Despised

Why the Modern Left Loathes the Working Class

Paul Embery (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

216 Seiten

2020
Polity Press (Verlag)
978-1-5095-3998-7 (ISBN)

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The typical contemporary Labour MP is almost certain to be a university-educated Europhile who is more comfortable in the leafy enclaves of north London than the party’s historic heartlands. As a result, Labour has become radically out of step with the culture and values of working-class Britain. Drawing on his background as a firefighter and trade unionist from Dagenham, Paul Embery argues that this disconnect has been inevitable since the Left political establishment swallowed a poisonous brew of economic and social liberalism. They have come to despise traditional working-class values of patriotism, family and faith and instead embraced globalisation, rapid demographic change and a toxic, divisive brand of identity politics. Embery contends that the Left can only revive if it speaks once again to the priorities of working-class people by combining socialist economics with the cultural politics of belonging, place and community.

No one who wants to really understand why our politics has become so dysfunctional and what the Left can do to fix it can afford to miss this authentic, insightful and passionate book.

Paul Embery is a firefighter, trade union activist and prominent proponent of Blue Labour. He is a regular columnist for UnHerd.

Acknowledgements Introduction

Notes

1 The Gathering Storm

The rise of the cultural revolutionaries

Nowhere else to go?

The Brexit revolt

Liberals versus the masses

Notes

2 We Need to Talk About Immigration

A community fragments

The far-right takes advantage

Pressure on wages: time for an honest discussion

Going backwards on productivity

The myth of a prejudiced Britain

It’s not just the economy, stupid

Notes

3 A New National Religion: Liberal Wokedom

The dead end of identity politics

Whiteness as original sin

Competing priorities

Why multiculturalism has failed

The gender identity madness

Free speech imperilled

The tyranny of the woke slacktivists

Debasing our language

The tightening grip of the law

Politicians run for cover

The presumption of guilt

The intolerance of the ‘tolerant’

Notes

4 The Case for the Nation State

Democracy devalued

Globalisation meets resistance

Turning the tide: challenging the power of global capitalism

Understanding the patriotism of the working classes

A meaningful citizenship

England forgotten: a tale of national dispossession

Notes

5 What is to Be Done?

Looking and sounding like Labour again

A radical economic policy

The importance of vocation

Promoting social stability and solidarity

Climbing the mountain

Notes

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	15.01.2021
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	142 x 218 mm
Gewicht	431 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-5095-3998-0 / 1509539980
ISBN-13	978-1-5095-3998-7 / 9781509539987
Zustand	Neuware