This is sadly very true and why I will not be voting for the foreseeable future. Corbyn and his cronies are ruining the party.

What changed for you from when you were a member? Interested as to how that change appeared to you, were you directly sidelined by other groups within the party?

No, ours were always cold. You must have gone to a public school.

Big chest and massive boobs

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True. And corbyn's fraternising with the 'RA has isolated more paddies than attracted us to his beardy lunacy . In the 1970's we all voted Labour. I very much doubt it's still the case.

Kayla did Anfield & Old Trafford

It's always winter in Scotland.

COYP

I remember walking home from a branch meeting with a university educated, bearded, fellow party member discussing some of the older union oriented members – trouble is the unions are all racist he said. There was a definite divide between the older truly working class members and the younger more upwardly mobile, perhaps better educated, members. I was also active in my union at the time and was conscious of the same divide at union branch meetings – and yes, a good few in the union were more or less racist. I guess my move away from Labour was seeing Militant gaining so much influence, seeing out and out communists at meetings. Final straw was Michael Foot becoming leader. Also the irresponsibility of many of the unions with politically motivated strikes leading to job losses – led by communists (mine union was NALGO – relatively moderate, but I do recall overhearing a group of communists at conference plotting their interventions).

We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. [Orwell]