Original post from January 2020: The Decay of the Labour Party
From the original post…
“The main reason for the decay of the Labour Party is its abandonment of left-wing economics… The party has effectively abandoned the working-class it was founded to represent in favour of a much more middle-class support… The trouble is that these newer Labour supporters feel guilty about how well they have done out of our current hypercapitalist system. To make themselves feel better, these newer Labour supporters have replaced concerns about concrete economic matters with nebulous phobias and isms which they have elevated to holy writ. It is far easier to rant about transgender toilets and Palestine that to tackle the deep-seated economic inequalities that continue to afflict the UK.”
I’ve been meaning to share this tweet by pollster Matt Goodwin for a while now but I got sidetracked into an epic two-part rant about my contempt for the ‘Wokeist’ religion (see Part One and Part Two). Here’s the tweet…
Goodwin uses this definition for “working-class jobs” (link to original tweet)…
Labour is no longer the party of working people but of one section of the UK Establishment.
Not only is the Labour Party no longer a workers’ party but I’m not even sure it’s a ‘left-wing’ party in any real sense ( I discussed this idea in some detail in This Is What I Believe Update)…
* It is not left-wing to support conservative religionists who have extraordinarily old-fashioned ideas about men and women, sexual minorities and unbelievers. It may even be rather right-wing.
* It is not left-wing to support the neoliberal, ‘gush up’ economics so beloved of international organisations run by inflation-obsessed technocrats. It may even be rather right-wing.
* It is not left-wing to sneer at the concerns of working-class people or belittle them as stupid, lazy or suffering from madeup ‘phobias’ and ‘isms.’ It may even be rather right-wing.
* It is not left-wing to support the hyper-individualism and narcissism inherent in identity politics nor to deny facts in favour of feelings. Whatever happened to ‘scientific socialism’? Denial of collective rights in favour of individual rights – sounds a bit right-wing to me.
Here’s a video of a discussion at Labour party HQ…
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