Some good points I thought the Labour votes would come back at Hartlepool, but its looking like they will fail to get the 45% of the area which is very working class. There are left wing candidates standing who are standing against the Labour Party in Hartlepool.
I disagree on the the last paragraph - Canterbury went Labour, plus Kensington and Putney have gone Labour recently - but the Tories have picked up more red wall seats than blue middle class areas. Where areas are doing well they tend to go Labour, areas struggling tend to go Tory - what does that say?
This board is pretty left of centre - I suspect there are a lot of people on here who have professional jobs or had them e.g buying £40k cars, well travelled etc