The reason Labour have switched from class based to identity based politics is Socialism lost the class argument after the 70s and 80s. The working class voted Tory in the 80s. They voted for Brexit. They vote Tory now.
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Als antwoord op @BBCPropaganda @JonMarcStanley
Labour in the 70s where racist at the bottom. Old "working men's clubs" were full of it and Labour MPs had to cater for that. Thatcher's liberalism was about the individual, not collectivist identity. Blair had to adopt it. Labour discovered minority groups and went after those
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Blair encouraged mass migration, which created target demographic blocks for Labour to pray on. They need those blocks to have victim status to win votes. They adapted the old class messaging.
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Als antwoord op @BBCPropaganda @JonMarcStanley
There ARE a lot of poor black people out there. And Muslims, who are poor for cultural reasons (the women don't work and the kids grow up in poverty). But people from those races can also excel in our liberal British non-identity obsessed society
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Als antwoord op @BBCPropaganda @JonMarcStanley
Rishi is non-white. Priti is non-white. Thatcher was a woman. British voters don't care anymore. Underclass fringes like Corbynists or EDL might, but they are Labour cast-offs. Liberal Thatcherism was about individual aspiration, not collective identity. THAT is modern Britain.
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Thing is many do care. Underclass is part of us.
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Als antwoord op @JonMarcStanley
The underclass always need to be helped up, whatever their identity, not kicked down and called names. You'll end up losing the whole working class with them. It is the opposite of aspirational. It is elitist snobbery. It's the rich kicking down the poor to keep class privilege
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Als antwoord op @BBCPropaganda @JonMarcStanley
The people who need a kicking are the elites who won't accept equality and meritocracy, because they are creating the underclass. They are often white, but so are the underclass. We are a majority white country, but we stopped caring about that in the 80s
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We need to lift ourselves up, don;t wait for them to change heart.
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We need to stop telling people they are victims and charity cases and show them how anybody can work to lift themselves up. "Black people are victims" isn't about race, it's about protecting class divisions. All lives matter, Poor people shouldn't blame skin colour for being poor
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But accept that people have lost, acknowledge they have lost much and we need to rebuild together.
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