Why (or how come) its NOT about Blue Team v Red Team
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My dad likes to reduce all politics to blue team v red team… as if it were an Everton v Liverpool football match and you pick your team and then are biased towards them. But that is not how the British public think and feel anymore. Yes, there are exceptions. A small amount of the British public do still think like that. But the majority do NOT think and feel like that. This is not the 1950s, 60s, 70s, or 80s. The British public are on their own side and do not need or want a team out there to identify with. Identifying with both a class and a political party is minority sport. Even ideology is over in that there’s not any substantial difference between left and right on crucial money issues. (e.g., as many of the Tories new voters in 2019 believed in a socialist society as a free market capitalist society, see
Why (or how come) its NOT about Blue Team v Red Team
Why (or how come) its NOT about Blue Team v…
Why (or how come) its NOT about Blue Team v Red Team
My dad likes to reduce all politics to blue team v red team… as if it were an Everton v Liverpool football match and you pick your team and then are biased towards them. But that is not how the British public think and feel anymore. Yes, there are exceptions. A small amount of the British public do still think like that. But the majority do NOT think and feel like that. This is not the 1950s, 60s, 70s, or 80s. The British public are on their own side and do not need or want a team out there to identify with. Identifying with both a class and a political party is minority sport. Even ideology is over in that there’s not any substantial difference between left and right on crucial money issues. (e.g., as many of the Tories new voters in 2019 believed in a socialist society as a free market capitalist society, see