Not any more, I would suggest the hard core now are the long term unemployed, and those from areas that lost their main industries for example coal mining and steel. The low paid. The comfortably off who feel they have to prove they have a social conscience 'the Islington and Hackney type's though Workers with aspirations to do better are closer to the conservatives these days, although they were comfortable with Blair's version, the lurch back to the left worried them.