Peter Mandelson in 1999 said:
"Labour's working-class voters had nowhere else to go"
Well in the recent election in Hartlepool Labour's working-class voters,
have found somewhere else to go.
Peter Mandelson has taken to the airwaves to blame
what he's called the two C's Corbin and Covid.
On Covid we're being told that the vaccine bounce is the reason
that the Conservative party are doing so well.
But that doesn't explain why the Green party
have taken council seats from the Labour party.
And then the other 'C' Corbyn.
Jeremy Corbyn held Hartlepool in 2017 and 2019.
The general election in 2017 is the first election since 1997,
that Labour has won more seats but it's treated with a pariah status
that the right of the Labour Party want to pretend never happened.
Busy trying to relive the 90s Keir Stammer thought that it would be
a brilliant idea to wheel out Peter Mandelson.
"It's great to be back in Hartlepool."
At the same time that they were running a national campaign
against Boris Johnson on the issue of sleaze!
This man Peter Mandelson is kind of like an icon for sleaze
it was just incredible to see this almost like clown car operation
from the people who posed as the professionals the sort of
grown-ups who said that they were back in charge of the Labour party.
Stammer and those within his camp spent the last year of his leadership
waging a war on the left of the party rather than
taking the fight to the Tories who have literally got away with murder.
We shouldn't forget that 150,000 people,
have died over the course of this pandemic.
While Labour have been talking about Boris Johnson's wallpaper
we haven't held the government to account.
"He's not scoring open goals."
"I've said I'll support the government.
We've supported the government.
Then I support the government in doing something about that."
God man if this is a drinking game and you drank every time he said
I support the government you'd be like passed out by now wouldn't you."
"It's confusing me now I thought he was Labour."
While Keir Starmer busy spending his time telling everybody
that he isn't Jeremy Corbyn and not setting out who he is.
The Conservative party are selling a vision to the country
and to working class communities such as those in Hartlepool,
and in the North and the Midlands of a party
that wants to see investment pumped into those communities,
and we've seen that in the course of these election results.
You had Keir Stammer turning up to a pub at 11 o'clock in the morning
to pose with a pint over Boris Johnson turning up into the constituency
and he might be telling a pack of lies when he talks about
the 'leveling up agenda' but their message is stronger for people.
And the tories have even adopted Corbyn and McDonnell's language
they're talking about: 'The Green Industrial Revolution'
They're talking about: 'Northern Investment Banks'
Moving the treasury to the north of England and selling it to people
who are then going out and voting for it in their droves.
"What made Labour voters defect to the Tories or other parties
the most popular reasons given were Keir Starmer,
and Labour's policies or lack of them."
There is nothing to celebrate off the back of these election results
a Tory party that serves the interests
of the incredibly wealthy and the incredibly powerful
cementing itself in working class communities.
If the Labour party stops taking the piss out of working class people
then maybe just maybe working class people
will stop taking the piss out of the Labour party.
And that means the working class in its entire diversity.
Yes it's working-class voters in Scotland, Hartlepool, the Northeast,
the Midlands who have rejected the party but it's also
young working-class people in the cities who are starting to think
that maybe the Labour party isn't for them.
And if Labour ends up in that position where it's losing voters
from across its entire coalition then it's doomed to failure.
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