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@skydancer
It's not racist but classist, and links to the north south divide where northern England has been the manufacturing base for the country and that was destroyed when the Tories (representing money) decided that bolster the financial services and banking sector (mainly in the south), and the privatization of National industries would be better for their own coffers. Part of this legacy has lead to the current depressed/repressed state we're in at the moment
Why working (even middle) class people ever vote Tory is beyond me. Perhaps because of the 'immigrants stole our jobs' myth they continually propagate continually. And the fear of crime they instill