believe that they represent the best interests of the working class, then feel betrayed by actual real working class people
Happened in the 80s, happened the other week, will happen again. Hence the crisis of faith - it's hard when people undermine your theory of what those people should be.
(, Tue 5 Jul 2016, 0:06, Reply)
I'm still unashamedly lefty though!
(, Tue 5 Jul 2016, 0:14, Reply)
raised in the hard left, softened as I'm my own adult now, but firmly on that side. I think this explains why lefties are always so glum though...
(, Tue 5 Jul 2016, 0:19, Reply)
As are many folk I know.
Although I see where you're coming from.
(, Tue 5 Jul 2016, 0:35, Reply)
No one bothered to explain to the self employed plumbers and plasterers why access to the single market is vital to them... you know, if they fancied driving all the way from Oldham to do a spot of plastering in Frankfurt, they could!
All the fuss about plasterers and plumbers from the EU moving to the UK and undercutting their rates was correctly brushed under the carpet with the righteous broom of anti-fa.
(, Tue 5 Jul 2016, 13:13, Reply)
Which is why they lose so often.
(, Tue 5 Jul 2016, 15:21, Reply)