Jon WorthThis is quite funny
You can almost hear the cogs beginning to turn in a few minds in the Labour Party
“You mean the white working class aren’t the inward looking borderline racists we’ve been acting like they are since 2016?” 🤯
Martin Schröder 🇺🇳
cyocum
Patrick H. Lauke@jon nah...they'll conclude that they're not "reform light" enough. must double down on making the "tough choices" that they think will bring the gammons to their yard
xirah
Jörg Wunderlich-PfeifferInertia is a thing, but at some point it stops to matter.
AnneH
Simon Waldman@jon Even if they are (and some probably are, given Reform's performance), why would the inward looking borderline racists ever vote Labour rather than Reform?
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markus
HakeemGWait are you suggesting that the Brexit vote wasn't correlated with racism and bigotry? I can assure you that was a huge part of it.
@HakeemG No. I’m not saying that. I’m saying that bigotry did not simply fit the UK class structure.
Not sure I understand this comment?
“You mean the white working class aren’t the inward looking borderline racists we’ve been acting like they are since 2016?”
gehsteiger@jon
Give people liveable wages and affordable housing and they will give a shit about right wing parties. But to accomplish this you'd have to upset all the companies and rich people whose money you need.
Give people liveable wages and affordable housing and they will give a shit about right wing parties. But to accomplish this you'd have to upset all the companies and rich people whose money you need.
Sharpe!@jon "But senior figures in No 10 and in Labour HQ have since defended Ridley and said she should not be made a scapegoat for what are expected to be very difficult results for Labour in the May local elections, especially in Scotland and Wales."
Why, one might ask, are they expecting "difficult results"?
muddle@jon I'm reminded of a short clip in an Adam Curtis (I think it was) documentary where a black-and-white woman with a clipboard is surveying people on the street and her comments to the camera are basically about putting the person just being interviewed into a particular social class based on their general appearance. It reminds me that that whole "focus group"-based politicking never really moved away from being inherently class-based. We just have different labels and granularity these days but it all still feeds into what is essentially a caste system. It's almost as if the idea of genuine interiority is beyond these people.