An Excellent Prospect

Lord Glasman is attracting attention with an article in the next edition of Prospect, apparently setting out what some of us have been saying for years, that this country is experiencing the importation of a new working class which understands no English except commands, has no loyalty to any particular locality here and can therefore be moved around at will, knows little or nothing about workers' rights under our law, and can be deported if it steps out of line. If Maurice is not Ed Miliband's "guru", then why not?

And both, lest we forget, are Jewish. Indeed Maurice's rise to prominence represents the welcome return to public life of the real, old, London Jewish accent. In more ways than one. None of this will please the tiresome Blairite remnant, a number of whom have relatives who speak like Maurice, both in terms of what he says and in terms of how he says it, but who would rather not talk either to them or about them.

In lining up with David Cameron, Rupert Murdoch and the BNP against the opportunity to restore left-wing but strictly non-Marxist economics to the ballot paper along with patriotism and social conservatism (in stark contrast to Nigel Farage's calls to decriminalise drugs and prostitution), the elderly Communist and Trotskyist rump of Blairism is ridiculously presenting itself as "traditional Labour" or what have you, aided and abetted both by those media tribally loyal to the Leader of the Conservative Party and by those media ideologically loyal to the Heir to Blair. The pleasure of beating them all in the forthcoming referendum will be surpassed only by the pleasure of beating them all at the next General Election.