{"id":78619,"date":"2024-11-11T07:51:28","date_gmt":"2024-11-11T07:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=78619"},"modified":"2024-11-11T11:35:32","modified_gmt":"2024-11-11T11:35:32","slug":"to-pretend-that-people-hate-left-wing-politics-when-neither-labour-or-the-democrats-can-be-described-as-such-is-absurd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2024\/11\/11\/to-pretend-that-people-hate-left-wing-politics-when-neither-labour-or-the-democrats-can-be-described-as-such-is-absurd\/","title":{"rendered":"To pretend that people hate left-wing politics when neither Labour or the Democrats can be described as such is absurd"},"content":{"rendered":"

I usually think John Harris is one of the better voices on the Guardian opinion pages.<\/p>\n

Yesterday, though, he had an article headlined<\/a> in this way:<\/p>\n

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I think the article is total nonsense.<\/p>\n

When neither the Democrats in the USA nor Labour in the UK are remotely left of centre - both being neoliberal, market fundamentalist to their core - of course, society did not reject the left. Instead, they despise those who pretend to be left-wing, sometimes using a cloak of identity politics to support that false claim.<\/p>\n

I am not pretending that getting left-of-centre issues in front of people is easy because it is not. But to make claims as crass as this really does not help.<\/p>\n

And it really is time that the Guardian and its commentators stopped pretending that labour is remotely left-wing. It is not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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