I live in the a Labour area, guaranteed 60%+ for the candidate at every election since the 40's. It is a socially deprived area, which seems to mean everyone eats a lot of takeaways, live in a terrace house and watch sky. The historic industries were destroyed by globalisation but things seems to be recovering slowly.
In this bastion of working class Labour belief I have seen nothing that suggests a resurgence in political activism. But if I go to work full of young professionals 30-ish degree educated, raised in middle class families the Labour love is strong. They've all signed up to vote Corbyn in for a triumphal vindication of momentum politics. Go downstairs and speak to the man and boy union members on the shop floor, not a dickie bird of interest in the modern political activism. Wages, job security, health service, migration yes. Any other of the political crap Labour talks about is like water off a ducks back.
Now I speak only for my narrow locale, I don't know what's happening elsewhere in the UK but it feels to me that this "new political awakening" is a very metropolitan, middle class, educated update on student politics.
