Jon Worth2d ago

This is quite funny

You can almost hear the cogs beginning to turn in a few minds in the Labour Party

“You mean the white working class aren’t the inward looking borderline racists we’ve been acting like they are since 2016?” 🤯

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/mar/24/labour-party-lost-white-working-class-voters-greens-gorton-and-denton-analysis

Labour lost white working-class voters to Greens in Gorton and Denton, party analysis finds

Lucy Powell says byelection showed people need a ‘reason’ to vote Labour, as senior figures consider change in strategy

The Guardian
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@jon "But senior figures in No 10 and in Labour HQ have since defended Ridley and said she should not be made a scapegoat for what are expected to be very difficult results for Labour in the May local elections, especially in Scotland and Wales."

Why, one might ask, are they expecting "difficult results"?

Mar 25 at 4:01amWeb