The decline of the liberal left in the UK

[Black Orchid]

An interesting read. Britain is in turmoil.

The liberal Left now view white British workers as their enemy!

Andrew Twentyman makes the best pizza in Leigh in Greater Manchester. But he’s a working man who doesn’t like Jeremy Corbyn. And for that he had to be destroyed.

‘Can you imagine what state we’d be in if Jeremy Corbyn had been in charge of all this?’ the former Labour supporter told The Guardian newspaper on Wednesday, in the wake of Rishi Sunak’s coronavirus rescue package.

Within a few hours, reviews of his pizza parlour had to be suspended on TripAdvisor after it was flooded with malicious ‘one-star’ ratings.

‘Disappointing food and toxic, rude and racist management’ was a typical example of the benign Left’s ‘customer feedback’.

Still, Andrew should at least be grateful he’s not called Karen – the name that’s become a patronising social-media term for middle-aged women unaware of their ‘white privilege’.

‘How can white women not be Karens?’ the BBC asked recently in its No Country For Young Women podcast. The answer – provided by the programme’s guests – is apparently ‘Educate yourself. Read some books’, ‘Don’t be so loud’, ‘Accept whiteness is a privilege’ and ‘Leave’.

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And one of the most grotesquely blatant examples has been the attempt to neuter and sideline the trade unions, and replace them with pliant political groupies from organisations such as Momentum and the People’s Assembly.

As one trade union official said to me a few months ago: ‘I never thought I’d see the day when one of our members would stand up at Labour conference and plead for jobs to be a priority alongside the environment, and get booed.’

Why wouldn’t they be booed? They are the enemy now. Men and women who have been working all their lives and have the temerity to think they may have a more rounded grasp of life than the teenage Greta Thunberg. People who are grinding their way through the same type of dead-end job as their parents – if they’re lucky enough to have a job at all – but don’t feel like waking up every morning and checking their ‘white privilege’. Or parents and grandparents who dare to suggest that politicians might actually prioritise their daily struggles over the plight of the Palestinians.

To his credit, Sir Keir and his team recognise all this. But recognition may well not be enough. If he still feels the need to take a knee to those in his party who despise – not dismiss, but actively disdain – working people, he has no chance of securing power. Last week we saw how much the liberal Left despise the British working class. It will take a major effort to convince them not to reply in kind in four years’ time.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/arti ... nemy.html

[sprintcyclist]

Wow - this is my experience of the intolerant left

An interesting read. Britain is in turmoil.

The liberal Left now view white British workers as their enemy!

Andrew Twentyman makes the best pizza in Leigh in Greater Manchester. But he’s a working man who doesn’t like Jeremy Corbyn. And for that he had to be destroyed.

‘Can you imagine what state we’d be in if Jeremy Corbyn had been in charge of all this?’ the former Labour supporter told The Guardian newspaper on Wednesday, in the wake of Rishi Sunak’s coronavirus rescue package.

Within a few hours, reviews of his pizza parlour had to be suspended on TripAdvisor after it was flooded with malicious ‘one-star’ ratings.

‘Disappointing food and toxic, rude and racist management’ was a typical example of the benign Left’s ‘customer feedback’.

Still, Andrew should at least be grateful he’s not called Karen – the name that’s become a patronising social-media term for middle-aged women unaware of their ‘white privilege’.

‘How can white women not be Karens?’ the BBC asked recently in its No Country For Young Women podcast. The answer – provided by the programme’s guests – is apparently ‘Educate yourself. Read some books’, ‘Don’t be so loud’, ‘Accept whiteness is a privilege’ and ‘Leave’.

>snip<

And one of the most grotesquely blatant examples has been the attempt to neuter and sideline the trade unions, and replace them with pliant political groupies from organisations such as Momentum and the People’s Assembly.

As one trade union official said to me a few months ago: ‘I never thought I’d see the day when one of our members would stand up at Labour conference and plead for jobs to be a priority alongside the environment, and get booed.’

Why wouldn’t they be booed? They are the enemy now. Men and women who have been working all their lives and have the temerity to think they may have a more rounded grasp of life than the teenage Greta Thunberg. People who are grinding their way through the same type of dead-end job as their parents – if they’re lucky enough to have a job at all – but don’t feel like waking up every morning and checking their ‘white privilege’. Or parents and grandparents who dare to suggest that politicians might actually prioritise their daily struggles over the plight of the Palestinians.

To his credit, Sir Keir and his team recognise all this. But recognition may well not be enough. If he still feels the need to take a knee to those in his party who despise – not dismiss, but actively disdain – working people, he has no chance of securing power. Last week we saw how much the liberal Left despise the British working class. It will take a major effort to convince them not to reply in kind in four years’ time.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/arti ... nemy.html