Tag Archives for general election 2017
Does age now trump class in British politics?
After higher youth turnout in the 2017 general election Labour has to think hard about whether fairness is about class or cohort Labour’s surprise success in June’s election, gaining 32 seats and winning 40 per cent of the popular vote, has quickly been absorbed within a new narrative about the rise of youth. Before the election, the conventional wisdom was … Continue reading
The proletariat problem: general election 2017 and the class politics of Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn
The election continued the swing of working-class voters to the Conservative Party – but also the more important trend of working-class disengagement from politics. Can Labour respond without succumbing to populism? The general election was peculiar for a large number of reasons. One of those reasons, relatively overlooked to date, is that – amid some stunning victories in affluent areas … Continue reading
The strange still-birth of ‘Milimayism’
Britain just can’t generate the politics with which to build the new reformist consensus its political economy so badly needs A key problem for Britain at the moment is that it can’t give birth to the politics that its political economy needs. Marxists used to think this was impossible, believing that the sub-structure (political economy) would always determine the super-structure … Continue reading →
11 September 2017 by Tony Payne
Categories: SPERI Comment | Tags: Brexit, centre ground, Conservatives, ed miliband, general election 2017, Labour, Theresa May | Leave a comment