Thursday, June 2, 2011

Guy Standing on the voice of the emerging precariat.

No time to blog today. But I highly reccomend you read this piece from CiF, it is very interesting, and Guy Standing hits the nail on the head when it comes to the failings of the left in western Europe to renew itself (with a particular distaste for the Blue Labour Mouvement which Milliband seems to such a fan of) beyond looking to the past.

 A new progressive agenda, like all those throughout history, must be class-based, however it is packaged. It must look forward, not be atavistic. It must be egalitarian at its core and respond to the emerging class. The faddish "Blue Labour" openly looks back and rejects all this.