16th century depiction of former chancellor Simon Sudbury getting his head cut off in the peasants revolt. Just a bit of banter 👍

“For someone looking for a budget pair of headphones, these are great”

Budget - they’re 150 quid you knobend

This is what the capitalists want to hear, not the hack and slash of Truss

The professional class are a safe pair of hands compared to the public school boys of tory

For me this is what’s won em the election and got the city, rags and industry backing em

That twat Khalid Mahmood is out in Birmingham

Good

wehavecomeforyourprivateschools:

Starmer may be the son of a toolmaker, but he speaks for a very different class – and that’s a problem for Labour | Dan Evans

There is a new ‘professional, managerial class’ running the party, and it has a complex relationship with the working class, says author Dan

the Guardian

In 1977, the US sociologists Barbara and John Ehrenreich coined the term “professional-managerial class” (PMC) to describe the growth and consolidation of a technocratic class of managers and elite professionals. As the writer Kenan Malik has put it: “There had developed, [the Ehrenreichs] argued, a new class of college-educated professionals, from engineers and middle managers to social workers and culture producers, that was distinct from the middle class of old but essential to the functioning of capitalism.”

The PMC is distinct from “white-collar workers” because of its specific role in managing the state, the workforce, and indeed capitalism itself, on behalf of the old ruling class. It not only developed and administered the technology that sped up the production process, but as social workers they managed the family and community; as advertisers they sold new goods.

The hope among the militants of the 60s and 70s such as the Ehrenreichs was that the PMC and the working class could join forces to take on growing corporate power. But this didn’t happen, and the class gradually came to believe it could run the state more efficiently and benevolently than the old ruling class, eventually reaching political maturity during the Blair and Clinton era of progressive neoliberalism.

Every time Labour has got into power, from Harold Wilson to Tony Blair, enthusiasm for the party has waned among working-class voters. One could attribute this to the natural swings of politics, but it appears there is something far more concrete at play. The truth is that many working-class voters are turned off by the authoritarian paternalism that Labour governments exhibit. The progressive PMC has never really understood this, whereas the right has, and exploits it ruthlessly. Margaret Thatcher was so successful because her ideology of “freedom” was able to tap into a long-held working-class hostility to the state bureaucracy and these paternalistic tendencies. Indeed, the perceived officiousness and illiberalism of the PMC has repeatedly allowed elements of the ruling class to present themselves as outsiders.

Spot on

Analysis by the Sutton Trust suggests that Keir Starmer’s cabinet will have the highest number of ministers educated at comprehensive schools, and the lowest proportion in modern history who went to private schools.

And nothing will change

Reform’s european right wing populism (this pro petit bourgeoise shite) has proven popular

But more so than that, probably, is Farages celebrity and anti establishment shite

But for me they’ve just taken the disgruntled Tory vote and some labour too

The Tories will move right to accomodate Reform and they may die a death

People know the parties are a load of shit

Yes mate

This is what English fascism actually looks like

I can barely look at Rory Stewart, I can’t fathom him

The only way something like that can happen is through inbreeding

wehavecomeforyourprivateschools:

Gonna get some late night election broadcasting in cos I desperately need the opinion of a relentless cast of privately educated oxbridgers and what they think about the election

The BBC are broadcasting right through the night until 1pm tomorrow afternoon. Presumably that’s how long it takes to hear the opinion of every last person that went to a private school.

Only then can we cease

Gonna get some late night election broadcasting in cos I desperately need the opinion of a relentless cast of privately educated oxbridgers and what they think about the election