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"For the many, not the [reviled scapegoat minority]" has been *the* message of of UK politics for my entire lifetime. It is the main message of much of our press. It has been the explicit or implicit message of one or both of our major parties at any one time. Politicians...
... from both parties, including some of the anti-Corbyn darlings, from Tom Watson to Margaret Hodge, from David Blunkett to Ian Austin, have all dabbled in fairly explicit "For the many, not the [reviled scapegoat minority]". For the past five years we had a Labour Party...
... that as much as any party in my lifetime avoided "For the many, not the [reviled scapegoat minority]" politics. Indeed, a good proportion of the drip-drip of attacks against Labour were that Labour was "For the [reviled scapegoat minority], not the many". Indeed, at we're...
... being offered an ongoing post-election post-mortem featuring a bunch of pundits doing the 'Hodge-Watson' analysis, which amounts to "The party has to be seen to be on the side of the many, not the [reviled scapegoat minority]".
Whether it is gay people, single mothers,...
Whether it is gay people, single mothers,...
... ethnic minorities (including in quite explicit terms, Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities), trans people, Muslims (and there is deep indulgence of Islamophobic conspiratorial turns in our mainstream politics), "For the many, not the [reviled scapegoat minority]" is a...
... feature of mainstream public life, it is fairly explicitly what some are demanding of Labour to 'save' it from 'Corbynism', and you can see it all too clearly at this [cough] 'moment'.
