Matthew Goodwin.....

[nino_savatte]

Might join Musk on a submarine outing?

Maybe both of them can join a cage fight, but the cage has to be a shark cage and they have to fight a great white shark that's been locked inside with them.

 

[hitmouse]

Excellent takedown of Goodwin by Kenan Malik.

He’s right to draw the contrast with Liu’s analysis of the PMC: which highlights many of the same things that Goodwin does but understands the ‘new elite’ as a block to genuinely transformative politics and a group who have “abandoned class politics for what she calls “performative transgression”. And where Goodwin argues that the “radical woke” capture of society lies at “the roots of today’s more turbulent politics”, Liu understands that the new elite is the product, not the cause, of political turbulence, the consequence of the evisceration of mass movements for social change.”

This obsession with a ‘new elite’ hides the real roots of power | Kenan Malik

The picture that Matthew Goodwin paints of modern Britain’s ‘ruling class’ shows a weak understanding of how and where influence works

www.theguardian.com

Very belatedly catching up with this thread, that article is indeed good but it does make me wonder if Malik's ever done a public reckoning with his old Spiked/RCP mates, seeing as they tend to make all the same errors that he rightly criticises Goodwin for?

 

[Smokeandsteam]

Very belatedly catching up with this thread, that article is indeed good but it does make me wonder if Malik's ever done a public reckoning with his old Spiked/RCP mates, seeing as they tend to make all the same errors that he rightly criticises Goodwin for?

No. Not as far as I’m aware he hasn’t.

But, in his writing, the gulf is readily evident. Whilst there is a similar criticism of the consequences and manner in which identity politics obscures social realities and actual political power the conclusions drawn are sharply different.

 

[Lurdan]

Twitter link to Richard Bartholemew's tweet (for those who haven't used up their ration of tweet views)

Spoiler: Text of tweets

Richard Bartholomew @Barthsnotes quotes a tweet by Matthew Goodwin and says:
Mid-life crisis: man in his 40s buys a big microphone and addresses the nation from his shed urging people to join his new community.

[Matt Goodwin @GoodwinMJ • 4h
A revolution is sweeping through Britain and I think millions of ordinary people have had enough of it.
[Matthew Goodwins then embeds a video of himself at home speaking into an ostentatiously large microphone]

Here's the text of Goodwin's speechlet.

A revolution is sweeping through Britain. What do I mean by that?

I'm talking about mass uncontrolled immigration. I'm talking about the fact that we can't even control our own borders. I'm talking about a stifling, political correctness, which has left so many of us feeling that we can't really say what we really think. I'm talking about a political economy which is completely broken. We no longer really own anything. We no longer really make anything. And we no longer prioritise British workers. I'm talking about what we're teaching our children in schools about race, sex, and gender. Exposing them to ideas which often have no serious basis in science. I'm talking about the fact that Britain now has some of the highest rates of family breakdown in the Western world. And nobody seems to care.

Why is this happening? It's happening because the people who run Britain no longer care about the rest of Britain. They're reshaping the country, they're reshaping its institutions, around a small university educated minority who simply don't share the values and the concerns of the rest of the country. They also look down on the rest of the country. I know that because I've been in rooms with them. I've been a university professor for more than 20 years. I know how this new elite think and feel and what they believe. And I've become convinced that millions of people out there think the same as me. They're utterly fed up with the status quo. And they thought over the last ten years that they were going to get something different.

So what I've been doing is building a community of people who believe that we can change this, and who are serious about changing it, and who want to put a plan in place to do exactly that. If you're interested, join us and let me just say there's a lot more to come.

Why am I getting a flashback of 'David Icke: The Green Party Years'.

 

[Dystopiary]

which has left so many of us feeling that we can't really say what we really think.

and let me just say there's a lot more to come

Grifter bingo.

 

[Lurdan]

From Goodwin's Address to the Nation:

Goodwin is 41.

From wikipedia:

Goodwin graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree with first-class honours in politics and contemporary history from the University of Salford in 2003 (...) Goodwin was Associate Professor of Politics at the University of Nottingham from 2010 to 2015 (...) Since 2015, he has been Professor of Politics in the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Kent.

