As always you speak a lot of common sense Paul. I’m not Labour, never have been and never will be but I have a lot of time for you. Both Labour and Conservative parties have embraced globalisation so much ( Starmer even articulating that he prefers Davos over the UK) that our once great country is being systematically squeezed beyond all recognition.
It’s time our government put the indigenous people at the front of the queue instead of the far away people taking priority.
Labour is toast, so many ridiculous people and daft Marxist/pro-China policies. Every generation needs to see what Labour is really about; a mass of silly people believing their nonsense led by even sillier MPs believing in idiotic, suicidal policies handed to them by China, which laughs behind closed doors at the self destruction of Britain as any sort of force in the world. Britain is weaker now than 80 years ago after WW2.
In much the same way that I can't see traditional conservatives ever forgiving the Tory party for their rank betrayal over the past several decades, I cannot see traditional Labour voters ever falling back in line either. Too may have realised that the types who run the labour party simply despise them, and they're quite happy to give that back in return. Good riddance to both the main parties in my view, not a moment too soon.
I like Maurice Glasman and your goodself you're both conviction political people who always come across as balanced and fair when on GB News or podcasts.
The problem that Blue Labour has is that you lack the organisational independence of Reform and the broad appeal necessary for success at the election at a time when Reform's appeal is rising exponentially.
When Jeremy Corbyn was leader the then shadow cabinet were nicknamed in some circles as "the north London mafia " .
As you know I have utter contempt for all of our current political class (including reform) , the problem the current Labour government have is that they hold the electorate that don't aggre with them with utter utter contempt, also they lie , the hypocrisy:
In opposition keir starmer challenged rishi on wfa , paraphrase (video exsists)
"Will the pm confirm that he is not planning to cut the wfa to fill his 48 billion pund black hole "
Then in office, cuts wfa with alleged 22 billion black hole .
Then Lucy Powell and keir starmer on rape gangs , invoking the far right and dog whistle, had it been white men raping black children or Muslim children and in mainly tory councils I guarantee the response would be difference.
Unfortunately our parliament has become the most powerful kindergarten in the world.
I wish you all the best Paul , your are facing a big challenge.
Ps another point could be , mps should stop lying as these days it takes 10 mins to catch them out .
Pps message to blue Labour, the electorate are not stupid, I see similar patterns to labour strategy to remainers after brexit
"They didn't understand what they were voting for "
Until Labour stop being anti-white, commission a full rape gang enquiry, stop two tier policing and justice, stop calling anyone who disagrees “far right” stop attending the WEF AND dump it and also stop stupid net zero, they are toast. They also favour illegal immigrants and immigrants who haven’t integrated over us. Labour is against the indigenous population and causing us pain.
4 MPs in a sea of woke Labour officials and activists will do absolutely ZERO!
Get the 4 MPs to join the SDP, and shift the new political alignment (which is happening in the UK) so that traditional Labour go to the SDP and traditional Tories go to Reform...That's the only way we can have a proper reset, and escape the woke-globalists ?
They should all switch. It would the death of woke Labour. And it would be a delight to see. It would hoover up the entirety of the red wall. Party politics as we know it is over.
It' a bit like religions claiming exclusive rights over the bleeding obvious, 'Thou Shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal' etc. Basic commonsense doesn't belong to any party or religion. There was once a transport cafe called the 'Bacon & Egg'. Another cafe opened up down the road called the Egg & Bacon'. The owner of 'Bacon and Egg' tried to sue the owner of the second cafe. In court the magistrate opened up with 'I hope neither of you believes you have rights over the words 'bacon' and 'egg'. But the 1st cafe owner won a 'copying' case over the 2nd on style and colours of his shop front, not the words.
I would like to see Blue Labour split away from the trans-loving, blue-haired wokerati Labour and then thump Starmer into the ground. Too much snooty champagne socialism has passed since Blair made it fashionable for the Labour Party to ever recover in its current guise. The entire cabinet needs to go if the working class is ever to be won back. Rayner herself seems to hate the working class, seemingly because she's now rubbing shoulders with the up market lot. Blue Labour- Reform coalition would look good. Meanwhile Two Tier thought it would be a good idea to two tier up NI rates for Indian workers at Indian companies in the UK. Bravo Keir. So when you say Labour has done "next to" nothing in the economy and immigration, I'd argue they've done quite a lot, but sadly in the wrong direction. Add to that the Stasi police that monitor your thoughts and there is simply no way back. We must never ever forget that Two Tier put a mother in jail for a tweet that incited absolutely nothing when trans nutters call for JK to be burned at the stake and for women to be hung and not a single arrest is made. I will never vote for Labour until it goes back to pre-Blair times.
As long term libertarian left and labour I reluctantly voted reform and will do again. That is until I see the likes of Stella Creasey and Tulip Sadiq (the Hackney and Hampstead middle class tribunes joining the Lib Dem’s. Hopefully all the one globe Tories will join with them. Maybe blue labour will dominate and labour could once again be a party of the workers, strivers and taxpayers, the decent instead of deranged activists. If not then blue labour ( and you Paul) need to join up with Reform and turn it away from the Trump/Thatcher axis towards decency and contribution. As it stands they’ll be used as window dressing by the globalist China aligned Neo Labour.
