Why I am voting Labour


CONFESSIONS OF A BAFFLED BREXITEER.

The basic choice at this confusing election is between “Get Brexit done” and “Get austerity stopped” That means that however many minor Parties are now in the fray it is essentially a choice between the Conservatives and Labour.

That poses a real problem for your’s truly. I voted against joining the European Union in 1975 and have urged withdrawal ever since . It’s brought no real benefits but has become a drain and a burden on our fragile economy which  now cuts us off from  the growing world

Yet I’ve  supported Labour ever since I joined the party in 1956. I did so because Labour worked for  the masses not the classes. It tilts the social balances to the people and  built Britain’s good society of full employment,fairness, welfare, health and education which Britain enjoyed until Margaret Thatcher demolished it.

Today the choice is less clear cut. The Tories support Brexit and propose to turn the spending taps on and end the austerity theory themselves  imposed. Labour has become  middle class and dominated by metropolitan trendies who want to stay in the EU and respond to the fashions of the South while taking the North and their traditional core support for granted.  

That’s the cross pressure of 2019 and lots of others feel it though they might be pulled in different directions.How is it to be resolved? I deplore Labour’s daft position on Brexit but my Party is more important than by desire to escape the EU trap.

 I will  vote Labour as I always have done. The need to reverse austerity and make good the damage its done to services, local government health, education and the infrastructure is greater than the economic drain and the loss of powers to Europe.

 Labour still stands for the many not the few it has always boosted public spending while the Tories have cut it and even now will be meaner. Labour has been better (though far from good enough) for the North and our former  one industry towns like Grimsby which I love and Sowerby Bridge where I live. They all need the boost of jobs, investment regional development and extra spending Labour will bring after the austerity years of drought .And don’t give the old “can’t afford it” guff. If we can create £375 billion of new money to save the banks we can creage less than that to save the people. Labour must. If it looses the North, as it’s already lost Scotland, we’ll never see a Labour government again. And boy do we need one

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