Scouse Republic - David Swift

[uglykidjoe1982]

I've heard some say he's leaning into hyperbole and contrarian cynicism in trying to provoke discussion around the darker eras of the city. As someone born and bred in the north east of England, I dare say we share a lot of similarities in many respects. Shipbuilding, poverty, immigration, large Irish and Chinese communities.

I think he's trying to poke at the nostalgic way we sometimes harm back...but I can absolutely understand why some would find it deliberately provocative.

I get that all groups of people have collective myths. There are plenty of factual examples that Liverpool isn’t a socialist utopia. My problem with the book is the snarky way it’s written. It’s very much the Reform/ alt right argument that the REAL working class all hate immigrants and cross picket lines.

 

[davek]

The author is Jewish.

Means nothing.

 

[datblygu]

The unpalatable truth for those who claim that Liverpool has been forever Labour.

Whatever happened to Tory Liverpool? | Liverpool University Press Digital Collaboration Hub

In the 1968 local elections the Liverpool Conservatives won 62 percent of the vote and 78 percent of the seats on Liverpool City Council. By 1972 the party had held a majority on Liverpool’s municipal government for 85 of the previous 100 years. But in 1983 they lost their last two MPs, and in...

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Glasgow was Tory until the 1950s too because of the Orange vote.

 

[Durham Toffee]

I get that all groups of people have collective myths. There are plenty of factual examples that Liverpool isn’t a socialist utopia. My problem with the book is the snarky way it’s written. It’s very much the Reform/ alt right argument that the REAL working class all hate immigrants and cross picket lines.

Oddly pertinent, albeit incorrect and deeply flawed, when considering it through the lens of today's politics and the shift towards the populist right and the prevailing encouragement of that by the media.

There are many powerful people who'd love us all to be believe there isn't a class war, but instead it's those different fellas taking your jobs...

Absolutely see your point, mate.