www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/video/2022/oct/31/the-town-where-brexit-died-but-hope-survives-video
Interviewer: Who how do you feel about [Brexit and the election] now? Fisherman: Well, I won't vote for anybody.
That is why the people who caused this win again and again. There's only one other party that can credibly form a government, and when they refuse to speak the truth the problem will just get worse without any political will to fix it.
Then again: "They're all the same" isn't true either. Brexit and all those other problems are not natural disasters. They are the result of deliberate political choices, both by the electorate and the people in charge. Some parties and their policies are a better choice than others.
People are often resistant to change, but when your town is run down because the industry that you depended on has gone then it's either change or die and the problem was that they were too eager to listen to liars like Farage and Johnson that claimed that the fishing industry would come back than to face reality and embrace something else. They had the opportunity to be a key centre for offshore wind energy, but they were looking at the past instead of the future.
It's a struggle for all Northern towns because no Tory government is ever going to fund them unless their votes are for sale (and even then, not by anywhere near what the town needs), but do you know who would have funded the town's development? The EU. With no political skin in the game and an intention of just improving the economies of all members the EU would have funded Grimsby's development, but they didn't want that. They wanted the fishing industry back and now they have nothing.