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Labour is taught a class lesson
In the aftermath of Labour’s defeat BILL GREENSHIELDS explains why it happened, cautions against rushed judgements and shows the way forward
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ON the day following the general election dominated by the Brexit issue, there are those on the left  who will be seen as again saying to working class people: “You’re too stupid to know what you’re doing” — just as we were told following the EU referendum. It seems almost designed to alienate anti-EU working class people from left organisations

Look at it like this.

In the European Union elections in May the Brexit Party won the most votes in Britain and became the largest single national party in the European Parliament. Does this show that working-class people “supported” the Brexit Party? If they supported it then, why did they dump it yesterday in the general election, in favour of the Tories?

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