So much wrong with this thinking.
The left thinks race is a social “construct” (sic) and doesn’t exist, but that racism and black people nonetheless somehow do. It thinks there’s such a thing as black culture but no such thing as an indigenous Briton. It thinks there’s a Sikh vote. It thinks a man can become a woman by saying so.
So what is this mysterious “working class” nowadays, and how is it anyway the Labour Party’s base? To the extent it still has one the latter is merely bureaucrats, scientists, technicians, trade-union organizers, publicity experts, sociologists, teachers, journalists, and professional politicians – everyone Orwell identified as belonging to the Inner Party of Nineteen Eighty-Four. And that’s not a base; that’s an echo chamber.
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Brendan O'Leary
2 years ago
“working class base” …?
Sue Ward
2 years ago
Time to accept that labour doesn’t have – or apparently even want – a “working class base”.
Well, Labour is the party of the Teacher’s Union, and they seemingly wanted full lockdown of the schools for a year and a half. (are teachers Working Class now days? Does being part of a militant Union make one Working Class in modern definitions, Like say Tube Train drivers? Who make very middle class pay, but do something which I guess is traditionally working class, although in modern times I am not sure why.
Ian Howard
2 years ago
Why do Commentators keep insisting that Labour has a working class base of voters?
So much wrong with this thinking.
The left thinks race is a social “construct” (sic) and doesn’t exist, but that racism and black people nonetheless somehow do. It thinks there’s such a thing as black culture but no such thing as an indigenous Briton. It thinks there’s a Sikh vote. It thinks a man can become a woman by saying so.
So what is this mysterious “working class” nowadays, and how is it anyway the Labour Party’s base? To the extent it still has one the latter is merely bureaucrats, scientists, technicians, trade-union organizers, publicity experts, sociologists, teachers, journalists, and professional politicians – everyone Orwell identified as belonging to the Inner Party of Nineteen Eighty-Four. And that’s not a base; that’s an echo chamber.
“working class base” …?
Time to accept that labour doesn’t have – or apparently even want – a “working class base”.
This is not news. See Paul Embery, Despised. Why the modern Left loathes the working class. https://www.waterstones.com/book/despised/paul-embery/9781509539994
Well, Labour is the party of the Teacher’s Union, and they seemingly wanted full lockdown of the schools for a year and a half. (are teachers Working Class now days? Does being part of a militant Union make one Working Class in modern definitions, Like say Tube Train drivers? Who make very middle class pay, but do something which I guess is traditionally working class, although in modern times I am not sure why.
Why do Commentators keep insisting that Labour has a working class base of voters?
Because it still does! Look at the electoral map. Why do so many commentators indulge in so much either-or, yes/no, right /wrong type arguments?
Tip: the Labour Party does not have a working class base.