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9. Much was made of the UKIP encroaching on Labour territory in the Northern Heartlands ..

Reply to Anarcho-Socialist (Reply #7)

Sat Jul 18, 2015, 09:54 AM

Jul 2015

.. with the assumption that this meant a drift to the right.

Curiously enough, my observation locally is that it didn't - it meant a drift to anti-Westminster community-based "populism," into which a Corbyn-led party of the left would have a fair bit of traction.

Note that in my neck of the woods, left-wingers Ronnie Campbell and Ian Lavery saw off UKIP quite satisfactorily.

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