'Why does the Left patronize and sneer so much?'
Fundamentally because they have nothing else. The reason is that politics is about power and trying to win power from an existing ruling elite. The leadershiip of our left wing movements are mainly unlike the people whose side they claim they are on. Miliband and all the rest of the Oxbridge graduates and SPADs are nothing like the people they claim to represent. They are an Establishment metropolitan elite divorced from ordinary working people. That is why ordinary Labour voters think they are not on their side.
"Speaking about his recent visit to Mr Miliband’s seat, Mr Farage said: “The welcome I received was eye opening. No, not everybody told me they were going to vote for UKIP next year, but everybody told me they were utterly fed up with the Labour Party which they had always believed was supposed to be on their side.
“Not a single person had a good word for Ed Milliband, not as a man of course, but as a politician. Essentially, Labour is losing its heartlands.”
“The people of Doncaster, and a large swathe of Northern constituencies are utterly fed up with the seminar room, teenage politics of the modern Labour Party and they are increasingly turning to UKIP to provide a real alternative,” Mr Farage added."
www.thestar.co.uk/news/ukip-s-nigel-farage-says-party-can-oust-ed-miliband-and-win-doncaster-seats-1-6944560
The Labour elite, just like the Tory elite, but even more so, are divorced from the people. Gordon Brown's treatment of Mrs Duffy, whom he called "that bgoted woman" after she brought up immigration, shows how out of touch they are and even how the political class has disdain for ordinary people.
The left know they are out of touch, they know they are from Oxbridge, and that is why they cannot connect with the people and their only strategy is to scaremonger about the NHS or sneer at the people in the hope of dividing and ruling them. They have to appeal to all minorities and sneer at the majority because the Labour Oxbridge leadership are themselves a minority among the people they claim to represent.
Why are Simon Danczuk and John Mann not leadership candidates, why are 4 of the 6 talked about candidates from Oxbridge - BBC history documenatry types like Tristram Hunt - and the other two metropolitan elite types? Why no gritty Northerners like Danczuk and Mann?
The latest new trick they have I heard for the first time last night on Sky News and today from a BBC reporter - it is "pale, stale and male" - another attempt to denigrate and divide and rule, but that is all their think tanks have got, so my guess is we will hear them laughing about that for many years to come. But of course the people will not go along because Farage is "pale and male" but he certainly isn't "stale".
The Tories have been useless in that they have no confidence or belief in what they are and again that comes from their out of touch background from Eton etc where they also know that they are a minority among the people. Because of that, they have no anchor, no core belief, which is why Cameron embarked on modernisation and hoodie hugging , encouraged by former Etonians who work, as all our metropolitan elite now do, in charidees, the third sector and in their beloved Biig Society. But this election has taught them a lesson, they know that a huge portion of Tory voters dislike them but had no other choice, and they have now appointed a working class MP from Essex as their Deputy Chairman and it seems may have the guts to finally hit the metropolitan elite's BBC.
Labour called the people "nasty" and the no-confidence Tories called their own party, and by extension, its core vote, "nasty". That is how useless and out of touch both lots of Oxbridge graduates are.
They don't want real politics, they don't want a raucous PMQs, they don't want to really challenge each other and fight for ideas and ideals and ideologies because both sides have none - apart from serving the Establishment, and because both sides "are in it together". They want consensus, they want committees, they want Russel Brand to speak to them and give them the benefit of his "knowledge" and "advice" in Parliamentary committeesr in his kitchen, they want a circus, a show, a spin and a spectacle because that is the only way they know to appeal to the people.
But is shallowness, lack of fight, cosy consensus and lack of guts is exactly why politics has got real again and is appealing to real people again and is no longer just an Oxford Debating Society academic's game.
Farage is back, UKIP's NEC refused to accept his resignation, and Farage is quoted as saying "the fight is here". The SNP turned up in town today and they look like a formidable crew. Twenty year old Mhairi Black has more fight in her than the entire crew of Labour leadership candidates combined. She's not metropolitan, she's not Oxbridge, she's real and she will fight for real people. There won't be any consensus, the SNP and UKIP are up for the fight. God help Labour if they don't get it right.