it seems to me there is a massive shift in class structures and class identities, & one reason right wing populism works is because they're exploiting it more effectively - but I don't have the real data & I'm curious what's out there 1/
"working class" no longer means factory work, but largely construction, & above all maintenance, and care work. "Middle class" means administrative & professional (including a lot of bullshit job territory.) So class resentment is increasingly vs professional-managerial 2/
the prof-mans are seen as obsessed with rules, laws, regulation... they are stuffy bureaucrats, whether in the public or private sector, who get in the way of you doing your job. The Parliamentary struggle over Brexit became a perfect metaphor for this. 3/
I actually saw this happening at the time & tweeted about it, that BJ/Cumming's trick was to win by losing, to force Corbyn to ally with the legalistic Remainers trying to block the popular will, the guys who are about form v content & who thus stack the system in their favour 4/
when I wrote this, I got a private message from a higher-up in the Corbyn camp saying "yes this is exactly what they are trying to do to us. Identify us with the legalistic establishment so they'll seem the popular insurgents. Please write about this." But no media'd touch it 5/
this is why Trump, BJ with his phoney chaotic persona, have popular appeal: they're the exact opposite of the legalistic rule bound administrator upstairs who drives you crazy at your job,& they managed to manoeuvre Corbyn into seeming like he could be that guy 6/
what I'm interested in is the class basis. Obv nurses, teachers, the front-line workers in the new care economy, didn't vote for BJ but remain LP. What about school or hospital administrators? The higher ups no doubt Tory but the mid-range ones who actually drive you crazy? 7/
what are the core class constituents of each party in terms of the fundamental class opposition emerging in the care-giving economy & what class segments are up for grabs? I'm not a sociologist. I don't have the data. 8/