(pointed out by multiple twitter users).

 

[Lurdan]

Twitter link

Spoiler: Text of tweet

Sim I Am @simeonadams
@GoodwinMJ
[Image of psychiatrist speaking to Matthew Goodwin]
These “New Elites”... are they in the room with us now, Matthew..?
11:17 PM ¦ Jul 4,2023 ¦ 374 Views

 

[nino_savatte]

Goodwin's just itching to use the phrase 'cultural Marxism' and tell us how it's 'infected' even the Tory Party. However, I'd like to see some actual evidence for his claim that "almost all of our politicians lean to the 'cultural left' than most voters". I suspect he probably has some confected statistics somewhere that he could deploy.

 

[brogdale]

Goodwin's just itching to use the phrase 'cultural Marxism' and tell us how it's 'infected' even the Tory Party. However, I'd like to see some actual evidence for his claim that "almost all of our politicians lean to the 'cultural left' than most voters". I suspect he probably has some confected statistics somewhere that he could deploy.
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He's such a Man of the (white) People

 

[Smokeandsteam]

Goodwin's just itching to use the phrase 'cultural Marxism' and tell us how it's 'infected' even the Tory Party. However, I'd like to see some actual evidence for his claim that "almost all of our politicians lean to the 'cultural left' than most voters". I suspect he probably has some confected statistics somewhere that he could deploy.

He does.

The recent PTO podcast on the new right commentariat "The anti-woke grift" with Aurelian Mondon was good on how Goodwin and others have recognised the financial and media prominence value of working in the intellectual space of insurgent right politics. Goodwin's own earlier work directly contradicts the position he now adopts. As such , even he doesn't beleive the ideas he now espouses.

 

[Lurdan]

Claims to have 17,000 subscribers

 

[nino_savatte]

He does.

The recent PTO podcast on the new right commentariat "The anti-woke grift" with Aurelian Mondon was good on how Goodwin and others have recognised the financial and media prominence value of working in the intellectual space of insurgent right politics. Goodwin's own earlier work directly contradicts the position he now adopts. As such , even he doesn't beleive the ideas he now espouses.

Well, I don't suppose Frank Furedi is long for this world, and Goodwin is likely his anointed successor.

 

[nino_savatte]

He's such a Man of the (white) People

He's also been a university professor for over 20 years.

 

[DotCommunist]

review of his new buke

Values, Voice and Virtue: The New British Politics ⁠–⁠ review

In Values, Voice and Virtue: The New British Politics, Matthew Goodwin claims that recent upheavals in British society (like Brexit) have emerged in response to the rise of a liberalised, globalise…

blogs.lse.ac.uk

 

[Nylock]

"It's the economy, professor Goodwin". Nice subtle dig there at the end

 

[The39thStep]

Ha,hah

 

[brogdale]

Ha,hah

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Good to see this thread bumped back. Must admit that since I've left twatter I'd forgotten what a turd Goodwin is.

 

[Dogsauce]

He’s doing paid ads on Twitter for anti-immigration stuff. I wonder which tax-averse billionaire is funding this divide-and-rule bullshit? Is it the Tufton mob again?

Rent rises are 100% the fault of landlords, absolutely fuck all to do with immigration.

 

[Dom Traynor]

He’s doing paid ads on Twitter for anti-immigration stuff. I wonder which tax-averse billionaire is funding this divide-and-rule bullshit? Is it the Tufton mob again?

Rent rises are 100% the fault of landlords, absolutely fuck all to do with immigration.

Speaking as an immigrant myself I wouldn't say that immigration has fuck all to do with market driven rent rises but absolutely it's landlords who need to be prevented from taking advantage of a housing shortage, through rent controls and compulsory purchase orders

 

[Dom Traynor]

Any Goodwin is totally a well groomed Brand, an utter scammer.

 

[nino_savatte]

Good to see this thread bumped back. Must admit that since I've left twatter I'd forgotten what a turd Goodwin is.

The cunt blocked me after I questioned his use of stats.

