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Labour 'too comfortable being too urban', Shadow Defra says
Shadow Defra Secretary Luke Pollard has admitted that the Labour Party has become 'too comfortable with being too urban'.
Labour 'too comfortable being too urban', Shadow Defra Secretary says
- Thread starter nivilla1982
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Labour has traditionally had little contact with rural areas, simply because rural areas have traditionally voted Tory. There will be a few exceptions, but Caithness is the only one I can think of on the spur of the moment.
Labour has rarely if ever made inroads into rural constituencies, so it must be extremely frustrating when they find that the Tories have made significant inroads into traditionally Labour constituencies. So I can quite understand why, in a moment of sheerbile frustration, a senior Labour politician referred to the Tories as scum.
Labour has rarely if ever made inroads into rural constituencies, so it must be extremely frustrating when they find that the Tories have made significant inroads into traditionally Labour constituencies. So I can quite understand why, in a moment of sheer
Tarw Coch
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- Bottom of Wats Dyke
Then they don’t understand who voted for Brexit and why so many of their long term voters voted Tory last general election
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- Carmarthenshire, West Wales
When I first hear that Kier Starmer wanted to bring in 100 000 lorry drivers from the EU, my first thought was, that is going to completely screw any advances in conditions or wages for UK drivers, so to me, that shows that Labour have no interest or connection with hard working people, only the long term unemployed (sorry, I should say those on invalidity benefit) and the public sector employees.
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- Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
I think he qualified it by saying a short term (visa) fix to solve today's issues and then up to Gov and industry to make the LGV driver a more attractive proposition ; money, conditions , overnight parking etc
wanton dwarf
Member
Yep.
Labour are totally divorced from the working man. They either represent benefits or CEOs of Globalist Corporations wanting cheap immigrant workers.
We need a new opposition Party because Labour is on a different planet.
I think the Lib Dems might have been looking attractive just now if they hadn't cancelled themselves at the last election.
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- Carmarthenshire, West Wales
I was keen on the Lib Dems, until they totally dismissed the 52% of the population who voted leave the EU, so they would have to do something very special for me to forge that.
Whoever thought it was a good idea to run an election campaign on completely ignoring a previous vote should have been expelled for life. Whatever your views on Brexit you can't just ignore the result of the referendum.
toquark
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Well all the major parties tried for 3 years.
Tarw Coch
Member
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- Bottom of Wats Dyke
Aye, and look where it got us.
There’s a lot of anti Borris and the way he’s handled Brexit talk on here, they had 3 years to find someone to do a better job but didn’t
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- Hereford
....and he got it done !
Not ideal admittingly but he said he would and he did !
sounds good
Danllan
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- Sir Gar / Carms
His comments seem to need an ever increasing amount of 'qualification'; the 'socialist' Sir Keir seems, for an irony, to be an archetypal reactionary. 'Post hoc ergo propter hoc' could be his motto...
Whereas Boris is defined by “exitus acta probat”!
Just ask the unionist folks of NI…
Danllan
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Nought's over till the fat bloke's done, here's an apt one to you*: Omnia percurrit exhaurire tandem
*Extra Brownie points if you can tell us who it's quoting...
I’m out on that one, and on principle I decline to google it. You may enlighten me at your leisureNought's over till the fat bloke's done, here's an apt one to you*: Omnia percurrit exhaurire tandem
*Extra Brownie points if you can tell us who it's quoting...