UK election: Party loyalties tested in Labour heartlands - BBC Newsnight

[@montygemma]

What I haven't seen here is that there are many people in the north who will never vote Tory but will give Corbyn a kick up the arse by voting Brexit Party. I have relatives in the north and they and a lot of their friends are taking this position.

[@whoflungdung1046]

You are correct

[@MrJackPD]

this video is the same type the media ever make when reporting on this subject, do people not find this patronising? The trumpets, the grey weather, the condescending attitude of the reporter as if she's talking to children from the 1850s?

[@Mediumal]

Aunty Beeb at her patronising worst.

[@paulwilson2651]

Talk about Turkeys voting for a early Christmas. The Tories will help the North NOT!!!

[@ajaya5451]

Tory politicians are not that different from others of that ilk. If those U believe in don't deliver, a surprise occasionally to keep them striving is a needs-must

[@redd_cat]

The Tories are the lesser of the two evils. Labour seeks to destroy every square centimetre of our once glorious nation. They've been bringing us down since World War 2.

[@sman715]

At least they protect our children from mass rape onstead of caring more about their muslim block vote like Labour.

[@enyape]

when sugar turns to shit, you stop eating it! NEW LABOUR , NEW SHIT.

[@davidellis5141]

Labour can ill afford to lose any established 💺. These are must " Holds "

[@paulwilson2651]

@Lucas Davenport Gobble Gobble!

[@redtianime6282]

@@paulwilson2651 bahaha lol

[@AA-pk6fo]

That's becuase they only want the idiot vote and the immigrant vote. They couldn't give a shit about these people.

[@noahbowie5985]

@Lucas Davenport Fuck it I'd rather be bust than see his fucking mug any more

[@kevinbrown4073]

@Lucas Davenport hopefully the labour party will learn a lesson but given some of the responses to your comment they will learn nothing

[@eruno_]

Vote against Labour is vote for Tory austerity

[@AA-pk6fo]

A vote for labour Is a vote for catastrophe and incompetence

[@andyq752]

Sorry, but anyone with an avatar like that just can't be taken seriously. Grow up.

[@redd_cat]

I am happy to live through another 20 years of Tory austerity if it means I don't have to see Labour come to power in its current form. Labour HATES the white working-class people that built and defended this country. They will happily smile and give money to people to make them vote for a Labour MP but behind the mask of lies and deceit, they loathe every last one of them. Labour is no longer about protecting and improving the lives of the working-class, they are now about globalisation and SJW wishy-washy nonsense. Their manifesto should scare any voter with sense. It did that for my left-wing friends, it should do it for you as well.

[@eruno_]

@@redd_cat You are delusional if you think Tory or Libdem plans would be better for Britain than Labour ones. Labour was always and will be the party that looks after the working class and nothing will change this. labour.org.uk/manifesto/

[@Emkei2010]

ユーネ / Yuune ...unfortunately majority of population seems to favour Tories despite their inhumane actions. Victory for Tories will mean Uk will definitely be a finished country for sure. The dumbing down of mass population is irreversible and the U.K. seems to be heading that way. Lol

[@jbagger331]

BBC gently trying to prepare the metropolitan bubble for the bad news of the impending colossal defeat.

[@Abraham_Tsfaye]

163 of the the World's Leading Economists back Labour. To build a better country you need to invest in it. www.ft.com/content/d29b4cbe-0fa4-11ea-a225-db2f231cfeae

[@jbagger331]

@@Abraham_Tsfaye According to all studies economists are wrong in their predictions 50% percent of the time, no more accurate than a dice roll. An Economist cannot predict a shift in weather patterns increasing food supply or when a vulcano erupts and ruin harvests in the Northern Hemisphere. Or if that vulcanic eruption causes a political crisis in a food producing region outside the affected area due to the locals demanding that they are given a greater share of the profits generated. Good night.

[@jbagger331]

@@Abraham_Tsfaye Oh btw, historical examples, Laki eruption and Tulip Fever.

[@michaelheeheejackson7255]

No video about tories losing support in the South then.

