The Labour Party has had the worst General Election in eighty-four years, that has seen many well-known Labour MPs lose the safest of seats.
The Labour Party has lost the safest seats in Northern England, which for the first time in over hundred years has changed hands with outsider Conservative MP’s.
Even the Prime Minister Boris Johnson was left stunned at so many safe North of England Labour seats that have turned blue. Some of the seats have been Labour held for just under a century; this means that many traditional Labour voters changed to vote for The Conservatives for the first time in their lives.
The former prime minister Tony Blair’s Sedgefield seat was lost after being a safe Labour seat since 1935, to Conservative Paul Howell MP.
Even Dennis Skinner who had been a Labour MP for forty-nine years lost his safe seat of Bolsover, which had been Labour since 1950 to Conservative Mark Fletcher MP, and this has really shaken The Labour Party.
Another top scalp for Labour was Caroline Flint losing her Don Valley seat, that had been Labour since 1922, and she had served since 1997, to Conservative Nick Fletcher MP.
The leadership under Jeremy Corbyn has been shellshocked with the result of losing so many safe Labour Northern seats, with a reduced amount of Labour MPs of just 203 that has been elected to serve in the House of Commons.
Why have so many Labour voters switched to vote for The Conservatives?
The General Election was all about Brexit.
Unfortunately, Labour MPs and the leadership voted time and again against any version of Brexit.
The former Conservative prime minister Theresa May wanted a light form of Brexit, which she saw as a good deal and one which didn’t entail a lot of work to unlock the United Kingdom from the European Union.
Many MPs including Labour MPs voted against all of the proposed amendments to Theresa May’s Brexit - Withdrawal Agreement.
On the whole the electorate and Brexiteers would have supported Labour MPs for not voting for a lighter Brexit deal, which would have meant the United Kingdom still being tied to the European Union, which wasn’t the Brexit that the British people of 52% voted for.
However, when Boris Johnson was elected by the Conservatives to be the next Leader and Prime Minister put through a Brexit deal, which was more harder than his predecessor the majority of Labour MPs still voted down the Brexit deal, which the British Labour voters saw as disrespecting the will of the people who they were supposed to represent in many of the Leave Northern constituencies.
Even the Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn who is a Brexiteer went against his own beliefs and in order to survive being leader and the chance of being the next Prime Minister he switched his allegiance for a Remain stance.
So, the traditional Labour voter lost confidence in the Leader Jeremy Corbyn and the Shadow Cabinet who are all Remainers and the fringe far-left Socialist group Momentum, who pushed Jeremy Corbyn into voting for the United Kingdom to Remain in the European Union.
This infuriated Labour Leave voters and they had no choice but to either abstain from voting or vote for the Conservatives or The Brexit Party, which had an impact in swinging the vote to the Conservatives.
Unfortunately, the Labour Remainer MPs thought that frustrating Brexit the British people would give up and vote to Remain in the European Union.
Corbyn accompanied by Sir Keir Starmer as an Opposition to the Conservative Brexit deal and another team headed by Hilary Benn and included Stephen Kinnock and Seema Malholda kept going over to meet the European Union negotiator Michel Barnier to get briefed on how to stop Brexit and then voted consistently against Brexit in the Houses of Commons.
The British people though fairly laid-backed are not like the Danish or Irish who voted against joining the political union of the Lisbon Treaty of the European Union and later voted for the Lisbon Treaty under duress of their respective governments, because the European Union do not like it when the ‘people’ vote against this dictatorial institution.
Well, any Labour MP that voted for Remain and didn’t want democracy for the 52% of the British Brexiteer voters have now had a wakeup call and should remember that when the British people vote for something it needs to be honoured, otherwise they’ll be unseated.
Even the British Remainers were united with the Brexiteers over the fact that democracy needs to prevail, even though it was against what they the British Remainers wanted.