..............  Working-class Aussies are abandoning the ALP in droves over the party’s obsession with “woke” issues like gender, race and climate change.

Working-class Australians — the very foundation of the Labor Party — are abandoning the ALP in droves because they think the party has been overrun by “woke ideals” and “white-collar university educated yuppies”.

Private research commissioned by the NSW Electrical Trades Union – which was itself just taken over by the Left this week – has found a quarter of union members surveyed no longer vote Labor and a further 35 per cent reported decreasing support for the party.

Incredibly, almost one in five said

the Liberal party better represented working people.

The document, exclusively obtained by news.com.au, confirms what many in the party have been quietly warning about for years – that among blue-collar voters Labor is perceived as elitist and out of touch, pandering to inner-city interests that drive their traditional base away.

The research was commissioned by the NSW ETU – before its left-wing takeover – and conducted by a firm called Redbridge that is run by former Victorian assistant ALP secretary Kos Samaras.

It found an astonishing number of blue-collar workers – proud union members no less – are abandoning the party because of its perceived preoccupation with fringe issues that have no relevance to them.        ...............

..........  They stopped listening to the working class, aka 'deplorables' years ago, when the 'deplorables' delivered repeated Howard victories.  They are listening only to the ABC and the Granuiad.

Go Woke, go broke.          .........