Aneirin -> RE: The Return of Tony Blair (1/28/2010 8:58:51 PM)
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I remember the election where Bliar seemed to come out of nowhere and become PM, I remember hearing the voices of people whom I worked with and some of my then adopted family. It was vote labour, I asked why, the answer was, because we do, we always vote labour. I asked which policies in particular they liked, the answer was no idea, don't care beyond we want a labour government, the party of the working class. This was in the dreaming spires of Oxford, but, I have heard the same thing before in the small close minded Northern town I came from, people then voted labour as a matter of tradition, their fathers and grand fathers have always done so, so they follow in their footsteps. But Blair's first innings, the traditional labour voter learned exactly what they had allowed into power, New Labour was not the Labour party of old, New labour it seemed couldn't give a flying fuck about the sub working class, for they identified the working class as something else, certainly not the sink estate dweller, the traditional labour voter. So, yes, I can see why the BNP is going from strength to strength, maybe it is the labour traditionalist of old who feels betrayed by their party, making that vote, be it one of protest or not. Maybe New Labour failing the traditionalist voter have given the BNP the life it needs to become a problem.
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