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It is so bad, it is hard to know where to start. 1st sentence: Thatcher, elected by the people, an “attack” on the working class? More working-class people voted Tory on 12 Dec than Lab
2nd sentence: defensive editing of her claim to have been traumatised by her father's lay-off from docks which closed 2 years before she was born
3rd sentence: Shell didn't run the docks as social welfare; & they weren't closed to spite RLB & the people of Manchester
On and on it goes. Rarely read anything so poor from someone who aspires to lead a party of govt
Apparently Labour lost the election because its “support has been falling in many communities for a decade or more”
All the more disappointing because I thought she held some promise
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