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King of Kensington
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« on: December 05, 2019, 01:43:57 AM »

What makes Catholics in the UK more likely to vote for Labour? I doubt all of them are Irish descendant, right?

Liverpool and Glasgow are probably the most "Irish" cities in Great Britain (by descent - London got most of the 20th century immigrants).
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King of Kensington
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« Reply #1 on: December 05, 2019, 01:46:11 AM »

Have Jews historically been a strongly Conservative demographic, or was there a big swing to the Tories due to Corbyn among them?

From what I understand they were Labour voters until the 1970s, then embraced Thatcher (who represented a very Jewish constituency), voted for Blair and Brown, and then swung away from Labour under Miliband.
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King of Kensington
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« Reply #2 on: December 06, 2019, 03:17:08 PM »
« Edited: December 06, 2019, 03:20:38 PM by King of Kensington »

But outside the U.S., Jews mostly vote on economic interests, which sometimes (Canada, Britain) means being right-wing, but in some places is more ambiguous (France).

The Jewish community in Canada votes mostly Liberal, though Orthodox Jews are more Conservative (i.e. Thornhill).
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King of Kensington
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« Reply #3 on: December 06, 2019, 03:39:51 PM »

No matter how "rogue" the Tories go, they're still basically the bourgeois party in Britain.

Why upper class twits like Johnson and Jacob Rees Mogg are considered "populists" astounds me. 
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King of Kensington
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« Reply #4 on: December 07, 2019, 11:13:26 AM »

Torygraph: Tony Blair and Sir John Major are throwing a lifeline to Marxist Jeremy Corbyn
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King of Kensington
Junior Chimp
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« Reply #5 on: December 07, 2019, 07:44:21 PM »

NRS social grade vs. social class identity

ABC1 

Conservative  41%
Labour  28%
Lib Dem  17%

C2DE

Conservative  44%
Labour  30%
Lib Dem  10%

Middle class ID

Conservative  42%
Labour  24%
Lib Dem  23%

Working class ID

Conservative  44%
Labour  32%
Lib Dem  8%

https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/articles-reports/2019/11/25/how-well-do-abc1-and-c2de-correspond-our-own-class
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King of Kensington
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« Reply #6 on: December 07, 2019, 07:52:28 PM »

More recent NRS grade:

ABC1:
Conservative 40%
Labour 33%
Lib Dem 15%
SNP 5%
Green 4%
Brexit Party 3%

C2DE:
Conservative 44%
Labour 34%
Lib Dem 8%
Brexit Party 4%
Green 4%
SNP 4%

YouGov 2-3 Dec

https://twitter.com/GoodwinMJ/status/1203316984164835328
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King of Kensington
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« Reply #7 on: December 08, 2019, 10:05:26 PM »

How much damage can the Brexit Party do to Labour?
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King of Kensington
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« Reply #8 on: December 09, 2019, 03:22:25 PM »

Only Boris Johnson can save us from the anti-Semitic Corbynites:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson-book-jews-control-media-general-election-a9239346.html
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