I take no joy in the notion that poor misguided Labour supporters across the North will vote for a Tory Brexit having been conned and lied to. Some will lose jobs, homes and prospects for a generation. How on earth isn't that a very sad state of affairs?
They wont as was the case at the last election. In 'vote leave' Peterborough the Labour party won the by-election, an astounding victory. a Johnson led Tory party will get tonked at the next election.
I am reasonably optimistic this will not happen to any significant degree, Charlie.
A guy from Liverpool called Liam phoned in to LBC yesterday afternoon, on the Sheila Fogarty programme.
Sheila and most the callers had been stating how concerned they were with the message Johnson was sending out by appointing such a motley collection of right wing nutters to his Cabinet.
Liam came on and asked why anyone was surprised at this.....he said that is the type of Cabinet we should have had in the aftermath of the Referendum and it was what we needed to ensure Brexit happened.
He declared himself an unreconstructed Brexiter.
He was then asked how he saw voting going in the North when the GE comes.....will Labour Leave voters defect to Tory in order to get Brexit “over the line”.
His answer?
An emphatic NO.
He must be in the Wavertree constituency because he said his MP was that Berger woman and that she had a thumping 20,000 majority last time and that there was no way even Leave voters in Wavertree were going to vote Tory.
Including himself.....Liam said he wants Brexit but not at the price expected to be paid by Johnson’s well heeled fanatics.
He will be voting Labour, as per.
Now, on this thread the other day I addressed the conundrum that Labour Leavers are going to face come the Election....especially oop North.
Is Brexit so important to them that they would rather vote in this crowd of cutters and slashers whom are going to double down on austerity to make their Kamikaze idea of no deal Brexit work?
The financial threat to their livelihood in the here and now and the future prospects of their children under this regime will be far more important to them than unicorns gambolling in sunlit uplands IMO.
They now see the face of Brexitannia sitting there smugly on the Government front benches.
And I am willing to bet they don’t like it
