Thread by @deGourlay

The problem with Labour isn't who leads it. It is who it is, the membership and it's MPs. Barring a handful they do not, and never can represent the former working class base that they look down upon as bigots, racists, and flag shagging nationalists.

Keir Starmer can never win back the red wall, they are chalk and cheese. Parachuting into Hartlepool a Remain campaigner who fought tooth and nail to overturn Brexit was the finest example of his arrogance. He knows better than the little people, and he doesn't mind showing it.

The party has nothing in common with itself so how can it be united. It is an odd assortment of Islington trots, and champagne socialists, with a smattering of trade unionists. It needs to split and rebuild from the grass roots. But can it?

The Islington Trots and champagne socialists could form the basis of a left wing socialist party which would appeal to university lecturers, ITV News, Sky News, and BBC employees. But it would never win popular support. Despite the best efforts of their media wing.

The small rump of working class could try to take the party back to its roots. But the workforce has evolved since and now there are fewer than seven million trade union members. Most people don't live in their out of date "them and us" world.

People are aspirational, and they want to do the best they can for themselves and their family. They want to do that in a thriving low tax economy, they don't want to milk the wealth creators, they want to be wealth creators.

The left HATE Margaret Thatcher and it is clear why. She destroyed them. Excluding Blair, who they also hate, they have not won an election since. They are out of step with the British People. Her property owning democracy broke the "them and us" that Labour depended on.

Labour, you played your part in history, your Winter of Discontent brought about the Thatcher government. Thank you for that. now enjoy your retirement.

Sorry for the rogue apostrophe in the first tweet of the thread. 😳