@Green Sleeves more seriously, what would you contend are the class politics priorities today? For working class - and indeed middle class outside the upper end - my own view is interests are:
- jobs that allow a decent living
- accessible housing, ideally not requiring becoming a vassal of the state
- access to functional services
- decent education opps for the sprogs, which doesn't mean woo woo bullshit and curricula not suited to the real world
- safe streets
- a bit more nebulous perhaps, but to live in a thriving community
It seems to me that the politics of the left today actively work against these things. At best they do so and propose more tax / borrowing to apply sticking plasters to the wounds they have incurred. As money runs out that will stop too.
Do you think I am wrong on the above list? If I am not then I just don't think it's tenable to:
- pursue bourgeois preoccupations from open borders to hyper social liberalism, which bomb the foundations of those items
- gouge workers to pay for palliatives to the damage done to them
- rob our children's future with yet more borrowing
... And call that worker politics.
Nor is guiding people onto a welfare drip and gouging workers to dope them into docile dependence. Nor is gouging workers to support the (relatively) generous conditions of the state bureaucracy.
I don't think I am alone in this view which is why all across Europe the left is now the party of anxious graduate students, well heeled retirees, public sector management and the various grievance groups they can cultivate by pitting the plebs against each other.
I state the last not to troll but as a reminder where we are and drag us back to the initial point : what are working class politics now, and how tf are they represented by omnicause placard waves like Zack Polanski or Carla Denyer? Feck me they are like characters out something parodying this caste (not that you get such anti establishment stuff these days).
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