The Labour Party
has forgotten that it's also the 100th anniversary of working class men getting
the vote, all of them. In 2018 Labour is saying that the fight for women's
equality still goes on, but has a problem saying that the fight for class
equality must continue too.
Yet ironically today's Labour Party, under a
pro-Brexit, left-wing leadership, has no problem getting liberal middle class
support. It's the (white) working class (who are often pro-Brexit) that Labour
is still struggling to reconnect with. Without them Labour won't win the next
General Election.
Unless Labour can somehow rediscover its class credentials throughout Britain without alienating the metropolitan middle class, the Tories
will win again. This requires being progressive on tax and social justice,
tough on getting British workers into employment and reducing immigration, and
asserting a UK identity that’s inclusive in terms of class as well as gender,
sexuality and ethnicity.
Addressing this subject now could bring
back some of the badly needed white working class voters who didn’t back Labour
at the 2017 General Election, despite Jeremy Corbyn having long been a Brexiteer.
They've also forgotten the working class women who had to wait another ten years!
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