[@maxpowerii7368]

James Richard Jeremy Clarkson-Hammond-May what London, hardly the entirety of the South. Also this is just manufactured propaganda to distract from the Labour loss of their own heartlands which massively voted to leave the EU (while their London centric party adopts a ‘neutral’ position). Bit like how Labour tried to invent an ‘Islamophobia’ scandal in the Tory Party (not that it really took off) to cover the ongoing anti Semitism scandal in the Labour Party.

[@GugaGDFABC]

Losing support? The Lib Dems are going to pick up only three seats from the Tories, if the YouGov MRP model is correct. They're getting utterly destroyed nearly everywhere in the South West. And Labour isn't gonna have any gains at all, except maybe in London seats like Chipping Barnet and Putney, where it is tight. So no, the Tories are not losing support in the South. Don't know where you got this fantasy.

[@AA-pk6fo]

They haven't lol ? Whod they lose support to? The parties that won in all the seats? Wait that was the tories lmao. Sucks to lose support to your own party doesnt it

[@eruno_]

Thatcherism and damage it caused should never be forgotten

[@berttjakes6088]

Aydin Inan ..Depends on what happened to you during her reign..I noticed all the UK industry disappear or be taken into foreign ownership..Just depends on your point of view..I definitely remember 3+million put on the dole .. But like I say it just depends on how it effected the individual.

[@andyq752]

What a silly little girl you are. Thatcher would have you for breakfast.

[@berttjakes6088]

Roast Potato ..Thatcher had 3 million workers for breakfast, closed down British industry , foreigners now run whats left of it , China I think is about to run British Steel , and we are directed from Brussels as to our future direction ..It was Great Britain before she took control, it’s now a vassal state.

[@Irishtradchannel]

Thatcher is dead a long time, thankfully. Labour are the current threat to the Working Class. The Tories aren't good but Labour are an existential threat to the Working Class.

[@BossySwan]

Thatcher was a legend

[@PMMagro]

I'm not British but this handling off Brexit is the modern real Monty Pythons cirkus...

[@VanlifewithAlan]

@Lucas Davenport I thought the argument of the BrexiTraitors was to make the UK parliament sovereign - now they are complaining that it is sovereign.

[@VanlifewithAlan]

@Lucas Davenport I suggest you read the referendum act. It clearly states that the referendum was non binding and this was upheld by the courts who refused to prosecute the Leave campaign for cheating. Had it been binding because of the fraud committed by the Kremlin sponsored traitors it would have had to have been done again.

[@PS-py8zf]

@@VanlifewithAlan the remain campaign was fined for not disclosing the spending as well but I suppose you won't want to acknowledge that

[@VanlifewithAlan]

@@PS-py8zf I appreciate that you are trying to go off on a tangent but the issue here is who decides. British people or the ultra rich and the Kremlin. The very reason the referendum was not declared void was because it was non binding.

[@VanlifewithAlan]

@justerthought Your instructions? So you are a Kremlin troll working out of St. Petersburg? Or a Rupert Murdoch hack working for the ultra rich who don't want the EU to close down the tax havens - which is what this is really all about.

[@sagittariusa2283]

If you want an end to Universal Credit and all welfare sanctions vote labour 👍

[@sagittariusa2283]

@Ru22eLL do you think people in poverty give a fuck about any of that? I put it to you they are to busy thinking where the next meal is coming from. All the conservatives have done is overstretched food banks, citizens advice, social services and the NHS to the point they can't cope with their austerity. All they have done with austerity is pass the cost and problem on to the public. When you have disabled people homeless and children going to school underfed in your country then shit is fucked up.

[@andyq752]

Don't forget the Universal Immigration and welfare for all!

[@redd_cat]

@@sagittariusa2283 How about we stop selling our country out? There will always be people who are struggling to get by - you will never ever have a utopia where everyone has everything they could possibly want and need. But if you are so worried about having so many poor people, then stop importing them. The more of them you have, the more stress you put on public health, education, welfare, etc.! Which each of the 300,000 immigrants that we let in, we make it harder for our own people to get a job and get on a career path that could lift them out of poverty. You don't gain prosperity by getting "free" (free as in tax-payer funder) money, you gain it through hard work and the opportunities for that hard work. Labour has its sights set on destroying this country as we know it. If you look at some of the deprived areas you claim to be worried about, be ready to see many, many more like them if you vote in a Labour government.

