Britain’s Labour Party Got Woke—And Now It’s Broke

quintette ^ | December 13,2019 | Toby Young

[Hojczyk]

The Conservatives’ resounding victory in yesterday’s British General Election won’t come as a surprise to anyone who spent time canvassing in the ‘Red Wall.’ That’s the name given to a thick wedge of seats in the Midlands and North of England, some of which have been held by the Labour Party for over 75 years.

Not that they have much love for the blond-haired leader. A friend of mine was standing as the Conservative candidate in Newcastle upon Tyne North, where the Labour incumbent won a 10,000 majority two years ago, and I knocked on a few doors for him last week. Every person I spoke to said they were going to vote Tory. In some cases, it was because they wanted to “get Brexit done,” which has been the Conservatives’ endlessly repeated campaign slogan over the past six weeks, but in others it was because of their visceral dislike for Labour’s leader.

That is to say, people in the bottom half of the NRS distribution—skilled, semi-skilled and unskilled manual workers, state pensioners and people on benefits—were intending to vote Conservative rather than Labour by a ratio of more than two to one. (Exit polls suggest the actual figure was closer to 1.5 to one.)

[JLAGRAYFOX]

Exactly what is happening to the Democrat Party right here in the USA....not a leader among them..period!!!

[goldstategop]

Working class voters have deserted the Left around the world.. and it isn’t an aberration. Its a trend.

Get woke, get broke, indeed.

[simpson96]

Enjoyed that headline.

[Jacob Kell]

The Left deserted them first.

[Billthedrill]

As Corbyn’s policy platform in Britain’s election showed, left-wing parties now have little to offer indigenous, working class people outside the big cities—and their activists often add insult to injury by describing these left-behind voters as “privileged” because they’re white or cis-gendered or whatever.

That does sound awfully familiar. Of course, such voters are not really left behind, they're just left behind by the affluent, urban, radical Left. There are other trains to ride.