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Post by greenhert on Sept 22, 2022 18:35:32 GMT
The important thing to note is that we're talking here of a workforce and an occupational subculture that no longer exists in a meaningful sense just as much as we might when discussing miners or other large groups of industrial workers. The rapid mechanisation of agriculture following the Second World War eliminated the overwhelming majority of labouring jobs in agriculture and led directly to the mass movement of much of the rural poor out of the countryside: the biggest social change and population movement that most people have never heard of. The electoral effects for the Labour Party in the countryside were not pretty, but it probably benefited them elsewhere. To some extent this also affected the Liberal Party; that said the majority of rural constituencies outside Norfolk still elected Conservative MPs in 1945. Such seats as Buckrose, Clitheroe, and Eye were the exception rather than the rule. |
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Post by wysall on Sept 22, 2022 20:47:30 GMT
The important thing to note is that we're talking here of a workforce and an occupational subculture that no longer exists in a meaningful sense just as much as we might when discussing miners or other large groups of industrial workers. The rapid mechanisation of agriculture following the Second World War eliminated the overwhelming majority of labouring jobs in agriculture and led directly to the mass movement of much of the rural poor out of the countryside: the biggest social change and population movement that most people have never heard of. The electoral effects for the Labour Party in the countryside were not pretty, but it probably benefited them elsewhere. "Between 1955 and 1983 [...] in the most urban seats there has been a swing to Labour of 1.5 per cent while within the most rural ones the Conservatives have benefitted from a 19 per cent swing." From How Britain Votes, 1985. |
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Post by john07 on Sept 29, 2022 20:54:10 GMT
The important thing to note is that we're talking here of a workforce and an occupational subculture that no longer exists in a meaningful sense just as much as we might when discussing miners or other large groups of industrial workers. The rapid mechanisation of agriculture following the Second World War eliminated the overwhelming majority of labouring jobs in agriculture and led directly to the mass movement of much of the rural poor out of the countryside: the biggest social change and population movement that most people have never heard of. The electoral effects for the Labour Party in the countryside were not pretty, but it probably benefited them elsewhere. "Between 1955 and 1983 [...] in the most urban seats there has been a swing to Labour of 1.5 per cent while within the most rural ones the Conservatives have benefitted from a 19 per cent swing." From How Britain Votes, 1985. I don't dispute your point but selecting 1983 as the endpoint does distort the figures somewhat. The overall Conservative lead in 1955 was 3.3% as opposed to 14.8% in 1983. |
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Post by Robert Waller on Dec 8, 2022 16:56:20 GMT
2021 Census
Owner occupied 65.2% 304/573
Private rented 19.1% 240/573
Social rented 15.7% 261/573
White 94.9%
Black 0.6%
Asian 2.5%
(South Asian 1.4%)
Mixed 1.3%
Other 0.7%
Managerial & professional 27.3% 432/573
Routine & Semi-routine 30.8% 65/573
Degree level 23.7% 513/573
No qualifications 23.3% 79/573
2011
Degree level 19.5% 469/573
No qualifications 29.2% 83/573
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Apr 15, 2023 14:58:46 GMT
2019 Notional result on new boundaries | Con | 31749 | 66.0% | | Lab | 10911 | 22.7% | | LD | 3704 | 7.7% | | Grn | 1689 | 3.5% | | Oth | 22 | 0.0% |
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