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the new 'chaos with ed miliband'

Always fun to think about how farmers got absolutely screwed by Trump in his first term and responded by voting for him in even greater numbers.

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katie0martin.ft.com•1 day ago

Farmers are consistently the craziest voters everywhere

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aphclarkson.bsky.social•1 day ago

Though the Greens are beginning to build up a rural vote in parts of England, which points to a different kind of eccentric politics over time

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scottlgreer.bsky.social•1 day ago

English rural areas are mostly higher income than neighboring urban/suburban, few farmers, and a lot of those are toy farms. Are those Green voters farmers or somebody else, eg WfH professionals in cottages?

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pibasedlifeform.bsky.social•1 day ago

More to do with them (and the Lib Dems tbf) being very keen on listening to NIMBYS and BANANA voters

Not sure that helps anyone

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aphclarkson.bsky.social•1 day ago

NIMBYs vote and there are many more of them than YIMBYs are willing to acknowledge.

YIMBY top down technocratic politics is walking straight into a grass roots rural backlash

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mcdaragh.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Driven by a deep and abiding sense of cultural insecurity and resentment dressed up as "common sense" and down to earth sensibility.

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pibasedlifeform.bsky.social•1 day ago

You saw them all clustered around Badenoch yesterday

And you are like (bit like the fishermen) you want sympathy but look who you are voting for?

They are voting against you! Why are you voting for them?

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