Labour has always been the party of the working class.

Then Tony Blair came along, and wooed the middle classes. Somewhere along the line, the traditional, hard-working working-class Labour supporter was forgotten. Labour, in its lust for votes of any sort, focused on other segments of the population. It built up an enormous client state for itself, in effect bribing one half of the population with the other half's money.

For the working-class voter, this was an anathema. But they had nowhere else to turn to, given the implosion of Thatcherism-style conservatism. Labour betrayed them.

With the Conservative brand now detoxified and the Tories running on a manifesto predicated on hard work and strong neighbourly roots, it's time to turn away from Labour and towards the Conservatives.

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