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Thank you Paul, Labour is out of touch and needs to get in touch!!

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Tell me about it!

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Have a great time off Paul over the Christmas Break! I think next year is going to be a very interesting year for pushing back against the way Labour is going and I predict you will be getting many more followers!

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Many thanks, Mary.

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Hello Paul and Merry Christmas to you! At the risk of creating an ‘echo chamber’ I agree on all the points above.

As an active trade unionist myself now, I would add that the heads of my union appear to reflect the attitudes and values of the MPs rather than perhaps the rank and file who they purport to represent. This is odd as they have supposedly come through the trade to get there. It seems a self-perpetuating self-selecting oligarchy is at work ensuring that they replicate like a bacillus across the political Petrie dish.

It also seems to me that socially there’s very little difference between the parties, the differences - in social policy at least - being largely those of degree not content.

I may just be a conspiracy theorist to some but I believe this is true.

Here’s to a New Year of your provocative and thoughtful postings.

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Thank you. I agree with much of the above. Merry Christmas to you, too.

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Tony Blair coined a phrase’Meritocracy’

Well here you have it practice, without parents to support your schooling practically, psychologically and more often than not financially , working class kids get left behind and this is where the rehetotric of the Labour Party becomes platitudenous drivel (diversity policy)

Working class parents are often exhausted making a living, putting food on the table, cleaning house etc to have the head space and contacts to advance their children’s careers. So this is not a negative it is total respect for these families

Politicts, Take Blue labour a fringe movement within your party - the party will adopt your ideas but will not let any of you near anywhere positions of power

Keep pissing in the wind Paul.

Merry Christmas to you and yor family

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Seeing Anna turley Heidi Alexander, Emma Reynolds, Gareth Snell all who lost their seats last time bar Alexander contesting seats that had voted leave where they wanted a 2nd Referendum for remain

Where In Turley , Reynolds case blaming Corbyns lack of patriotism for their seats loss

Really wreeks of London Middle class university educated Saviours not realising the 2nd referendum lost it and their failure to apologise they feel the public will want them back ignoring it last time

Other red walls that fell pre 2019 in Areas like Essex, could have been seen as a sign for 2019

And if it wasn’t for seats where labour won such as Thurrock in 1983

That the 2006 wipe out in East London Essex

Labour also losing Lewisham to the libdems or Hackney to the greens and the Coalition and Blair find after Iraq seeing labour win back lewisham and Hackney

While labour won back council seats from the BNP or ukip

It was easier to win votes back from the libdems in lewisham

And not realising it was easier for those who won votes beck off the libdems,

than off Ukip or the BNP

To insult those who won council seats off of ukip/ bNP

By having that 2nd referendum it’s made it

harder for labour to win votes at a national level back, in 2024.

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