Lifelong Labour Voter Explains Conservatives’ Victory: Libs Are Killing Our Culture
“No one asked the people of the UK if we wanted our culture and way of life destroyed,” remarked British politician Janice Atkinson last year. Now her nation’s left-wing Labour Party has just been destroyed in the December 12th election because, as researcher Sumantra Maitra put it, the “woke” Left would not and will not “move right on culture and nationalism.”
To understand the magnitude of the conservatives’ victory, their biggest win since 1935, imagine “Kentucky voting for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in the presidential election,” wrote Maitra. He elaborates, “For those who have no idea about the electoral map of the United Kingdom, the entire Midlands and North of England are traditional working-class Labour [liberal] voters since Margaret Thatcher broke the back of trade unionism in the 1980s.”
Issuing an I-told-you-so last week was firefighter, lifelong Labour voter and union activist Paul Embery. Writing at UnHerd, he says that while the media were shocked at the conservative victory, it didn’t surprise those paying attention (as with Trump in 2016). For while the British working class had sounded alarm bells in a couple of recent years’ elections, he lamented,
the woke liberals and Toytown revolutionaries who now dominate the [Labour] party didn’t listen to us. They truly thought that ‘one more heave’ would bring victory. They believed that constantly hammering on about economic inequality would be enough to get Labour over the line. In doing so, they made a major miscalculation: they failed to grasp that working-class voters desire something more than just economic security; they want cultural security too.
They want politicians to respect their way of life, and their sense of place and belonging; to elevate real-world concepts such as work, family and community over nebulous constructs like ‘diversity’, ‘equality’ and ‘inclusivity’. By immersing itself in the destructive creed of identity politics and championing policies such as open borders, Labour placed itself on a completely different wavelength to millions across provincial Britain without whose support it simply could not win power. In the end, Labour was losing a cultural war that it didn’t even realise it was fighting.
Me: There may be hope for GB after all.
https://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/europe/item/34381-lifelong-labour-voter-explains-conservatives-victory-libs-are-killing-our-culture