Thread by @nickreeves9876

Deindustrialisation has shattered the class politics that dominated the last century. Labour's working class support base has crumbled, the middle class is hopelessly fragmented. The opposition urgently needs a new politics of cooperation and compromise.
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We often look at politics in terms of policies and personalities. But very occasionally the economic and social foundations of politics undergo a tectonic shift which radically and irreversibly changes the political landscape. Deindustrialisation is causing just such a shift.

For nearly 100 years British politics was broadly built around the class struggle. It was taken for granted that the main electoral battles were for the centre ground occupied by the skilled working class and lower middle class. That epoch has ended and won't return.

We have to understand that Labour's working-class support base has all but collapsed, and that many working-class folk are now prey to the bogus promise of security & community offered by nationalism, and that a fractured middle class will not naturally coalesce around one party.