www.nytimes.com/2019/12/20/opinion/uk-election-labour.html
… The mines of County Durham, the pottery workshops of Staffordshire and the textile factories of Lancashire… Onetime Labour strongholds stretching from West Bromwich on the outskirts of Birmingham to Blyth Valley near the Scottish border… Bolsover in the North Midlands and Bishop Auckland in the North East… At the end of the 2010s, they simply fell off a cliff.
All seats lost by Labour in the northern and Midlands districts voted for Brexit in 2016, according to Alex Niven.
(Alex Niven, “The Labour Party’s Spectacular Defeat Had Been Coming for Decades,” NYTimes, 12-20-19)
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www.nytimes.com/2019/12/20/opinion/uk-election-labour.html
All seats lost by Labour in the northern and Midlands districts voted for Brexit in 2016, according to Alex Niven.
(Alex Niven, “The Labour Party’s Spectacular Defeat Had Been Coming for Decades,” NYTimes, 12-20-19)
(c) 2020 JMN
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I live in Texas and devote much of my time to easel painting on an amateur basis. I stream a lot of music, mostly jazz, throughout the day, and watch Netflix and Prime Video for entertainment. I like to read and memorize poetry.