Labour warned it will 'get its head kicked in' by Reform at local elections
Labour has been warned it will "get its head kicked in" by Reform UK at the local elections. Labour peer Maurice Glasman issued the grave warning ahead of Thursday's ballots where Nigel Farage's party is expected to make major gains.
Lord Glasman, who founded the influential Blue Labour group, that he believes Labour will "get its head kicked in" by Reform. He told the Observer: "It's game over if they don't change. People are losing faith in government, in the most general way, and someone has to stop that.
Not quite the language of Disraeli and Gladstone, but today we might crudely suggest that any amount of head damage wouldn't make much difference to Labour anyway. Lord Glasman did add this strange bit of optimism for the future though -
"Labour must be a pro-worker, patriotic party, not talking gibberish about diversity."
Unfortunately, a party which is anti-worker, unpatriotic and which constantly talks gibberish about diversity has a long way to go if that's the ideal. 
6 comments:
I read your headline as The Elephant Language of Politics. I must say that Sir Greased Piglet makes a preposterous pachyderm.
dearieme - yes, he doesn't have the gravitas of a pachyderm, not even a small one.
Losing faith? The irony is that a party which didn’t shamelessly lie would probably win, regardless of its economic
and social policies.
Politics happens downstream from culture, and we have become a nation of people who want happiness now, with no trade-offs, costs, or bad consequences. We've created a society where the elite is represented by a shameless lying pseudo-technocrat. Depressing, but all too obvious in hindsight. A kicked-in Labour head will be welcome, if only because it betokens a swerve towards adulthood by the electorate.
Sam - it will be interesting if the shameless lying has to be toned down. One of the drivers for that could be familiarity with online spam and scams, so shameless political lying is seen as just another aspect of it. In a sense it is just that.
Brought this oldie to mind. Not quite MoR that they became.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=T-ENqNz9pp8.
Doonhamer - I'd never heard that one before, Lord Glasman should arrange for it to be played at the next Labour conference.
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