But up to the 70s the city voted Tory. The city became poor and started voting Labour.
Also the owners,Bob Paisley and the players were a mouthpiece for the Tories in the 70s and 80s. Liverpool FC was founded by Tories.
Also Klopp is right wing. He supports Merkel.
Liverpool can't blame Thatcher for its decline. It was a kip long before she came to power.
Also your club in the 80s brought Thatcherism to football. No more gate sharing with smaller clubs and doing your own TV deal with ITV in the 80s. No protest from your fans of course
The Labour Party didn’t exist when Liverpool was founded. The main choice was Tory or Liberal - not much of a choice. One of the reasons the Tories held Liverpool especially during the first half of 20thc was their stoking of anti Irish anti catholic fears. Some things never change - the Tories will always attack immigrants, people of colour or a different religion. Their 60s campaign poster “if you want a coloured for your neighbour vote Labour” says it all. Pure scum.
Whilst Klopp may respect Merkel (and let’s face it no matter your political leanings it’s hard not to admire her bravery and humanity in taking 1m refugees) he is on record as saying:
“I'm on the left, of course. More left than middle. I believe in the welfare state. I'm not privately insured. I would never vote for a party because they promised to lower the top tax rate.”
Thatcher accelerated the city’s decline and as a party they all but gave up trying to convert it back to conservatism and their covert policy towards the city, only relatively recently revealed, was one of “managed decline”.
It’s true that Paisley and some players didn’t follow in the footsteps of Shankly in regards to politics but at that time they very much didn’t reflect the seismic shift in the city.
Even now the current owners are out of step with the fans and have been forced to climb down on ticket price increases and the furlough scheme - due mainly to fan backlash at a perceived sense of greed.
Nowadays politically Liverpool is lost to the Tories and it’s hard to see them regain a foothold there. Much of the rest of the country have settled for austerity, cuts to those who can least afford it, decimated public services and all mixed in with xenophobic poison. Maybe c19 will make people see sense but I doubt it. Expect a whitewash inquiry blaming anyone but the govt. At Orgreave it was the miners, Hillsborough it was the fans and Grenfell the firefighters.