Special report by PEOPLE’S WORLD
THURSDAY’S general election proved to be the second referendum that middle-class progressives have been demanding for the past three years.
And the result could not have been clearer. For all we have been told that “they didn’t know what they were voting for,” it transpires that working Britain did, in fact, know what they were voting for — and they have just voted for it again.
Rather than show regret or humility, Labour’s largely middle-class membership is continuing in the same vein — berating the working class who have swung to the Tories as stupid, ignorant, racist or otherwise being gullible enough to fall for Tory propaganda.
Former Labour MP LAURA SMITH makes the case for The Many slate in the elections to Your Party’s new executive
All the areas that cause working people to feel insecure have to be addressed, through a return to unashamedly pro-worker politics, if the horror of a Farage government is to be avoided, writes IAN LAVERY MP
Deep disillusionment with the Westminster cross-party consensus means rupture with the status quo is on the cards – bringing not only opportunities but also dangers, says NICK WRIGHT
The Gala’s core message of working-class solidarity offers renewed hope and provides the antidote to the anti-worker policies of Reform UK, argues IAN LAVERY MP


