Memo to David Aaronovitch: we’re not all metrosexual now

Still inside that bubble, David Aaronovitch informs us that, regardless of the election result, we are all of a metrosexual mindset, whatever that is. Like it or not, the country as a whole is becoming ‘more like’ London. This was written in response to the slings and arrows flung at Labour for neglecting its northern, English, working-class base – something I’ve been banging on about for at least fifteen years (and perhaps until now to no avail whatsoever).

I think David ought to shift his fat arse and get out a bit more. There has always been a deep resistance to and suspicion of the identity politics and race-obsession of the white London middle class. This does not mean that people beyond David’s bubble are racist or homophobic, simply that they do not buy into the hysterically patrolled shibboleths of this pious, virtue-signalling, minority. And last week’s election results suggested that beyond the capital the country is becoming more, not less, averse to it.
But a rare moment of sanity from the left. The excellent Suzanne Moore, writing in The Grauniad, seems as perplexed by the left’s response to the election as most normal, non-leftie liberal, people were.