[@ajaya5451]

When U vote for the same party all your life, the party become complaisant, U need to give them a surprise just for that, election day is the one in 5 yrs when the people are the sovereign

[@scorpion32]

What about the party that has been punching you in face for a decade, isn't their any backlash on them?. When do the plebs rise up?

[@berttjakes6088]

Giggler ..If you don’t like em , don’t vote for em, I’m not voting labour anymore they’ve shown their true colours over a democratic vote of the people, and I don’t like the way their heading anymore, some dark truths exposed under Corbyn..But that’s just me, I don’t like voting for something (Brexit) , winning the vote and then having it destroyed by the opposition, thats not democracy , but it’s wilful destruction of the the party..But let’s see if they win after doing that and lying.

[@YorickReturns]

*We welcome socialists in the Conservative Party. I am a Conservative but I am fine with admitting that Thatcher was wrong. There is nothing conservative about capitalism. Capitalism pushes mass immigration, abortion, promiscuity, drugs, greed. We need to build a patriotic, socialist country. I am very encouraged by how the party leadership have changed their tune over the years. Get Brexit done. Rebuild Britain. No to the Thatcher-Blair-Cameron past!*

[@brianclaridge7695]

A clear conservative election win will get Brxit done and hopefully reshape the Labour party and give it proper leadership.

[@maxfrei01]

Stunned watching this. How they can still blame the EU and vote for the tories after all that has come to light in the last 3 years is beyond me. The education system needs an upgrade.

[@SylvanApe]

Because, as one person said in the report, only one party will actually get us out the EU. People are willing to take the rest of the policies to get this and then redress the balance at the next election.

[@brianrodney712]

" Labour heartlands " ? But I thought they were in North London.

[@michaelheeheejackson7255]

Both.

[@TrevKen]

Usual BBC Bias in support of the Tories.

[@Aarontlondon]

You're right, it's a joke. I feel like not paying my licence fee for this utter garbage.

[@andrewwells6323]

What absolute crap, the former general secretary of the BBC himself, admits the BBC has a left wing bias, the only study done into this "Bias at the Beeb?" by the Centre for Policy, also concluded that the BBC has a left wing bias. Just about every figure in the BBC bar Andrew Neil is a socialist. Reporting a story you don't like is not bias, the media is supposed to report the news.

[@jackowen6929]

think you've been watching a different bbc to me. They are massively left-wing its only because Corbyn is so unpopular that they aren't more open in their support for the center left

[@brazeiar9672]

The BBC has a cultural left wing bias. This is because the sort of people who study film making and art at university are generally very left wing, though I would say they are more Green than Labour. But Labours problems in the North are too big to hide with any kind of bias. Labour spent years telling these people they are racists and lesser, and now they are hitting back, it's hardly a surprise. If you say "I don't want your vote" to enough people, as Labour has been doing, then soon enough you've got no voters.

[@danielcollinson4456]

@@andrewwells6323 stay off the crack pipe

[@acaicompacoca]

Why does the reporter not ask the people in the video what they want/expect from Brexit and how it will make things better, or even make any difference?

[@AA-pk6fo]

Because anything is better than the communist mass immigration policies that labour are offering. These people want more jobs not fewer !

[@fibrespider4502]

@@AA-pk6fo like all the businesses leaving because of brexit uncertainty, a bad deal and import tariffs is definitely going to make jobs.

[@Mediumal]

They did...It was called the Referendum debate and these people voted to leave the EU. A decision you clearly do not approve of, so you want them to now justify that decision by refighting the Referendum all over again. Why did you vote Remain?

[@AA-pk6fo]

@@fibrespider4502 staying in a system that spits on its member states and bankrupts the poor ones is a sure good way of showing solidarity with your fellow europeans

[@inesalguien3454]

@Joseph Brady They don't want to show the truth, which is that these turkeys only want Brexshit above all else because they "don't like foreigners". Clearly, that's the only reason. But that doesn't fit into the BBC's fictional narrative about "life-long Labour voters fed up with Labour because of Corbyn".

