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No More Blue Labour

Well, so much for Blue Labour: Blue Labour, the informal Labour policy group established by Ed Miliband advisor Maurice Glasman, is to be effectively disbanded. Ed West comments: Lord Glasman has since apologised for overstepping the mark in an email to Hodges, but it’s curious that, even if they were not prepared to go as […]

Well, so much for Blue Labour:

Blue Labour, the informal Labour policy group established by Ed Miliband advisor Maurice Glasman, is to be effectively disbanded.

Ed West comments:

Lord Glasman has since apologised for overstepping the mark in an email to Hodges, but it’s curious that, even if they were not prepared to go as far as him, not a single Labour figure as yet can be found to even criticise their party’s attachment to mass immigration. Yet, as I (and many others) have pointed out, mass immigration harms Labour’s traditional supporters the most. Note that Glasman is not hostile to elite migration, an altogether different thing; when Painter talks about “world-class universities” and “highly-qualified staff”, does he not realise that Britain exports more graduates than it imports, with an overall loss of roughly 200,000 people?

I suppose there was never much chance that Glasman’s ideas would be well-received, especially when it comes to immigration. After all, Gordon Brown’s contempt for Labour voters’ immigration concerns wasn’t something unique to him. It is a widely-shared contempt that members of political classes in much of the “Anglosphere” have.

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