Tony L
Administrator
But he got Labour electable. And New Labour had a majority in Hartlepool of 17,500. You may have forgotten that.
In fairness there is a very different climate now. People in northern working class areas had sat through 14 or so years of throwing plastic chairs at plexiglass windows in Job Centres before that majority. Britain Trump’s economic reality has yet to hit home. It will, I am sure of that. There is a heck of a lot of unemployment and poverty hiding right around the corner as the Tories have zero clue about the changing economic reality beyond knowing how to siphon £bns for themselves. The people of Hartlepool etc are about to get reamed, as are any ‘working class’ areas expecting any change from a billionaire oligarchy when it comes to the inevitable unemployment and poverty that comes from a world that no longer needs mass labour.