Sound familiar?
The working-class revolt against Labour
The local elections confirm that working people are sick of Labour’s sneering.
The mass working-class defection to the Conservative Party; the colonisation of Labour by middle-class graduates; the transformation of Labour from a party of working people into a metropolitan machine more concerned with gender-neutral toilets and taking the knee than with what working-class people want and need
Yesterday’s revolutionaries had to serve an apprenticeship of danger, poverty and hardship that at least gave them a sense of what it felt like to be oppressed. They couldn’t afford special diets, sanitized reading, obsessively changed masks or products expunged of every possible offensive connotation. They would have shopped at the dollar store, not the boutique organic outlet.