Friday, February 21, 2025

"Focused on Protecting Blue-Collar Communities from the Depredations of Free-Market Capitalism"

"A post-industrial cleavage both cultural and economic was never just about the case for and against leaving the European Union. At its most basic, the blue-collar leave vote expressed a desire for rupture with a globalised capitalism that had undermined the power and agency of the western working class. It also reflected a latent perception that compassionate 'one world' social liberalism coexisted happily with a callous economic version; one that had stripped people and places of dignity, status and self-esteem."

Julian Coman at The Guardian calls for British politics to turn toward Blue Labour.

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