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Essex is ready for a Labour revival
Long the home of the ‘working-class Tory’ stereotype, the recent stagnation of the Thatcherite dream means Essex could soon be a Labour heartland, writes LIAM BARRETT
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Keir Starmer’s £120 million to Sudan cannot cover the government’s complicity in the RSF genocide or atone for the long shadow of British colonialism and imperialism, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
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We face austerity, privatisation, and toxic influence. But we are growing, and cannot be beaten
THE year is 2019 and Thatcher’s fiscal policies of the 1980s has continued to have detrimental effects on the Essex towns she once sought to fight for.
The right-to-buy scheme, enabling council house tenants to take ownership of their property with a discounted price, was a huge score for many Essex voters who once saw the Labour Party as their natural choice.
What followed was lower taxation and control of inflation, advantageous for many former inhabitants of east London, who travelled across the Essex landscape with hope for a more suburban lifestyle.
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