The political economy and cultural politics of the newly aligned left-managerial-graduate-liberal parties mutually reinforce each other. Student politics attracts...students, who want to pay for the privilege of 3 years of gender studies off the back of the labouring poor.
Once you're in this doom-loop, difficult to break out. Any move towards a pro-working class political economy - i.e. one not rooted in endless subsidies for the self-pitying bourgeois wokeists - will be resisted nearly as bitterly as a move towards a pro-w/c cultural policy
Even *New Labour* had better priorities - i.e. Sure Start/early years, not free HE. Post-Brown Labour policy has largely been about hand-outs to the middle-class public sector management class & their children, green-haired berks stinking out middling Russell Group universities
Someone in my class position benefited far more from New Labour than Eddy M-Corbyn bribery of the NHS HR diversity consultant class. Something like EMA far more likely to allow me to get to university in the first place than fees repayable in the very long run were to put me off
The dawning reality of the new left class alliance (one that does not include the actual, you know, working class) is that it is becoming like the Lib Dems during the Charlie Kennedy era: middle class welfare. All without having the numbers to ever win an election
