A happy new year to all of you; I hope it is more pleasant than 2011. My resolution is to kick anyone who uses the word ‘chill’ to me in any context other than that referring directly to inclement weather or a touch of ague. Anyone who uses ‘chill’ in combination with the suffix ‘pill’ or ‘out’ will be kicked repeatedly.
Gloom, there may be around. But those dwindling few of us who support the Labour Party will have been heartened by Lord Glasman’s comments that the party is too elitist and must reconnect with its working class support. For sure, many of us have been arguing this for years, but none of us is an academic who has the ear of the Labour Party leader (who is himself, of course, high born and affluent).
My guess is that Glasman – who is almost always right, by my reckoning – has less influence with Miliband than is suggested. But whatever, the capture of Labour by the Stalinist metropolitan middle class is its biggest obstacle to being a) a potential party of government and b) likeable.
I don’t suppose Ed will take any notice of Glasman’s comments. There will still be marble-mouthed London monkeys parachuted into northern constituencies and the manifesto won’t change either.
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