They (Labour) were certainly successful in getting everyone to ignore the 10th Commandment. And also in presuming miners wished to remain miners forever and not go off and become tech billionaires or Hollywood film directors or something.
Perhaps it's actually more complicated than that. It's certainly interesting that in nowadays' politics, the world's most prominent fat cat tycoon describes miners and steelworkers as *our* miners and steelworkers, whereas his modern progressive opponent depicted them as "a basket of deplorables".
What did that man say years ago? The soft bigotry of low expectations.