The Left is becoming increasingly irrelevant and distant from the lives of ordinary people. Professor Simon Winlow, author The Death of the Left, interview George Galloway 2023
The Corbyn Project was dominated by liberal middle-class activists. ibid.
A very strange corruption of traditional British trade unionism. ibid.
Politics has become obsessed with cultural issues. ibid.
When I was young the Left had a palpable presence in the community … As I aged all of that stuff just vanished and the Left just disappeared and those connections, the familial connections, the institutions of the Left, withered and died … Maybe it’s not coming back. Professor Simon Winlow, co-author The Dead Left, interview with Steve Hall, Youtube 1.04.20, 2023
It no longer offers a compelling alternative to the existing order of things. It no longer promises to boost living standards … no longer promises to address a whole range of real-world problems that concern working-class people. ibid.