[@berttjakes6088]

Why is the BBC not giving us news about the German Farmers uprising ?

[@JesterEric]

May give British farmers some ideas

[@TimTim-jf3pk]

Biased BBC

[@SuperMaester]

How is that biased?

[@brazeiar9672]

Labour only reflects the opinions of metropolitan university educated left wing activists, but in doing so has been actively insulting of its working class northern voters. Remember how it used to imply that any complaint they raised meant they were effectively just a racist? That kind of thing turned those voters away from Labour. The Labour party of old doesn't actually exist anymore, and its closest counterpart is effectively the sort of Boris Johnson soft right, as opposed to the metropolitan Tories like Clarke or the hard right like Chope.

[@johntowers1213]

The paths for men and women to move from traditional working class jobs into front line politic's have pretty much dried up. Such a small percentage of Labour's MP's can call themselves working class is it any wonder they no longer resonate with that section of society ? Right now its a party that's trading on old tribal loyalties generations in the making..if they handle things badly in the next few years they could find themselves in the wilderness. In many ways much of the working class are just small c conservatives.. just looking for a fair deal. For the longest time that meant voting for Labour as a bulwark to the worst excesses of the Tories and there often tin eared approach to dealing with those simple desires. But when Labour stops being the champion of the working man, simply through no longer having representatives drawn from there ranks to connect them to that group....that puts the party on very shaky ground when the electorate catch on. Those voters may not flip to the Tories, but them also not voting for Labour anymore is not conducive to Labour regaining power anytime soon.

[@ProblematicBitch]

Boris on working class men: " he is likely to be drunk, criminal, aimless, feckless and hopeless"

[@AA-pk6fo]

Exactly. They are filth

[@redd_cat]

@@ProblematicBitch Cite your quote. When did he say this? What context? How long ago? Do you seriously think he says it and means it now? Once you're done with that, convince me that every single Labour MP doesn't think the exact same thing.

[@ProblematicBitch]

Boris Johnson said UK's poorest communities are made-up of 'chavs,' 'burglars,' 'drug addicts,' and 'losers' www.businessinsider.com/boris-johnson-said-britain-poorest-chavs-losers-criminals-addicts-burglars-2019-11?r=US&IR=T Boris Johnson brands working class men 'drunk, criminal and feckless' www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/boris-johnson-dismisses-workers-drunk-20984876 The prime minister’s father has suggested the British public is illiterate and cannot spell www.theguardian.com/politics/video/2019/nov/29/stanley-johnson-says-british-public-couldnt-spell-pinocchio-video Boris the Conservative Party leader described the children of single mothers as “ill-raised, ignorant, aggressive and illegitimate” www.itv.com/news/2019-11-29/johnson-disparaging-remarks-about-single-mothers-made-25-years-ago/

[@johntowers1213]

Labour's got some rocky years ahead of it unless it can repair this rift between it traditional working class voters, and its more metropolitan leaning middle class support. A good start would be to put the breaks on the system that's created a career path straight from University to the House of Commons without actually working a job that gives relatable skills to the people you intend to represent. When the Labour Party first achieved electoral success in the 1920s, more than 70% of its MPs were drawn from working-class backgrounds. This has declined drastically from the mid- 80s and in 2018 just 8% of Labour MPs were considered working-class.

[@johntowers1213]

@Ru22eLL Thing is that won't work well either. A tight nit strongly religious socially conservative voter block like that, generates strong opposition to a lot of Labour's more progressively liberal social views. Gay and Transgender rights for example are deep dividing issue within that community to this day. Labour struggles because it try's to straddle often deeply differing communities to pool their votes and finds itself unstuck when presented with issues that polarize those groups against each other. Just look to the mess its got itself in with its traditional Jewish support and its stance over the state of Israel's treatment of the Palestinians. Push the wrong hot topic buttons too often and entire communities can turn on you overnight.

[@benbow7]

@Ru22eLL - then the native British people are screwed.

