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''Nigel Mirage'' hahahaha.
From what I understand from others who had lived in the areas of both Clacton and Dagenham - both Clacton and Southend were traditional holiday destinations for Ford blue collar workers based at Dagenham, while Frinton was the destination for Ford white collar workers. Frinton is within the Clacton constituency.
When the Ford Dagenham plant was fully operational, it employed some 40 000 or so people in the Barking and Dagenham area. Alongside this the BNP were active and elected as local council members. When the plant all but closed, many of those workers took and used their redundancy pay to move to those holiday destinations where some already had holiday chalets and caravans. Clacton therefore had an influx of those BNP voters with redundancy payments and pretty good Ford pensions. Their voting instincts may tend to flow from there.
Due to the history outlined above, there was some animosity between Clacton and Frinton from the workers v managers mindset that had prevailed. Frinton had tended to be a traditional Tory place with a resident association known as the 'Terrible Twelve' with a fearsome reputation for resistance. The local joke was once that they should be sent to Afghanistan to sort out the Taliban. Maybe due to the collapse of Tory support at about the time of the last general election, Frinton joined Clacton in becoming more Reform voting.
The gentleman in the video clip does seem to have a local accent, and not one from the Dagenham area. Also at his age he is less likely to be so.
My English granny (I say that as until recently I had an Irish one too) would have been 96 now. During Brexit she complained that it was her generation [edit; being blamed] for voting Leave. Her point was that it was not those born in the war years that had that mindset, but their children who she used to say were ''children with minds poisoned by Thatcher''. Certainly when you see how yougov for example bundle all those age 65+ into a single cohort, she may have had a point.
From what I understand from others who had lived in the areas of both Clacton and Dagenham - both Clacton and Southend were traditional holiday destinations for Ford blue collar workers based at Dagenham, while Frinton was the destination for Ford white collar workers. Frinton is within the Clacton constituency.
When the Ford Dagenham plant was fully operational, it employed some 40 000 or so people in the Barking and Dagenham area. Alongside this the BNP were active and elected as local council members. When the plant all but closed, many of those workers took and used their redundancy pay to move to those holiday destinations where some already had holiday chalets and caravans. Clacton therefore had an influx of those BNP voters with redundancy payments and pretty good Ford pensions. Their voting instincts may tend to flow from there.
Due to the history outlined above, there was some animosity between Clacton and Frinton from the workers v managers mindset that had prevailed. Frinton had tended to be a traditional Tory place with a resident association known as the 'Terrible Twelve' with a fearsome reputation for resistance. The local joke was once that they should be sent to Afghanistan to sort out the Taliban. Maybe due to the collapse of Tory support at about the time of the last general election, Frinton joined Clacton in becoming more Reform voting.
The gentleman in the video clip does seem to have a local accent, and not one from the Dagenham area. Also at his age he is less likely to be so.
My English granny (I say that as until recently I had an Irish one too) would have been 96 now. During Brexit she complained that it was her generation [edit; being blamed] for voting Leave. Her point was that it was not those born in the war years that had that mindset, but their children who she used to say were ''children with minds poisoned by Thatcher''. Certainly when you see how yougov for example bundle all those age 65+ into a single cohort, she may have had a point.
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