Quote Originally Posted by Fenster View Post
I'm shocked Labour got annihilated and don't believe it's entirely down to Brexit. All i've heard for weeks and weeks from the media, social media and celebrities is what a massive racist pathetic thick cunt anyone is who doesn't support Jeremy Corbyn.

I guess that bubble is smaller than it seems and certainly doesn't resonate with the working classes.
I noticed it last year. That was when I did my notorious U turn on Labour. It was there that I saw that people just weren't happy with Labour and I saw how things had changed. When you have been away a long time the changes really hit you in the face and not in a good way. I had empathy with it and hadn't realized just how bad the inflow had become. It is shocking really. Though people do want a fairer economic system, they simply do not care for the EU, massive changes to their communities, or like the constant cat calls of racist etc. You could see from even those micro exchanges that people had changed. These were Labour people that couldn't vote that way again and the result has been that they didn't vote Labour.

And totally when you are called a racist cunt constantly it gets your back up and someone who might otherwise share some of your views will give you the middle finger. I am not even a voter, but I can see why people voted Tory as it was them Labour or the Lib Dems in a Brexit election. Personally I would go with another party, but it would be a wasted vote at this stage. The big elephant the Tories will need to face is immigration and that will be their headache as they have ignored it for a decade and people haven't quite realized that it is now post EU migration. That will be the next big thing and could be the Tories Achilles Heel a few years from now, but for the time being it is theirs and Labour can never challenge them on immigration. It will take a new party growing like UKIP did to push that. I can see it happening.