Regardless of what scheme they may espouse now, be it blue, pink, green or any other colour of the rainbow, virtually no one will believe it or even be willing to risk wasting a vote only to be betrayed again.
Starmer and his pathetic front bench have seen to that… in all my decades on this spinning rock, I’ve never seen such a bunch of incompetent lightweight politicians.
Quite frankly, I’m disgusted that my taxes are being wasted on, amongst other useless blackholes, their salaries!
Yes a well deserved look at Blue Labour... up here in Liverpool it can only appeal to people fed up with poor housing and services made worse by huge influx of ( young male) people from countries where women are not always equal citizens... and fed up with being written off as ' racist' or ' protectionist' when you express concerns. Dan Carden seems to understand this... that people want more community and shared values, not less.
Ed Miliband got Maurice into the House of Lords and he liked the concept of Blue Labour. Maurice subsequently fell out with Ed when he criticised Ed's leadership as lacking Stategy and Narrative.
Great article again Paul - have you ever considered applying to be a Labour candidate? We urgently need thinkers like yourself with robust ideas and policies.
As to the Blue Labour group and its philosophy, I'm supportive of its aims although the word 'blue' is an odd choice as it's associated with the Conservatives. I'm all for a left-wing social-democratic
economic agenda, but I wouldn't say I was opposed to social progressiveness in totality.
I do agree that immigration needs to be properly managed and controlled. 'Open borders' is not the humanitarian concept its advocates claim, but an exploitation of desperate people which hammers down workers in the UK. And I also agree that the trans-gender ideology is an insanity (one that, hopefully, society is now rejecting). Trans-ideology is, for me, nothing to do with the equality agenda, but just something which some have wrongly attached to the equality agenda.
I do fully support and agree with the true equality advances that have been made as a society and I wouldn't want us to go back to where our society was before these various steps forward in true equality.
Anyway, excellent article and please consider applying to be a candidate.
As always you speak a lot of common sense Paul. I’m not Labour, never have been and never will be but I have a lot of time for you. Both Labour and Conservative parties have embraced globalisation so much ( Starmer even articulating that he prefers Davos over the UK) that our once great country is being systematically squeezed beyond all recognition.
It’s time our government put the indigenous people at the front of the queue instead of the far away people taking priority.
Labour is toast, so many ridiculous people and daft Marxist/pro-China policies. Every generation needs to see what Labour is really about; a mass of silly people believing their nonsense led by even sillier MPs believing in idiotic, suicidal policies handed to them by China, which laughs behind closed doors at the self destruction of Britain as any sort of force in the world. Britain is weaker now than 80 years ago after WW2.
In much the same way that I can't see traditional conservatives ever forgiving the Tory party for their rank betrayal over the past several decades, I cannot see traditional Labour voters ever falling back in line either. Too may have realised that the types who run the labour party simply despise them, and they're quite happy to give that back in return. Good riddance to both the main parties in my view, not a moment too soon.
I like Maurice Glasman and your goodself you're both conviction political people who always come across as balanced and fair when on GB News or podcasts.
The problem that Blue Labour has is that you lack the organisational independence of Reform and the broad appeal necessary for success at the election at a time when Reform's appeal is rising exponentially.
Hi Paul 👋
When Jeremy Corbyn was leader the then shadow cabinet were nicknamed in some circles as "the north London mafia " .
As you know I have utter contempt for all of our current political class (including reform) , the problem the current Labour government have is that they hold the electorate that don't aggre with them with utter utter contempt, also they lie , the hypocrisy:
In opposition keir starmer challenged rishi on wfa , paraphrase (video exsists)
"Will the pm confirm that he is not planning to cut the wfa to fill his 48 billion pund black hole "
Then in office, cuts wfa with alleged 22 billion black hole .
Then Lucy Powell and keir starmer on rape gangs , invoking the far right and dog whistle, had it been white men raping black children or Muslim children and in mainly tory councils I guarantee the response would be difference.
Unfortunately our parliament has become the most powerful kindergarten in the world.
I wish you all the best Paul , your are facing a big challenge.
Ps another point could be , mps should stop lying as these days it takes 10 mins to catch them out .
Pps message to blue Labour, the electorate are not stupid, I see similar patterns to labour strategy to remainers after brexit
"They didn't understand what they were voting for "
"The belived Russian misinformation "
Oh and the old classic
"They are racist "
Until Labour stop being anti-white, commission a full rape gang enquiry, stop two tier policing and justice, stop calling anyone who disagrees “far right” stop attending the WEF AND dump it and also stop stupid net zero, they are toast. They also favour illegal immigrants and immigrants who haven’t integrated over us. Labour is against the indigenous population and causing us pain.
4 MPs in a sea of woke Labour officials and activists will do absolutely ZERO!
Get the 4 MPs to join the SDP, and shift the new political alignment (which is happening in the UK) so that traditional Labour go to the SDP and traditional Tories go to Reform...That's the only way we can have a proper reset, and escape the woke-globalists ?
