FabSwingers.com forum: An Opinion Piece - but harse reading all the same . . .

By *atEvolution OP Couple
over a year ago

atlantisEVOLUTION. Stoke.

https://news.sky.com/story/election-results-polls-serve-up-boris-johnson-a-defining-victory-and-threat-of-historic-loss-12301665

Up here, Mr Johnson was massively bolstered by local Tory Tees Valley Mayor Ben Houchen's huge personal following.

"He's the only one who's ever done anything for us," is how a cab driver in Darlington put it to me.

A freeport, a revived local airport, people in the North East region see a new band of Tory MPs and a Conservative mayor bringing investment into the region, and that has built momentum going into the Hartlepool by-election.

The calculation for plenty of voters here is that nothing really improved for decades voting Labour, so why not give the Conservatives a chance."

By *ercuryMan
over a year ago

Grantham

I think thats right. Stagnation and decline takes away hope.

As seen by the large Brexit support in the area, when the status quo isn't working, the alternative is always going to gain traction.