[@californiadreamin8423]

John Towers This video is typical BBC spin. How on earth communities which were decimated by the Thatcher years, believe that where we are today is the fault of the EU , is beyond me. Did this video present views from anyone other than pensions who could drop dead tomorrow , and if they make it to Hospital face being shoved into a corridor to be forgotten. These negative views from the aged need to be answered at every opportunity. None of those interviewed here, actually said why they wanted to leave the EU, and what damage it caused them. It was the EU which saved them for example from Mad Cow Disease and that is a good place to start.

[@californiadreamin8423]

Ru22eLL The EU banned UK cattle from entering Europe . That's how they stopped it. What did the Tory government do ? They said it was safe and fed it to their children at country fairs to prove it was safe !!! "The EU want to import Africa ". That explains everything.

[@alex-sv8ru]

John Towers the thing is, Labour is not selling progressivism to socially conservative muslims and blacks.

[@SOUNDWAVEMAN]

I am struggling to sleep at night because of the importance of this election. A Labour government is absolutely essential. People who vote Tory really don’t understand how they have screwed themselves over and everyone else too.

[@chrismorris4392]

Foolish ignorant leftist.

[@joecurran2811]

This shows Corbyn really fucked up by throwing the referendum. All these Labour voters who are now voting Conservative...

[@Irishtradchannel]

Labour spent years shi77ing on the Working Class. Did as much damage as Thatcher did.

[@redd_cat]

They have done far more damage than Thatcher ever could, and they seek to do far worse things.

[@hellpuppehps3]

Is sad how bankrupt of ideas our political establishment is, there must be a solution to the underlying problems that caused people to vote brexit that isn’t shooting ourselves in the foot... universal basic income maybe..?

[@redd_cat]

That is downright socialism - a model that has crippled every single country it has touched. Giving people "free" money is a terrible idea. If you get something for free, you will waste it. If you work hard for something, you will conserve it. Btw the reason I put "free" in quotes is that nothing is ever free. You would just have much, much higher taxes all over the place to attempt to pay everyone a flat fee. Many of these areas are in a terrible deprived state not because of cuts, but because of rapid de-industrialisation and globalisation. These families used to have trades and independent businesses and were made redundant as their job moved overseas thanks to a transnational conglomerate.

[@realityalwaysbulliesopinio1961]

Labour started the privatisation of the NHS with their PFI deals and Corbyn is quiet as a mouse about it. His NHS privatisation story is a cover story to divert attention. They also want to remain or remain in the EU Vote Brexit Party for a true Brexit

[@michaelheeheejackson7255]

Blair did, Most people agree Blair is not Labour. It is easy to deny it.

[@realityalwaysbulliesopinio1961]

James Richard Jeremy Clarkson-Hammond-May They do, even though Corbyn and other members of Labours current front bench were in Parliament at the time. Makes no sense that their defending against privatisation now

[@cockoffgewgle4993]

@@realityalwaysbulliesopinio1961 Lol if you think Corbyn was ever in favour of PFIs. Farage would burn the NHS to the ground if it wasn't so unpopular.

[@realityalwaysbulliesopinio1961]

Cockoff Gewgle None of the Labour MPs currently on Labours front bench spoke out against the privatisation at the time even though they were in Parliament regularly. They still won’t speak about it to this day. It’s easier to blame somebody else. Feel free if you have solid proof otherwise Farage suggests the higher earners and super rich pay for insurance outside the NHS and with controlled immigration will take the pressure off the current NHS. At the same time training our own doctors and nurses for the future whilst cutting our foreign aid bill in half to give extra investment without additional debt. Labour plan is to just keep throwing money raised from debt at it and keep everything more or less the same. They propose spend, spend, spend increasing our current debt which is costing £40bn per year in interest payments alone and the next generation will be forced to pay it back. You can’t just keep increasing debt and expecting things to get easier.

