I was at a Labour Party meeting a week or so ago and it was painfully apparent that some members just don't seem to get the problem of the 'disaffected heartlands'. I've been banging on about this for years.
Labour went all internationalist and got hung up on being nice to everyone and forgot that their support base were actually more interested in having a job, an affordable roof over their head and a local community. And increasingly the men and women in naice suits with a degree and two homes are not making that happen.
It's not just you. I know Labour activists that actually go out canvassing (that is how you separate the serious folk from fluffies) that have been banging their heads against a brick wall for years over this. No one listen to them because the truth is 'inconvenient'. Street after street in what should be solid Labour households, all saying they will vote UKIP.
I had to stop myself laughing the other day when one of the pro-Corbyn fluffies I know claimed that a repudiation of clause IV would bring UKIP voters back to Labour. That is how deluded some of these people are.
The Labour party as it is now is screwed without a wholesale sea-change in the way it thinks, operates and recruits. It could be done, but it is highly unlikely. You'd need a Bob Crow type: a pro-brexit hardnut who will focus on defending working people in Britain and not get side-lined by fashionable "global" issues.
Unfortunately, the party has been taken over by middle-class pseudo-radical internationalists of one type or another who've never been inside a council house.
That said, what's becoming rather awkward is that the Tories are now on their second female leader, and Labour has never had one. Kinda rubs Labour's nose in equality, that. 
And don't think people don't notice. One of the greatest failures of the left is the notion that the "right wing press" controls working class minds, as though they just sit there like sheep being pumped full of propaganda.
It doesn't and they don't. There is such a thing as the "British street", just like the "Arab street", and a lot of political opinion is informed through information passed through social networks of tradesman, nurses, GP receptionists, dinner ladies, drivers, landlords, shop owners, post-masters etc. They see things, talk to their mates and families, they talk to their mates and families, who talk to their neighbours, and word gets around really fast. Of course, the upper middle-classes never experience any of this, so they don't realise it exists, and Labour doesn't realise it exists either -- because so few of their members are plugged into these networks.
Labour thinks it lives in a different country to the one it actually does, and that's why it will struggle to win back those traditional votes.