Labour party values,do they still class themselves as the working class party ?
No, they can’t get away with playing the class card anymore. Society isn’t as sharply defined as it was at one time by class. We are virtually all working class, and the arrival of new money has made it more difficult for them to play the ‘toff’ card. They wouldn’t dare criticise the Beckhams, for example. In fact, New Labour positively sucks up to them. Moreover, every Tom, Dick or Harriet these days can be a Dame or a Lord. Accordingly, having ditched the old enemy out of necessity, they have invented a new one. White middle England, particularly the male. This is the new enemy, and its victims are all the various disadvantaged groups that Labour have invented as an excuse to attack it. The disabled, the poor, ethnics, gays, drug addicts, immigrants, women (except militant feminists) to name but a few. The minority groups created by Labour are being used as a tyranny against the majority to bring about a new social order, aided and abetted by feminism. Instead of the ‘hard left’, we
No. New Labour is now a centre right party pandering to middle class concerns and prejudices. There is very little ideological differences between Brown’s and Blair’s reinvention of the Labour Party and Cameron’s Conservatives. To paraphrase Milton Friedman – they are all Thatcherites now. It is time the trade union movement woke up to the fact that Brown and New Labour, especially in the light of Brown’s remarks about trade unions at the G8 Summit, are biting the hand that feeds them financially. Trade Union members should demand that their union stop financing New Labour. It is well beyond time for the working class to create a new working class party that takes in the realities of life in the C21st and represents their true interests, not the interests of a few professional politicians for whom party loyalty means nothing.
The Labour Party divorced itself from its ‘grass roots;That being representing the poor,ordinary working class about 1980!When they realised people had done really well out of the Conservatives! And their supporters were now living in private housing instead of Council Housing!So to court Middle England Peter Mendolson and others hit on the plan to woo Ford Mondeo man!This meant leaving the poor pensioner who are now 1/3 worse off than under the Conservatives and one parent family behind to concentrate on the ethnic minorities and protest fringe parties!If they say they are representing the working class they are telling lies!For example there are 10millionaires on their benches!
