Most of the North is going full reactionary. Unions are mostly weak or uselessly centrist. The militants of previous generations are retired and wedded to their house prices. What was disillusionment with Labour is now mostly disgust after the shitshow of the last few years. Even a lot of older well-meaning dem-socs were tricked or bullied into voting against labour (either Green or Lib Dem) in the European election over some idiotic EU flag waving protest vote and almost none came back to Labour in the general election. And for lots of people who used to consider themselves left wing the centrist voice of the Labour Party and totality of the media has called them nothing but racists, lunatics, thugs, Russian stooges, and anti-semites. The only vote they've gotten anything out of in 25 years is voting for Brexit, many out of pure frustration.
The most ardent have given up. The hopeful organisers have resigned themselves to charity work that'll help prop up ongoing austerity. The vast majority see no point in fighting an impossible battle & would rather vote for the winning side to save face at least since they have nothing else left.
I see more Q-Anon references and slogans than I do Labour signs here. It's fucked, it's going to get worse, and most have accepted their fate or thrown themselves of the deep end.
Most of the North is going full reactionary. Unions are mostly weak or uselessly centrist. The militants of previous generations are retired and wedded to their house prices. What was disillusionment with Labour is now mostly disgust after the shitshow of the last few years. Even a lot of older well-meaning dem-socs were tricked or bullied into voting against labour (either Green or Lib Dem) in the European election over some idiotic EU flag waving protest vote and almost none came back to Labour in the general election. And for lots of people who used to consider themselves left wing the centrist voice of the Labour Party and totality of the media has called them nothing but racists, lunatics, thugs, Russian stooges, and anti-semites. The only vote they've gotten anything out of in 25 years is voting for Brexit, many out of pure frustration.
The most ardent have given up. The hopeful organisers have resigned themselves to charity work that'll help prop up ongoing austerity. The vast majority see no point in fighting an impossible battle & would rather vote for the winning side to save face at least since they have nothing else left.
I see more Q-Anon references and slogans than I do Labour signs here. It's fucked, it's going to get worse, and most have accepted their fate or thrown themselves of the deep end.