Thread by @nickreeves9876

Deindustrialisation has shattered the class politics that dominated the last century. The Tories have taken full advantage, returning to the corrupt politics of 18th century oligarchy. The opposition needs a new political road map. Me in @SussexBylines
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The end of class politics resulting from deindustrialisation is by far the most important political development of our times. The Tories in their cynical way have rapidly adapted to it. The opposition, especially Labour, are still struggling to grasp what has happened.

By destroying much of the social base of the Labour movement deindustrialisation has opened up much of the working class to the bogus promise of social solidarity offered by right-wing nationalism.

Both the working and middle classes have collapsed as coherent political forces. Tory politics is now that of a tiny kleptocratic elite composed of some of the super-rich and their political and journalistic hirelings cynically manipulating a confused and fragmented mass.

The Tory system of misrule by a kleptocratic clique harbours a weakness. The opposition needs to portray them as they really are - a self-serving clique that has separated itself from the rest of society to become an alien parasitic entity manipulating and exploiting the people.

The Brexit right persuaded many folk that they were oppressed by the 'liberal metropolitan elite'. But unless an elite can contain around half the population, there is no such thing. The real alien minority is the Tory kleptocratic elite composed of perhaps a few thousand persons

I am not talking about rekindling the class war. I'm talking about re-imagining politics as a struggle between the people and a tiny parasitic clique which has detached itself from the society it exploits.