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Fear and othering are the easiest emotions to activate. They comfort – to a point. Then, constant division with no actual solutions becomes exhausting; self-defeating: keeping people trapped in a trap they start to recognise as a trap. Burnham's defeat of Reform shows endless rage doesn't win.
🔴 Burnham Wins Makerfield: Can 'Politics of Place' Now Offer an Antidote to the Poverty of Possibility?
"Thatcher closed the pits with little provision for alternatives. Few benefited from New Labour's aspiration. The area was abandoned to itself" @peterjukes.bsky.social @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social
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Andy Burnham won in Makerfield by focusing on the 'politics of place'. A decade on from the Brexit referendum, and abandoned by both Thatcherite Conservatism and New Labour, constituencies like Makerfield *finally* need some action.
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