Colour me surprised.
Frontbencher Rachel Reeves, tipped to be a future Labour Party leader.
‘Traditional voters, who perhaps at times we took for granted but had nowhere else to go, are now being offered an alternative by Ukip. Our voters, if I can still call them that, see Ukip [as] a party who are offering a vision and a hope that things can be better. They hear something from that party that resonates with them and with their fears for the future and that’s something very real that we have to contend with and it’s something real that we have to contend with for two reasons.
‘First of all, for purely electoral reasons, we have to hold on and build that coalition again of our traditional voters. The Labour party came into existence to give a voice for ordinary working people. What I saw... were middle class, public sector, well-educated young graduates voting Labour, but the people who the Labour Party was set up to help, abandoning us.’
I have said here for many long months, that the reason I, who should be a classic working class labour voter, has abandoned the party is that following the rule of the "Son's of Thatcher”, (Blair, Brown, Milliband,) supporting it is no longer an option. A party which was built on the blood and sweat of ordinary working working-class people, abandoned its core voters, and became the party of the dole claiming, disabled, single-parent, Muslim, lesbian immigrant, staffed and supported by the hand-wringing middle-class-guilt brigade.
Nice to see it being recognised.
ETA changed a typo in the heading, fortunately before BSG spotted it
