Corbyn gone

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Bolton, Hyndburn, Preston, Burnley all lost to the Tories, which just goes to prove you can kid the kids some of the time, but a lot of these kids are not stark raving bonkers and are really not to be messed with.

I was out last night on a Christmas do at Holmes Mill BT, I was sat next to a lovely lady who worked as a carer, looking after handicapped and disabled people, and she was telling me the hours she worked and what she got paid. I felt ashamed to live in a country that paid her such a pittance for the incredibly difficult job she did while still sending over £20 billion abroad to the EU and in Foreign Aid. She wasn't best pleased about the Foreign Aid either, but what really got her goat, what really annoyed her, was not her low wages, although she wasn't happy about that, it was the fact that she knew people who, because of our benefits system, received more money from the government for sitting on their backsides at home all week, than she got for working 60/70 hours including night shifts, weekends and bank holidays.

To me she was a typical, decent, hard working lass, she didn't want hand-outs, freebies or benefits, she wanted to stand on her own two feet and pay her own way in the world. I have no idea who she voted for, or her views on Brexit, I never asked, but to me she's symptomatic of why Labour's Red Wall in the north came crashing down, they just can't get their heads round ordinary working class people like her, and there are millions of them up here.