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Ed Miliband paraded himself yesterday as the champion of the “middle classes” — mere days after voting for a severe Tory welfare cap on the poor and the sick.
The Labour leader declared in liberal newspaper The Independent that the middle class is being “hollowed out” under an assault from government policies.
But he omitted to mention the working class.
Meanwhile, incoming PM Andy Burnham dithers over who should be his Chancellor
Young Communist League general secretary GEORGINA ANDREWS says the far right are filling a vacuum created by Labour’s abandonment of working-class interests — we have to give our class a better offer
Our economic system is broken – and unless we break with the government’s obsession with short-termist private profit, things are destined to get worse, warns Mercedes Villalba