a substantial sector of the working classes voting for her, but I see you get round to admitting that. "...Is this what you want, is your detestation of the working class so great and your love of Brussels so great you'd prefer 5 more years of Tory rule..." "Detestation of the working class "? you want indulged in a medley of "more working class than thou" pish?- I easily could but I'm not going to. On the matter at hand, some of the working classes will vote Tory for Brexit like some voted Tory for Thatcher, or indeed the ones up here that wave Union Jacks will vote Tory for King Billy and the apparent (to them)prospective delight of being "up to their knees in Fenian blood." To me the Brexit jingo creed is pretty much the modern equivalent of the Orange order: working class tools of the establishment whose resentment can be easily played. Clearly I don't idolise either as the authentic voice of working class truth that must be obeyed. In short I dont give a shit that working class folk manipulated by the media into anti European xenophobia are threatening to abandon Labour. They would do so anyway: who is going to vote for a half xenophobic party when they can vote Tory for the real thing? An dn Brexit and voting, the TSSA trade union commissioned detailed polling that showed that Labour will get a lower share of the vote in every seat in the country if it has a pro-Brexit policy than if it has an anti-Brexit one, and importantly: "...if Labour supports implementation of Brexit it would lose a further 45 seats" but would only lose "a further 11 seats" if it opposes leaving the EU. Of its so-called target seats, Labour would not win any from failing to oppose Brexit, but could win five if it campaigns against Brexit." http://www.itv.com/news/2019-02-06/union-poll-shows-backing-brexit-would-be-worse-for-labour-than-iraq-invasion/ - Who to believe, eh? |