 

[Jeff Robinson]

See how far right Goodwin has become...

 

[Smokeandsteam]

See how far right Goodwin has become...

What's been fascinating watching Goodwin is his purported decision to go beyond the grift and to seemingly offer up his (paid, naturally) services as some sort of co-ordinator for the populist right. Whilst it's clearly driving numbers to his Substack and YouTube it's an odd one as presumably he could achieve the same result with his 'I'm a professor' and the populist right are correct act. Odd.

 

[nino_savatte]

The University of Kent has announced further cuts to academic staff and the closure of some courses. What's the betting that the execrable Goodwin isn't among the numbers of staff who are being targeted for redundancy?

 

[Rimbaud]

From Goodwin's Address to the Nation:

Goodwin is 41.

From wikipedia:


(pointed out by multiple twitter users).

That he has spent his entire adult life in academia and is now going on about woke university educated elites reeks of projection and some sort of mental self-flagellation going on tbh.

It's just like Spiked, a bunch of posh London media types who live in a bubble of posh London media types, holding up some idealised yet patronising form of working class or "ordinary people" to attack a caricature in their heads of left wingers as "posh London media types who are patronising to ordinary working class people."

In reality neither left wingers nor "ordinary people" conform to their caricature of them.

 

[nino_savatte]

Hold the back page! The sage-scryer hath spoken through the medium of GB "News"!

Matt Goodwin says new GB News People’s Poll data puts Reform above the Tories in terms of vote share, but believes the number of seats they will be rewarded with will renew calls for a change in electoral system.

The new poll puts Labour comfortably ahead with 36 per cent of the vote, with Reform following at 20 per cent.

The Tories have less votes than Nigel Farage’s insurgent party with just 16 per cent of the share, according to the poll.

"Less votes?" Fewer votes, surely?

Matt Goodwin predicts number of seats for Reform as shock poll puts them above Tories

The new poll puts Labour comfortably ahead

www.gbnews.com

 

[brogdale]

Hold the back page! The sage-scryer hath spoken through the medium of GB "News"!

"Less votes?" Fewer votes, surely?

Matt Goodwin predicts number of seats for Reform as shock poll puts them above Tories

The new poll puts Labour comfortably ahead

www.gbnews.com

chortles...

 

[Jeff Robinson]

Nazi boy Goodwin in full gaslighting, reality inverting mode here, where he presents criticising the actual violence that Trump has unleashed in the US as the "real violence".

The HATE behind the bullet. It's not just the right that needs to cool down --it's the radicalised LEFT

Thoughts on the attempted assassination of Donald Trump

www.mattgoodwin.org

 

[brogdale]

Warwick Hunt

 

[Lurdan]

Warwick Hunt

Classic.

Also classic:
Goodwin then admits his trifling error, pays tribute to Times journalist Andrew Norfolk who he promotes to being a "renegade and HERO" ('like wot I am')
does some revised "research" and doubles down.

Spoiler: Long racist propaganda piece by this cunt

Today, a number of prominent journalists criticised my suggestion that the UK media class has failed to sufficiently cover the rape gangs scandal, which will go down as one of the biggest scandals in our history

So, I decided to take a closer look at the data.

Trust me, you'll want to read until the end

First, the boring bit. How did I do it?

I used something called Lexis, a database researchers use to search content across UK newspapers

Every good researcher out there knows how to use it so they can duplicate my work and check

One of my critics today said my use of "grooming gangs" in my initial numbers was misleading because much of the coverage in UK newspapers uses "grooming gang" not "gangS".

OK then, let's use that

And let's just look at articles that are specifically about this scandal and don't just mention it in passing

What did I find?

Let's look at the years 2011-2025 because before that, even though the rape gangs scandal goes back decades, there was NOTHING in UK media.

Nothing.

They didn't touch it AT ALL --despite widespread rumours pushed by groups like the BNP and EDL

2011 is a crucial year because it's when renegade and HERO Andrew Norfolk, at The Times, started to write the first early pieces, despite abuse & harassment

First, let's look at ALL UK newspapers

In 2011-2025 there were 4,659 articles specifically focused on the "grooming gang" phenomenon

Wow

Sounds a lot right?