[@cockoffgewgle4993]

@@realityalwaysbulliesopinio1961 Cite the specific bill Blair passed re: PFIs, if there was one. Corbyn has voted against any privatisation of the NHS at every opportunity: www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/10133/jeremy_corbyn/islington_north/votes What your Tory master suggests already happens. 11% of people have private healthcare. What he's talking about is privatisation. Junior Doctors are leaving the NHS in their droves due to the contracts the Tories forced on them. A third of NHS Doctors are immigrant, about 14% of the general population is. But you say immigration is a problem for the NHS? Explain. Most immigrants are young and working age-- that's why governments love them. It's old people who are the biggest expense, by far. They're much sicker. Have you ever been in a hospital? And I'm not in favour of mass immigration, these are just facts. New Labour did a lot of shady shit. It did a lot of good stuff but it was all built on a housing bubble (caused, partly, by building zero council houses) and a fraudulent financial sector which became the biggest in Europe, as well as PFIs which burdened the NHS and schools with huge debts. Farage has literally just joined a coalition with the Tories and you still think he's for the working man lol. Another couple of decades of Tory rule and this country will be like the US for worker's rights, healthcare, home owner rights, benefits etc etc. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_Union_Act_2016 If you think that's worth the trade-off of leaving the EU and having maybe 100k less immigrants each year (because the Tories have completely failed to bring it down to 10s of thousands), then I think you're making a big mistake.

[@davidedwards2471]

Can’t believe the comments up North, we have Sodexo doing catering, porters jobs, cleaning. A private company. The car parks not run by the nhs. The private company running the ambulance service. Labour had private finance initiative to build our hospital with crippling financial problems to the NHS. Nuffield have NHS surgeons what is there left to sell. If you have a Brexit Party vote for them.🕷🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️

[@grossherman3841]

There is little loyalty to any political parties these days, people are better informed and understand that nothing is free whatever they promise. People know what borrowing does, more debt, more interest, more downward slide. Promise the world to everyone and when they can’t deliver it, blame the nasty Tories...

[@mathieuleader8601]

It will be sad if Dennis Skinner does not become the Father of the House

[@Mediumal]

His Party has let him down, and if he loses his seat, he will only have himself to blame for not keeping faith with his principles and tell his Leaver constituents that he is full square behind them. His loyalty to Corbyn is very misplaced.

[@MisterstereoOso]

BBC reporter putting words into the guys mouth, he only said he would not be voting Labour & she leapt him in & said Conservative ! I reckon he will vote Brexit party.

[@Red_Blue-u7o]

The End of UK

[@PMMagro]

Brexit is yes, but Britain (without Northen Ireland) can do well outside EU still.

[@AA-pk6fo]

@Cowardly Custard how pathetically abhorrent the labour party have become they their own core support are deserting them. Labour now voting on gullible youth and migrant workers

[@alex-sv8ru]

Olek Olek yes Labour are now relying on ethnic minorites (particularly blacks and muslims, they've scared away Successful minorities like Indians and jews), younger liberal minded people and champagne socialists.

[@fingerscrossed2453]

Is anyone still voting for the same party that's been in control for the past 9 years? If so, why?

[@owen5847]

Because the alternative is... - A far left communist state project that'll take us back to the 70's. - A party that is infested with Jewish racism. - Jeremy Corbyn premiership - A rigged EU referendum between Remain vs Labour Remain minus - A nightmare minority coalition with the SNP THAT WOULD HAPPEN and lead to the collapse of the UK in 2021.

[@owen5847]

And because most people don't want to put Labour in power (even worse) just for the sake of something different.

[@fingerscrossed2453]

@@owen5847 First of all labour are not the only alternative to the conservatives. There are green party, etc., alternatives. Secondly, life in the 70s where a family of four could live on one persons salary and mortgages had 10/20 year lifespans rather than 40/50 ones does not sound so bad. Public services weren't at the mercy of corporations and unions could be better counted on. Oh, and Socialism birthed the NHS, asshole (which is being put on the table to be dismantled by the current party in power). I suppose you don't mind? The racism claim is questionable. The current PM has on the record used racist slurs ('letterbox/picanniny'), and the last PM of the same party was responsible for the wind rush fiasco (institutionalised racism at it's finest). Your EU comment needs clarification as it makes no grammatical sense (or it does and its 2am?). Also devolving the UK may not be such a bad thing (providing the leeches at buck house are removed first). Wales has been getting the short end of the deal for a very long time also. It is time for a change; real change for the many and not the few if you ask me. Also, can I just say that it is truly amazing how quick bullshit conmentators jump on any mention of an alternative to the current status quo, are you guys getting paid waiting on standby?

