He is still in LP (I think) but has written for spiked and swimming in that pool. Writes for that unherd too which was started by tim montgomery (since left) and regularly features douglas murray. Not company I'd keep or expect any trade unionist to keep but there we are, maybe I'm not independent of mind enough.
Spoke at Labour Brexit fringe meeting
As this bit from a (subbed) documentary on the Chilean student movement shows, he's parroting the weasely language used by the dictatorship to cover its policy of education commodification and social stratification.
yeah - he even goes on to say this in his article:
He's not talking about African cultural security there, or an internationalist working class cultural identity, is he? If he is he needs to take a lot more care to not parrot far right slogans.
traditional heartlands? metropolitan? look we all know what he means, and the target audience definitely do
I agree it isn't a palatable politics. I just don't think he means white. I think he means a working class that doesn't exist any more. If it ever did really, more his idea of what the working class was. I dunno, I'm doing a shit job of finding the words here and tbh what's the point cos I think he's a knob
He's trying to express a class based anti-elitism through identity politics. It's going to be heavily tied to his own cultural experience rather than class experience and he ends up romanticising and inventing it and its enemy. He's a grown up trying to centre class- he should damn well know better.
I agree, and I was late to the party of seeing he was a knob also.
See I wish I could have just said this
It’s usually safer to just wait for BA to post eh
Well that’s a bit more bloody overt like
Please tell me this is a lie.
That’s really fucking upsetting. My grannie appears to have bought The Beat’s “Stand Down Margaret Thatcher” on vinyl, which we only discovered after she died and I went online searching for the weird cover that I used to always pick out and ask her to play, and my auntie who we thought was the culprit confirmed “nah that wasn’t mine”
That’s really fucking upsetting. My grannie appears to have bought The Beat’s “Stand Down Margaret Thatcher” on vinyl, which we only discovered after she died and I went online searching for the weird cover that I used to always pick out and ask her to play, and my auntie who we thought was the culprit confirmed “nah that wasn’t mine”
There, balance restored
I don’t suppose he was, soul has Toryism in it’s history look at the Godfather Brown, he was well conservative and used to stick his hand in the air indicating the number of tenners he was docking a band member’s wages by if they made a mistake. The peedie shite!Maybe he was pranking them? Hot Chocolate kind of passed me by. I was listening to Culture Club at the time.
Not sure what’s ugly about valuing work , family and community .
Dunno but without work there is no working class
