Welcome to Modern Britain. A divided nation where families
and friends tear each other apart due to one issue... Brexit. The story of the
have nots, the ignored and the left behind asking for a change from the status
quo. University towns vs former Industrial
towns, North vs South, London vs Grimsby, England vs Scotland.
This is a story that has been greatly misunderstood by
individuals from across the political spectrum. This is the case with the
public support for the Brexit Party, a political party that was only several
weeks old that won the European elections in May.
The main question that is always asked is why working-class
people back the Brexit Party? It's not simple. Yes, people feel abandoned by
the mainstream parties, and that is easy to see. UKIP was the only renown party that entirely
backed leave, there was a gap in the market. Many of the politicians that
dominate the Brexit Party are far from being working class, the majority of
Brexit Party MEP's are either business people or aristocrats. This relationship
is rather similar to what the former Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli had
towards the working class. An Alliance of the working class and the aristocracy
against the "Liberal Metropolitan Middle Class."
The left within Britain focuses too much on identity
politics. Idiotic statements by individuals such as David Lammy who accused
Stacy Dooley of perpetuating “tired and unhelpful stereotypes” about Africa.
Paint the left in a negative light. Statements like these push working people
away from the left. I conclude that most
forms of Intersectionality act as a Trojan Horse. We should always pursue equality;
however, Intersectionality has also harmed many working-class men. If you are
both white and working class, you are less likely to do well in school and get
a good and well-paid job. There are also issues with the rise of male suicide
in recent years. I guess what I am saying stand up for everyone's rights, don't
just ignore groups of people who you believe to privileged.
Many Eurosceptics on the left talk about the idea of a
traditional working-class vs a Metropolitan Middle Class based around London.
This rhetoric is rather misleading, different people face different problems
across the country, many working-class people in cities like London suffer from
different issues than working class people in towns like Barnsley. Any new mass working-class movement must take
these issues into account. There is no traditional working class, what the working-class
changes with the times. How many coal miners are there now? Like it or not we
have a multicultural working class this includes Somali plumbers from London
and white call centre operatives in Rotherham. We must remember that we are an
extremely regionalised country when it comes to what the working class is.
Working class people face discrimination in all aspects of
society, from education to lobbying politicians. How many working-class people
are journalists? The majority of our Members of Parliament come from relatively
wealthy backgrounds and many Middle-Class MP's are implanted in Working Class
areas that are safe seats for the mainstream parties take the MP for Don Valley
Caroline Flint for example. Blair placed Flint who was from Twickenham in a
constituency that has been Labour since 1922.
We need more working-class representation in parliament by MP's that
have historic ties to the local areas. We need to tackle class discrimination
when it comes to education as well, private tuition education must be
abolished. Private education enforces the class system of which we live under.
Many working-class communities across the country feel
outright ignored by society. Many of
these areas voted overwhelmingly to leave the EU. Blackpool like most seaside towns has been in
decline for decades voted by 67% to leave the European Union and Bolsover like
most former Industrial and coal mining areas voted by 71% to leave the European
Union. You will see the reverse in large University Towns and London. There has
been an enormous geographical split in England and Wales between the areas have
seen economic growth that areas have not seen the same economic growth.
We should rethink our approach to these regions. Many of these communities still today have a
radical left-wing tradition. In 68% leave Rotherham, where the battle of
Orgreave took place in 1984, voted overwhelmingly for the Brexit Party in the
2019 European Elections. The Labour
Party like with Scotland is taking people for granted. Is a Party dominated by Fabien Society and
various pro-European Groups representative of its impoverished voter base in
these parts of the country?
When Labour was founded by Kier Hardie in 1900. It was a
union between Middle-Class Academics in the Fabien Society, Liberal Trade
Unionists and Marxist Social Democratic Federation. The Labour Party was a union between the radical Middle Class and the Working-Class mass movement. I
do hope most individuals on the left remember this going forward. We must try
to listen and represent many left behind working-class communities across the
country. For the same very reason, the
Labour Party is called the Labour Party. Labour was the party intended to
represent and protect workers from all backgrounds. It is something that we
need to remember if we truly want to defeat the Brexit Party.