[@owen5847]

@@fingerscrossed2453 The left is dying out, that's a fact. Socialism has never worked. Trump, Brexit, Boris. You deserve it all. You arrogant maniacs don't know how to resignate or talk to anyone anymore. You just name call and demonise anyone who disagrees with you. You accept nothing that doesn't go your way. And you refuse to listen to anyone else. I'm enjoying every moment of this. Have fun losing again next week.

[@fingerscrossed2453]

@@owen5847 it's laughable that you're so hateful of a doctrine that basically holds sharing taxes with the the poorest in society with such distain. I feel sorry for you. on on the one hand i hope you never have to use something like the NHS because you sound like you do not deserve it, because you do not have any respect for it. On the other hand if your words do come to pass (god forbid), I hope that one day you do need the national health and have trouble accessing it, so you leant to appreciate it (in retrospect, if nothing else)...and for nothing too bad, maybe just like a papercut or whatever. socialism is always hijacked by the small selfish b*st*rds that see the good that can be achieved when the sweat off the brow of the people is put back to them, and then try and profit off of it. I have not trouble accepting the theft of the people - I see what has happened to society in the past 40 years since there was last a socialist government in the country. The unions were eroded, leading to workers becoming slaves again while corporations have been able to get away with absconding from paying a fair amount of tax whist simultaneously offering increasingly shittier customer service. Banks have been deregulated, industries have been sold off (along with jobs). And yet the left dwindles, as people realise they have nowhere left to turn as their government turns against them and towards the billionaires which have infiltrated them. maybe it was always like this, but is more obvious now? Anyway, I digress. Here's hoping the majority of the nation have make more sense than your rambling - I don't have much faith, but I at least have some hope. As for arrogance, I can think of little more arrogant than the statement 'have fun losing again', as if it is a sure thing.

[@captainlockheed]

Just keep spreading the word and show people page 71 of the Labour Manifesto. Close French Migrant camps, invite them and their famlies here, close the detenion camps here, and resume rescue efforts in the med, see if voters are happy about that. It's there in black and white.

[@BossySwan]

Anyone considering voting Labour need to book themselves an urgent appointment at a psychiatric clinic.

[@ImranAli-tm3rq]

Why do bbc only show interviews with corbyn haters?

[@guitareddy100]

Vote for the brexit party . Democracy must prevail as a lesson. Marxist corbyn is not the answer

[@matthewbaynham6286]

The BBC bias is laying it on a bit too thick.

[@coffeeandcrochetwithkelly1930]

I can't believe you aired the rabid feminists making noises. I just saw the video. Shocking what you consider relevant content.

[@zhilin5258]

that's great news

[@randomuser4201]

Boris attractive to women? Is that all that matters pet? Think that cataracts has set in.

[@redd_cat]

That's obviously a joking remark. These are not 14-year-olds, they can see past looks.

[@redd_cat]

Voting Labour because their fathers, and fathers before them, also voted Labour. They don't realise that the party their family had such faith in has now turned on them and their heritage. I'm seeing a lot of my friends turn towards Tory for the first time because they've realised just how extreme Labour has become.

[@footscorn]

I thought Merseyside stayed staunchly red, with Labour holding on to every seat?

[@eruno_]

The red wall will not be breached

[@AA-pk6fo]

Just wait you silly sausage haha

[@alongsleep]

Get Brexit done!

[@scorpion32]

Main lesson here: kick a labour voter long enough and he'll turn around and vote for you.

[@redd_cat]

I think you typed that one wrong. Did you mean "and he'll turn around and vote *against* you"?

[@Pribbip]

SCABS

[@BossySwan]

Kinder gentler politics

[@georgeevans6185]

Vote Brexit party 👍

[@deepthought3316]

Still biased BBC..

[@Jamal-Ahmed786]

He's a socialist but because of brexit he's voting capitalist. What a stupid logic

[@edmsing]

I couldn’t believe my eyes, just saw a woman that appeared to be a little over fifty-years-old, gray haired, anchoring a televised newscast…just kidding, not in this lifetime…however, in keeping with current marketing trends, her lips were deep red and greasy looking…

[@davidellis5141]

Copy & Paste Troll 📢