Remember the number.

"Grooming gang" = 4,659

But now let's compare that with how much coverage the media class gave to other scandals and terms

"white privilege" = 6,146

"anti-Muslim" = 17,152

"post office" and "horizon" =20,274

"extreme right" = 21,252

"Islamophobia" = 23,461

"Greta Thunberg" = 22,717

"expenses scandal" =25,585

"Stephen Lawrence" = 29,808

"anti-racism" = 34,484

"Windrush" = 35,515

"George Floyd" = 38,824

"Black Lives Matter" = 59,338

"Grenfell" = 71,422

"Britain" and "racism" = 75,693

"Net Zero" = 141,367

"far right" = 231,540

"racism" = 382,069

I could go on.

I think the numbers speak for themselves.

Relative to other scandals and amid a strong liberal bias in parts of the media class, the mass rape of young, working-class white girls & women just wasn't a priority

Yes, there were newspapers that broke the story and pushed it, like the Times in 2011

But even there, the 440 articles built around "grooming gang" between 2011-2025 is dwarfed by, say, the 2,868 on "Islamophobia", the 3,202 on Stephen Lawrence, the 2,603 on George Floyd, or the 5,524 on BLM

My point is not to bash individual newspapers but to say that relative to other race-related stories and debates, the rape gangs scandal --ARGUABLY THE BIGGEST SCANDAL IN OUR HISTORY-- has received very little coverage from the media class

I'd give you the numbers for liberal progressive papers like The Guardian/Observer but frankly they're absurd

Oh ok then

Between 2011 and 2025 the Guardian had 113 articles on the grooming gang phenomenon compared to 3,325 for "Islamophobia"

What about the BBC?

We can look at BBC News 24 and BBC Radio 4

There were 357 specific mentions of the "grooming gang" scandal in BBC News/Radio 4 transcripts

Meanwhile, there were 7,537 for "George Floyd", 3,219 for "Stephen Lawrence", 7,416 for "Black Lives Matter", and 2,259 for "Islamophobia"

You get the picture. I won't keep going

But what I will say is this.

These girls were never a priority in Media Land

Relative to other scandals they were at first ignored and then downplayed

Too many of the middle-class, Oxbridge-educated, socially liberal if not radically woke progressive elites who control the parameters of what they think is our national "debate" routinely steer clear of scandals and issues that violate tightly-controlled taboos around immigration, multiculturalism, "diversity" in all its forms, and which are backed up with alarmist narratives about the "far right" and "Islamophobia" to warn others off from asking difficult questions or challenging the elite consensus in Westminster and London

This HAS to change

As I wrote in my Substack this morning, @elonmusk
has done Britain a favour by forcing us to reckon with a truly NATIONAL scandal that has for too long been ignored and pushed to the side by political, media, and cultural elites in wider society

This past week, we have been pushed into a new era in which millions of people up and down this country are either learning about the rape gangs crisis for the first time or hearing shocking new details they did not know before and can scarcely believe

And millions of people are now asking some enormous questions. How did our country let this happen to our children? Why was it overlooked? Why did so many people stay silent? Is it still happening today? What can we do to stop it? Who is pursuing the truth in media? Who is naming and shaming? And why does the UK media class fall over itself when a single American man dies in Minneapolis while seemingly not giving a shit about the thousands of CHILDREN who have been abused, raped and harassed here in Britain?

The people have tuned into this scandal, in other words. They have taken notice and they are watching. The only question now is whether the media class has bothered to notice and will actually get on top of this scandal and push it to front of the agenda or continue to ask ridiculous questions like it did for much of today, deflecting from its glaring failures to instead obsess about Elon Musk.

Find the truth and tell us the truth.

That's your job.

Goodwin has published two editorials (so far) this week about "The scandal that SHAMES Britain and makes me angrier than I've ever been", and discussed it on his YouTube channel.

(And he's not alone - Claire Fox, Frank Furedi, Brendan O'Neill and I'm sure many other members of the 'intellectual wing' of the right wing commentariat have all jumped on the issue).