I can't see blue Labour out reforming Reform but I can see some of their MP's switching sides to Reform.
They should all switch. It would the death of woke Labour. And it would be a delight to see. It would hoover up the entirety of the red wall. Party politics as we know it is over.
Hmmm...
So Blue Labour stands for "family, community and nation" Paul. I wonder where your mates nicked that from? Can't you even be original?
Reform's strapline is "Family. Community. Country."
To be fair, Pamela, Blue Labour has been saying it for 15 years.
It has been the SDPs slogan on "all" its literature for the past 5 years !
It' a bit like religions claiming exclusive rights over the bleeding obvious, 'Thou Shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal' etc. Basic commonsense doesn't belong to any party or religion. There was once a transport cafe called the 'Bacon & Egg'. Another cafe opened up down the road called the Egg & Bacon'. The owner of 'Bacon and Egg' tried to sue the owner of the second cafe. In court the magistrate opened up with 'I hope neither of you believes you have rights over the words 'bacon' and 'egg'. But the 1st cafe owner won a 'copying' case over the 2nd on style and colours of his shop front, not the words.
That was stolen from the SDP just over a month ago !
Absolutely
I would like to see Blue Labour split away from the trans-loving, blue-haired wokerati Labour and then thump Starmer into the ground. Too much snooty champagne socialism has passed since Blair made it fashionable for the Labour Party to ever recover in its current guise. The entire cabinet needs to go if the working class is ever to be won back. Rayner herself seems to hate the working class, seemingly because she's now rubbing shoulders with the up market lot. Blue Labour- Reform coalition would look good. Meanwhile Two Tier thought it would be a good idea to two tier up NI rates for Indian workers at Indian companies in the UK. Bravo Keir. So when you say Labour has done "next to" nothing in the economy and immigration, I'd argue they've done quite a lot, but sadly in the wrong direction. Add to that the Stasi police that monitor your thoughts and there is simply no way back. We must never ever forget that Two Tier put a mother in jail for a tweet that incited absolutely nothing when trans nutters call for JK to be burned at the stake and for women to be hung and not a single arrest is made. I will never vote for Labour until it goes back to pre-Blair times.
As long term libertarian left and labour I reluctantly voted reform and will do again. That is until I see the likes of Stella Creasey and Tulip Sadiq (the Hackney and Hampstead middle class tribunes joining the Lib Dem’s. Hopefully all the one globe Tories will join with them. Maybe blue labour will dominate and labour could once again be a party of the workers, strivers and taxpayers, the decent instead of deranged activists. If not then blue labour ( and you Paul) need to join up with Reform and turn it away from the Trump/Thatcher axis towards decency and contribution. As it stands they’ll be used as window dressing by the globalist China aligned Neo Labour.
Don't be reluctant to vote Reform. Let's give them a chance. They won't be worse than the two clown parties we normally have e.
Too little to late Paul.
Regardless of what scheme they may espouse now, be it blue, pink, green or any other colour of the rainbow, virtually no one will believe it or even be willing to risk wasting a vote only to be betrayed again.
Starmer and his pathetic front bench have seen to that… in all my decades on this spinning rock, I’ve never seen such a bunch of incompetent lightweight politicians.
Quite frankly, I’m disgusted that my taxes are being wasted on, amongst other useless blackholes, their salaries!
The uniparty in all its iterations are kaput!
Yes a well deserved look at Blue Labour... up here in Liverpool it can only appeal to people fed up with poor housing and services made worse by huge influx of ( young male) people from countries where women are not always equal citizens... and fed up with being written off as ' racist' or ' protectionist' when you express concerns. Dan Carden seems to understand this... that people want more community and shared values, not less.
Good article as normal Paul. I've some doubts about Lord Glasman however. Wasn't he closely associated with Crazy Ed Moribund?
Ed Miliband got Maurice into the House of Lords and he liked the concept of Blue Labour. Maurice subsequently fell out with Ed when he criticised Ed's leadership as lacking Stategy and Narrative.
Exactly. Very worrying.
Great article again Paul - have you ever considered applying to be a Labour candidate? We urgently need thinkers like yourself with robust ideas and policies.
As to the Blue Labour group and its philosophy, I'm supportive of its aims although the word 'blue' is an odd choice as it's associated with the Conservatives. I'm all for a left-wing social-democratic
economic agenda, but I wouldn't say I was opposed to social progressiveness in totality.
I do agree that immigration needs to be properly managed and controlled. 'Open borders' is not the humanitarian concept its advocates claim, but an exploitation of desperate people which hammers down workers in the UK. And I also agree that the trans-gender ideology is an insanity (one that, hopefully, society is now rejecting). Trans-ideology is, for me, nothing to do with the equality agenda, but just something which some have wrongly attached to the equality agenda.
I do fully support and agree with the true equality advances that have been made as a society and I wouldn't want us to go back to where our society was before these various steps forward in true equality.
Anyway, excellent article and please consider applying to be a candidate.