Labour feels like its the 'only player on the pitch'. But Reform fighting hard to beat Conservatives into second place in Blackpool South
Labour feels like its the 'only player on the pitch'. But Reform fighting hard to beat Conservatives into second place in Blackpool Southis “like being the only player on the pitch when there is no team to go against you,” according to a Labour insider.One resident, called Mark, said he voted for the Tories in 2019 “because I wanted Boris Johnson to get Brexit done and they just ruined it, and ruined a lot of other things at the same time”.
This series of events have left voters feeling particularly disillusioned and Mr Webb said apathy was still a challenge for Labour on the doorsteps. One local business owner Simon Connelly, who has run his hotel in Blackpool for several decades, said he had taken on a second job just to keep things afloat. “I had to work as a taxi driver at the same time as running my business otherwise we wouldn’t have survived,” he toldMr Webb said: “The last Labour government lifted so many families out of poverty with the minimum wage here in Blackpool including my own. The New Deal for Working people would do the same for so many here.
He attacked the Labour council for “not listening to its people” and accused them of being “arrogant” and said local Tory MPs had “embarrassed” and “let down” voters. Mr Butcher is known in the community through the charity he founded Amazing Graze, which provides food to the deprived and homeless in Blackpool.
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