Regroup Labour s internationalists!
Author: Editorial
Every now and then on Twitter, users will post about their distress at being diagnosed with a terrible illness. The replies to these posts are almost always full of people making “helpful” suggestions: to forego meals and subsist off fistfuls of turmeric; to subscribe to expensive and miraculous yoga courses; homeopathy.
The illnesses are very real; but the remedies often tell you a lot more about the people proposing them than about how to get well again.
It is the same with the Labour Party’s famous disconnection from the working class, or at least from a large portion of it. When advertising agency Republic Communications delivered a report (which has since been leaked) to Keir Starmer and other Labour bigwigs saying that Labour has trouble connecting with voters in its “foundation seats”, that it is perceived as being the voice of well-to-do, university-educated people living in cities, or that under Starmer it