"There are now Labour activists and polemicists who treat politics as if it were a board game, hanging on to the theories of dead Russians, and dealing in abstractions. Their rationale for maligning much of the party's supposed base, I am told by some horrified Labour insiders, is to excise a whole chunk of the post-industrial working class from left politics, leave it to Farage and his friends, and install 'networked youth' as the new vanguard of the revolution. Where any such manoeuvre would leave Labour's supposed mission to double down on inequality and the UK's regional imbalances is anyone's guess."
John Harris at The Guardian worries that anti-Brexiteers "threaten to pump the left full of one of the worst prejudices of all: snobbery."
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