Published on 12, July, 2020
Just wondered if people on here are happy or unhappy at the general election result last week? I stayed up most of the night to watch the results come in.
It would be wonderful if we could have a calm, logical, reasoned political discussion on here that doesn't result in anger, name calling and the mods locking the thread
Come on guys lets prove we can do it!
No because they don’t care about the disabled at least Lib Dem’s do!
I would never vote Tory, but my biggest doubt re Labour was fuelled by their failure to show concern for the disabled and vulnerable. I told myself it was purely tactical, that things would change if elected. It's early days yet, but the signs aren't exactly encouraging.
I think the greatest trick the Labour Party has propagated throughout history is that it cares for the working class and disadvantaged. At least the Tories are honest about the fact they don't care about us. Labour pretend they do and then don't do any different from the Tories
The Labour party as it is now is a mix mainly,not exclusively, of the socially liberal-economically centrist middle class, and a more socially conservative but economically left wing working class. Increasingly over the years the former have dominated Labour's political direction of travel. It's not so much that they don't care about the working class, it's more that they're out of tune with what working class Labour supporters want. Under PR I think that sooner or later they'd go their separate ways.