Leak reveals Labour plan to focus on flag and patriotism to win back voters

submitted by EthnocratArcheofuturist from self.debatealtright

The UK Labour party is going to go for fake nationalism - like the Tories - in order to win back white working class voters. I think it will fail. Denmark shows the only way forward for European social democrats is to adopt the immigration policies of the right-wing populists.

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https://www.google.be/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/politics/2021/feb/02/labour-urged-to-focus-on-flag-and-patriotism-to-win-voters-trust-leak-reveals

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[–]NeoRail 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (9 children)

Unlike the Tories, Labour is actually incapable of doing something like this. They have been playing the intersectional game for far too long, if they tried to pull such a sharp turn, even if only cynically, their youth groups and grifters like Momentum etc. would kick up a huge storm. If your party apparatus is ran by "post-colonial" radlib grifters, you can't just pull the tactical patriotism card. I would like to see them try, though.

[–]MarkimusNational Socialist 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (8 children)

Yeah the only people who still support labour are academia, journos, students etc of the upper middle class. All of these people would just go to libdem (their real party, being openly capitalist and progressive) as soon as Labour became 'backwards inbred racist fascists'

[–]NeoRail 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I am under the impression that there is still a sizeable contingent of boomers who continue to vote Labour, but only because they grew up with the idea that Labour is "the working man's party". Coincidentally, a lot of them were pro-Brexit, just like the old Labour party, so they switched over to the Tories for the last election. As far as I am aware, this demographic is becoming increasingly apolitical and/or disillusioned, though, so I am not sure if they will come back to Labour easily. The core supporters of Labour today appear to be, as you said, predominantly journalists, students and academics, with some old school trade unionists sprinkled in here and there who didn't get the memo.

[–]EthnocratArcheofuturist[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

academia, journos, students etc of the upper middle class

In France they call these cretins bobos which is a portmanteau word for "bourgeois bohemians".

[–]MarkimusNational Socialist 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

oh yeah i've been talking shit on bobos for a couple years, heard striker say it on the people's square

[–]literalotherkinNorm MacDonald Nationalism 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Peter Hitchens said it in a great little rant on British telly ages ago as well and it always makes me smile: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ht2wP7j-CgY

[–]MarkimusNational Socialist 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

unironically based peter hitchens

[–]EthnocratArcheofuturist[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Striker is a man of culture indeed.

[–]Courbeaux 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Working class people under 45 vote overwhelmingly for Labour if they vote at all. And Labour has expanded its middle class base since replacing ebil antisemite Corbyn with zionist Starmer.

[–]EthnocratArcheofuturist[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

if they vote at all

Most don't.

[–]casparvoneverecBig tiddy respecter 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I honestly think labor is better than tory. At least they're your open enemies rather than le based conservatives totally pwning libtard xd.

People really have to get out of this left/right election dynamic. Elections don't matter in the anglosphere because of two party systems. And parties are pointless without a support structure to hold them.

[–]EthnocratArcheofuturist[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Exactly.