Certainly where I grew up in Scotland (an old mining town), most folk voted Labour because that's what their fathers had voted and their fathers and their fathers..... you get the picture. There was no thought put into what the policies actually were. Course this appears to have changed a little, as the MSP for the area appears to be SNP, but at a more local level, it's still staunchly Labour (and orange).
Knowing your age [1], I doubt Labour existed much beyond your contemporaries' grandfathers' time. [1] Taps side of nose
In a lot of Northern areas older generations voted labour because of memories of how the tories them or their parents in the 1930s, when their was high unemployment amongst mine workers. Certainly my maternal grandmother always refused to vote Conservative because 'they' had forced her parents to sell their family piano in order to claim unemployment benefit. -- AndrewR, D.Bot (Celeritas) Aprilia RSV-1000R, Honda VFR750F-L BOTAFOT#2,ITJWTFO#6,UKRMRM#1/13a,MCT#1,DFV#2,SKoGA#0 (and KotL) BotToS#5,SBS#25,IbW#34, DS#5, COSOC# Suspended, KotTFSTR# The speccy Geordie twat.
I bet it was that Maggie Fatcher that did that. Hilda wasn't good enough for her, she had to steal our school milk to make whippy ice- cream for the toffs and stopped the working classes from having joanna's so they could here the chimes when Mr Whippy was coming round.
Evil squirrels? -- AndrewR, D.Bot (Celeritas) Aprilia RSV-1000R, Honda VFR750F-L BOTAFOT#2,ITJWTFO#6,UKRMRM#1/13a,MCT#1,DFV#2,SKoGA#0 (and KotL) BotToS#5,SBS#25,IbW#34, DS#5, COSOC# Suspended, KotTFSTR# The speccy Geordie twat.