Is Labour Still The Party For Working People?

[Egara_Flegin]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-30157335
Espcially as at least one of their MPs holds them in utter contempt.

[janbee]

I think Lab, like Con and Limp Dum, are out for themselves. They are all Brussels Boys through and through. There's not even a sliver of daylight between them. They have now all morphed into the one party. They don't give a rats for the working classes, despite ALL their blustering and reassurances on the subject.

[Gromit]

White van man, Mondeo Man, Essex Man, - whatever he is called, Parties need him to get themselves elected.

In Rochester, the Man rejected the Conservatives who he had voted for in 2010.

And a particularly dim MP shot the Labour Party in the foot by being contemptuous of it

[Egara_Flegin]

a very fair assessment janbee. I think the twitter incident represents a slippage of disguise, I imagine many MPs of all hues share her views but are not stupid enough to post it publicly.

[Old_Geezer]

They are still more interested in the working people's concerns than the other parties, in order to gather that vote; but I don't think they've really been on message since the Blair era. They've pushed so many awful aims, particularly anti civil liberty ones IIRC, that I lost a lot of faith in them and no longer hold much allegiance to any party, if I had any to begin with.

[Gromit]

And a particularly dim MP shot the Labour Party in the foot by being contemptuous of its target audience.

The man featured in the tweet is not really representative of the Working Class, so it is stupid to take this as an example of Labour rejecting the Eorking Class.

[Old_Geezer]

The twitter incident was blown out of all proportion and was more about good taste. More anti chav than than anti working class.

[mushroom25]

//Labour rejecting the working Class. //

they unintentionally showed their hand 4 years ago gromit.
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2010/apr/29/gordon-brown-gillian-duffy-bigot
I don't see much evidence of recent change.

[jno]

whereas Cameron thinks Ukip are full of fruitcakes, loonies and closet racists, so no utter contempt there, rightoh.

[Gromit]

Admittedly the Brown incident was a far more major gaffe. She had raise a legitimate concern about eastern European immigrants and Brown appeared not to understand that and then called her a bigot. It showed that Brown was out of touch, and arkward dealing with real people.

The tweet was different. The MP in question appeared snobby and was looking down on her victim. I agree with Old Geezer, it was more about bad taste than attacking the working class.

[Zacs-Master]

Quite a good piece here about the issue with all the current parties:
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/commentisfree/2014/nov/21/rochester-byelection-beliefs-of-ukip-voters

[tonyav]

No their not and haven't been since they put the word 'New' in front of Labour and put Tony Blair in charge.

[TTG]

"Is Labour still the party for the working people?" They have used that slogan for decades...and the North still falls for it.

[Baldric]

The 'North' still stare at Aeroplanes

[janbee]

Not since John Smith was Leader.

[tonyav]

Dead right, janbee.

[mikey4444]

I haven't looked at the other replies yet but the short answer is ...yes of course it is.

[woofgang]

I don't think it ever has been.

[mikey4444]

Really woofy ? What...never ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Labour_Party_(UK)

[-Talbot-]

Most politicians are in it for themselves.

[youngmafbog]

You seem to be on your own tgeir Mickey.
Whenare you going to wake up to reality? Read the 1st post, it summs it up totally.