Don't Kill Bill
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I agree its broken the party. I think that it is as much to do with the Labour Party's reaction to those Brexit voters as it is to do with the party's positions on Brexit. The Labour party has spent the four/five years between the referendum and this election calling them ignorant racists. The funny thing is they then expected Brexit voters to ignore that and vote Labour. You really have to be other level stupid to not understand that your messaging has to be better than that but there are segments within the party who just can't help themselves.I think people underestimate the impact of Brexit as a catalyst of breaking through tribalism and allowing older staunch Labour voters who have drifted to the right as their circumstances became more comfortable to vote for a party they detested with their entire being 30+ years ago.
Where a lot of these people hated the Tories because of Thatcher and the war on the Unions and the working classes, they now hate the EU and liberalism which they believe has failed them as they sit in their £300k house they bought for £18k and moan about a younger generation who have it easier than they do.
Deal with the poverty of opportunity in these towns which drove the Brexit vote in the first place or Labour is doomed.
I wonder if the Labour party is now so southern/metropolitan centric that it can not touch the truth about the iniquity between the North and South directly because it is too afraid of losing southern or city dwelling labour voters by developing effective policies to remove their institutional/structural advantage.