“The Tories Don’t Give a Shit About Us.” “I Know. But.”
After last week’s defeat, our immediate task must be to protect the current political project within the Labour Party — the only one able to meaningfully unite the broad working class.
Labour Party supporters before a campaign rally on December 05, 2019 in Birmingham, England. Darren Staples / Getty
“The Tories don’t give a shit about us.”
“I know, mate, but . . .”
The weekend before the December 12 election that proved so disastrous for Labour, I had not one but many exchanges like this. I spent that Saturday and Sunday out canvassing for Labour in Walsall and Stoke-on-Trent, two towns in the West Midlands, part of the Labour Party’s ex-industrial heartland.
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