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Labour: Now it's kind of blue
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| Contributor | Ralphie |
| Last Edited | Ralphie Mar 17, 2011 04:50pm |
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| Category | Blog Entry |
| Author | Allegra Stratton |
| Media | Newspaper - Guardian |
| News Date | Friday, April 24, 2009 10:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | This week saw the birth of something called Blue Labour.
Yup, it's another rainbow political label – but it's fairly significant because it gives a bit of polish to the currently nebulous and nascent thinking emerging to rival the "Red Tory" brand.
The father of Blue Labour is Dr Maurice Glasman. His idea is this: Labour needs to disinter a strand of its thinking buried somewhere in the early 20th-century Labour party.
In the puff for the launch, which took place at Conway Hall in Bloomsbury, central London, on Wednesday, Glasman describes Blue Labour as "a deeply conservative socialism that places family, faith and work at the heart of a new politics of reciprocity, mutuality and solidarity".
On the night, Glasman added: "It's also 'blue' because it's a sad moment – in a Miles Davis kind of way." |
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