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Post by Deleted on Jul 8, 2024 22:13:19 GMT
It seems that it's one of those areas where gentrification/demographically-derived improvement in the Conservative position may have gone so far, but no further. Some parts have swung quite sharply to the right, but some small towns & villages still have an entirely working-class social composition & can still be won quite heavily by Labour (if it bothers to stand candidates!). I remember some years ago that the former Somerset coalfield not so very far away also saw Labour fail to contest some ex-mining villages in local elections, perhaps the organisation has improved now (judging from Rees-Mogg's defeat it has). Though the gentrification has tended to be Of A Type. It seems to have some sort of "wild out of the way" attraction to what are commonly described as "arty" types (essentially, some of it has undergone a mild form of Stroudification). But let's not get carried away - this is still a relatively working-class seat, and one that Labour could have one by more if it had been targetted earlier |
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Jul 9, 2024 9:48:47 GMT
It's quite appropriate given that this is effectively The Bishop's old constituency (albeit it doesn't any longer include his home area) that the new Labour MP is Matt Bishop |
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Post by cogload on Jul 9, 2024 12:18:25 GMT
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