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I was only talking to someone who is ten years older than me and has lived all of his life in the upper Rhondda Valley about the number of English people living here compared to when he was younger on the weekend - he told me there are far more living here now than there was.
I was sceptical about the conclusion reached by the title given to this thread when I first saw it, but if it is right that there are something like 150,000 English born over sixty five year olds living in the country and the leave majority was 82,000, it has to follow that they had a big impact in deciding the result in Wales if they voted along the lines that over 65s did nationally.
What the feck?
I hope lardy didn't take it personally that I have downloaded the cartoon because I thought it was funny???
You asked that question before just a few hundred times so here is the same answer. They are elected to do what they think is best not what they think everybody wants.
If MPs were supposed to just reflect their constituents views in parliament then we would have been hanging criminals for most of my life.
If that's the case why hasn't that transposed into Tories otes in other elections .
I just don't buy this theory.
Traditional Labour voters voted Brexit for specific reasons .
My place of employment is valley based manufacturing type industry , wall to wall Labour , 200 plus employed from Ponty and beyond , all Welsh , they heavily voted Brexit , and will do again.
The then went back to labour for the GE .
Because it doesn't automatically follow that all English Brexit voters are/were tories. What is there not to get about a logic which says that English over 65s tended to vote a certain way in 2016, there are, apparently something like 150,000 such voters living in Wales where there was an 82,000 Leave majority, so those older English voters must have had a big impact on the outcome?
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