Sheik djibouti
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I would be interested to know how you think they have been let down by a party that has been in opposition for the last 10 years (and for the majority of the last 50+ that it has been a safe Labour seat).I don’t disagree, and when towns like Hartlepool have been let down by Labour, or conversely any other party with a 50 odd year tenure, I wonder how much those populations really care about the reputation or public perception of those politicians and whether they’re in touch or not when what they really want is a party to give them hope?
The voters aren’t stupid, they see and read about politicans every day, the scandals, the rumours, the finger pointing....all of which is sadly ‘normal’ to the media and sells their papers, so so much of that bullshit has to be ‘accepted’ by the public because if it wasn’t they‘d never vote for any party.
Surely the government of the day, of whatever colour, has the ultimate responsibility for ensuring areas do no fall so far into poverty as Hartlepool and its surrounds have. To pin it on the local MP is ridiculous unless they are part of the government making the policies which these decisions and their fate hang on. So yeah, what the Tories have done is sell them a whole lot of hope for a hopeless region, when it was mostly they who made the region that way in the first place!
The Tories sold them hope with Brexit, they sold them hope with the levelling up agenda and I'm guessing the upside of both for communities like Hartlepool will be massively overstated as much as its results will be massively underwhelming. Tory snake oil salesmen at their finest. My guess is that the already pretty s**t lives that many live are going to get a whole lot worse before any prospect of improvement.
But no worries , The Gammon-faced, bigoted racists xenophobes can now sneer and point at the woke liberal/left metropolitan elite and call them the problem, when in reality both sides are guilty of exactly what they accuse the other of. Such is the way of the binary for and against, black and white world in which we live. You either love or you have to hate, you're either right or you're wrong. You either win or you lose.
All whipped up by the politicians and media to make you care/get angry and incensed about pretty ridiculous stuff. . . . and despise those perceived to be responsible for source of anger into the bargain.