Tuesday, January 04, 2011
The Blairite mantra posted by Richard Seymour
Keep huddling around the collapsing centre-ground:
Thus Tessa Jowell, whose way of life is more akin to those of the spivs who've just destroyed the global economy than that of the 'middle' she is assiduously courting. These people really have no idea how hated they are. Anyway, as this is nothing more than a regurgitation of a piece written by Peter Kellner, a Blairite married to Lady Ashton, here's one I prepared earlier.
Class has never been less relevant to how people vote. We are a culturally more cohesive society than we have ever been. From Ikea to Ryanair to X Factor, our way of life is converging...
Thus Tessa Jowell, whose way of life is more akin to those of the spivs who've just destroyed the global economy than that of the 'middle' she is assiduously courting. These people really have no idea how hated they are. Anyway, as this is nothing more than a regurgitation of a piece written by Peter Kellner, a Blairite married to Lady Ashton, here's one I prepared earlier.
Labels: berlusconi, blairites, class, elections, finance capital, middle class, neoliberalism, new labour, psephology, ruling class, spivs, working class
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