Tend to agree Trug - but Boston to me is a more extreme version for left behindness, partly because of its remoteness. Towns such as Bradford and Huddersfield are daily commutable to the like of Leeds and Manchester, but Boston is not a daily commute to a Metro City or London. In Boston local agricultural wages stayed low and fell back in relative terms to the wages in the cities. This was all prior to 2016. Voting Tory was partly because voting for Labour and Liberals etc was not helping. In fact voting in left behin areas was dropping prior to 2016 because they felt it made no difference. Many people I imagine were feeling disenfranchised. People were so desperate in Harlepool they formed their own Local Labour candidate. The scraps mentioned were often more disability bebefits hence some towns/areas ended up with 33% on disability benefits, many of those in receipt would prefer the pride of real work. I have noticed the media don't like focusing in these issues, maybe because it does not affect them directly. The BBC to their credit do occasionally do news stories and articles and even a documentary Mighty Redcar (although the political angle was kept out).
