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I think a lot of Leavers did vote Labour in the past. They used to vote against Conservative policies that benefit the rich, by voting for Labour.
This very long campaign of anti EU and anti immigrant news has pushed these voters into being Leavers. They now vote for Reform. They actively vote for people who will make them poorer. They are voting to make their lives worse.
They vote this way because they think it makes other people's lives worse. Immigrants. Minorities. EU. Woke people. Climate nancies.
Most don't even understand they are voting against themselves. They vote for hate to make themselves feel powerful.
There were undoubtedly some Leavers who voted Labour, but the idea that it was Labour's 'core' or 'traditional' voters turning against them is largely untrue. The more working class or blue collar Leavers were mostly people who rarely/never voted consistently at all, or they were blue collar Conservatives, who have always made up a significant chunk of the working class but never really voted Labour.
So, they sort of 'look like' a concept of traditional Labour voters, but the actual people were not Labour voters. Ironically, the actual Labour Leavers looked a lot more like Jeremy Corbyn: the old-school, often middle-class Bennites!