Imitating Farage's imported US-style culture war bollocks is an absurdly dense idea

Reform are beating Labour in the polls and pushing US-style culture war bollocks, so the idiots at Blue Labour are proposing that Starmer focus public attention on US-style culture war bollocks!

The right-wing Blue Labour faction who have enormous influence over Keir Starmer are advising him to go all-in on US-style culture war bollocks by "rooting out DEI" to pander to Reform voters.

There’s a myriad of reasons this is a stupid reactionary idea:

"DEI" is a term specific to US politics. In the UK policies to promote diversity, inclusion, and fairness are referred to as EDI. It’s hard to pretend that you’re not playing US-style culture war bollocks, when you’re using the US term rather than the British one.

Recent analysis torpedoed Nigel Farage’s claims that there is £7 billion to be saved by cutting “DEI schemes". The real figure for public spending on equality schemes in just £27 million, which is one two hundred and fiftieth of what Farage has been claiming. If Labour is insistent on wading into this particular culture war, surely it would make more sense to point out Farage’s false claims, than to engage the issue on Farage’s terms?

Listening to Blue Labour has already driven away millions of traditional Labour voters who despise the continuation of Tory austerity cuts and social security vandalism, and reject Keir Starmer’s Enoch Powell-style anti-immigrant scapegoating. For every supporter they’re picking up from the "I’m alright Jack" and radical-right ultranationalist crowd, they seem to be driving away dozens of Labour’s traditional voters.

Quite a lot of the so-called "DEI" policies that the Blue Labour goons are fulminating against are actually intended to help the working class communities that Blue Labour like to caricature as Reform-voting simpletons. Consider the academic under-performance of poor white working class kids compared to peers from other ethnic groups. Do we think something should be done to get to the bottom of this issue, or is it "DEI wokery" to try and understand and rectify the problem?

Westminster is horribly under-representative of the wider British population. The upper middle-classes and extremely rich are massively over-represented, while people from working class backgrounds make up a tiny minority of modern day MPs. If Labour wants to appeal to working class people, surely it would make more sense to actively try and ensure that more Labour candidates come from their local communities, and have real working experience, rather than parachuting in a load of Keir Starmer’s right-wing mates from Labour HQ; aspiring career politicians with degrees in PPE from Oxford and no real working experience; greedy slumlords; and London-based corporate lobbyists and wonk tank grifters?

Starmer’s Labour absolutely stinks at playing culture war bollocks, not least because anyone who cares to, can easily find the polar opposite things Keir Starmer used to say, back when he way lying his way into the Labour leadership. Labour are terrible at playing culture war bollocks; it comes across as deeply dishonest when they try to; and it also reeks of desperation when they’re obviously only trying to do it now because they’re afraid of Farage and Reform.

If Labour want to appeal to working class voters, surely it would make more sense to introduce policies that would make material improvements to their lives, their living conditions, and their communities, rather than just assuming that they’re a bunch of reactionary half-wits who hang on every word Nigel Farage says?

The reason that Starmer will probably end up listening to his idiotic Blue Labour mates is that it would take real investment and a lot of effort to actually make material improvements to people’s lives, while fulminating about so-called "DEI wokery" in the hope that working class communities are thick enough to fall for it is effortless, and basically free.