@floppyplopper

I looked up her voting record, and she seems to be someone who almost always follows the party whip. Because a large fraction of her tenure as an MP was during the Corbyn leadership, that makes her look quite left-wing, but it doesn't give us many clues as to what she'd do if she were the one directing the party whips.

@floppyplopper

That's an interesting one. I certainly think the definitions of social class that are interesting for policy-making purposes are based on parental social class, not on current occupational class, but I think that might be orthogonal to the point you're making.

@only_ohm
no you're not getting it.

at a stroke when they redefine their core as working, rather than working class they exclude students, children, chronic sick, and retired.

then they salami-slice that working class down to their idealised stereotype of a working person, no part-timers, no hospitality sector, no self-employed, etc etc

then they ventriloquise that idea worker who is either a female nurse or a male working in a quarry and say they "don't want any of that woke nonsense"

then they end up with a political agenda no different to what the tories and reform are advancing.

the very moment a labour MP finds themselves unable to say the C word (class) don't wait to see if their politics will turn out to be better than any other labour MP who can't say the C word.