As time has gone on I’ve become more and more suspicious of those in academia. The academic world should and could have been a bastion of free thought and open minded enquiry but since the early 1970’s academia in the United Kingdom has increasingly come to resemble a middle class, left wing mono-thought clique. British academia has become a nation within the nation with it’s own outlooks on life and which promotes ideas that might look good on paper or sound good in the confines of specialist conferences but which fail dismally when confronted with political, social and economic reality. Those of us in the lower orders of society and who have suffered because of economic and social policies espoused by Britain’s academic class have come to see that George Orwell was correct when he said: “Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.”

However it would be wrong to hold in contempt all those who work in the academic world. There are some who are not captured by ideology and who are speaking the truths that others in the the intelligentsia cannot or refuse to.

One of those academics who I’ve been observing from time to time and who is prepared to think outside the box is Lisa McKenzie. This particular academic who is not afraid to speak of her working class background has written a brilliant piece for Spiked magazine where she takes aim at the Labour Party’s penchant for parachuting in upper class candidates into working class areas and for engaging in tick box identity politics based selections of candidates.

Ms McKenzie spoke of numerous situations where Labour Party HQ has imposed candidates who either tick the right ethnic, sex, gender or sexuality boxes on constituency parties and gave the particular example of Nadia Whittome a ‘painfully woke’ 23 year old woman on Nottingham East. Ms Whittome was the replacement for another centrally imposed candidate who had served as a researcher for Gordon Brown.

I agree with Ms McKenzie that such practises show contempt for the working class voters in the areas where these posh and/or woke candidates are imposed.

Ms McKenzie said:

Labour has been taking working-class voters for a ride in this way for at least 40 years. Its leaders have always made sure their mates get into safe seats, while hoping the working classes are too thick to notice. No wonder that votes for Labour in the deindustrialised communities have been falling since Blair’s 1997 landslide, when the party’s focus shifted to middle-class voters in the Home Counties. This culminated with Boris Johnson’s 2019 landslide, when Labour lost nearly 50 seats in the so-called Red Wall in the Midlands and the north. Starmer’s current poll lead owes far more to dissatisfaction with the governing Tories than any enthusiasm for Labour among its traditional working-class base.

Working-class people have clearly had enough of being taken advantage of by Labour. And no wonder. The party has effectively abandoned the needs of some of the most disadvantaged people in the country.

Whilst I am aware of and accept that Labour throughout its history has been an amalgam of the ‘Hampstead’ liberal middle class and the ‘Hull’ working classes from industrial areas, it’s obvious to me that today the balance has been tipped too far towards the ‘Hampstead’ types and away from Labour’s traditional working class supporters and their concerns. Labour do take its working class supporters for granted and even worse chuck out ‘snarl’ words like ‘racist’ or ‘transphobe’ to those in the working classes who are disturbed and astonished at Labour’s open borders obsession, Islamopandering and claims by some of the party’s workers and candidates that women can have penises.

As a person from a working class background myself I can no longer see the Labour Party as a genuine voice for those of my class and my family’s class. Ms McKenzie is correct. To put it bluntly Labour have taken the piss out of us for decades and treated the working class and our concerns with contempt. I cannot vote Labour as to do so would be to vote against my and my class’s own interests. Labour no longer represents people like me nor does it represent the interests of my family who toiled for years in often dangerous and unpleasant industries. Labour is now only interested in pandering to radical Islam, the groomers of the gender identity movement and the sort of privileged upper class and upper middle class individuals who are wealthy enough to afford the sort of socialism that Labour wish to impose on the country. To any people who are working class and who are reading this I say ‘don’t vote Labour’ because however bad things are now, Labour will make things much much worse.