Sean Fear’s Friday slot?
Is Labour Losing The Former Mining Areas? One friend of mine drew my attention to the fact that Labour had fared badly in local authorities across the old coalfields, on May 3rd. Coal mining bound voters to the Labour Party, being hard, dangerous, work, carried out by a completely unionised workforce, in tight-knit communities, most of whose inhabitants rented their homes from the National Coal Board. The comfortable capture of the Forest of Dean District Council, for the first time,…