Comments by "" (@charliemoore2551) on "BETRAYAL: Starmer shafts workers on International Workers Day." video.

The Labour Right has always betrayed the working class - even though it depends on their votes to survive. Time for the working class to say "This far and no further". Vote Green, vote SNP, vote Plaid, vote for local independent labour candidates. Let them win the votes of the "middle ground" and realise how pointless that is if they lose the support of the working class.
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@RobinHarris-nf4yv There have always been working-class Tories but if you're saying working-class people generally are Tories then you'd have to come up with an explanation for the huge majorities Labour get in the mining communities of South Wales, the North East, Liverpool, East End of London etc. The in-roads Tories have made into the so-called Red Wall in recent years has been caused by workers (and especially younger workers) abstaining, not from them becoming Tory.
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@lemsip207 " ...the younger you are the less likely you are to vote". That is a statistic posing as a fact; a variable wrongly considered to be a constant. But there is no reason that it can't be changed. People who vote for an unjust system which favours them are more likely to vote again if they get an unjust system that favours them. People who vote to get social justice and don't get it are more likely to give up voting. That's why young people and poorer pensioners are less likely to vote.
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@lemsip207 Couldn't agree more
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@lemsip207 "The core Labour and Lib Dem votes are each lower than the Conservative vote". I'm not sure where you got that one from. If you mean Tories are more likely to vote than prospective Labour voters, yes, that's true. That's because the Tories always promise a more unjust society which favours the better off, and keeps that promise so the better off keep voting for them. Labour voters tend to be disenchanted because Labour promises social justice but has always delivered the opposite - especially under Blair and Brown. I don't call that apathy. That's blaming the voters for not accepting the poor alternative that Labour offers.
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