In recognising the role of the state, targeting the
support of working class people rather than Middle England, and setting out the social obligations owed by businesses, May was rhetorically drawing four decades of neoliberalism to a close.
They also expressed a clear need for Labour to learn lessons from the experience of the people of Greece and a desire to continue to build links with Syriza and other socialist parties in countries like Spain and Portugal in order to prevent further decline in the living
standards of working class people.
In 1979 Thatcher boasted in the House of Commons, to her Labour rivals, that Right to Buy would cause
thousands of working class people to vote Conservative for the first time.
By contrast, the Socialist Equality Party says it is rallying the support
of working class people around the world to stand together with the Palestinians and other people persecuted by imperialists like the US and Israel.
Yet while the former groups remain heavily in evidence in today's party, there are now a decreasing number of people on the Labour benches in parliament that look and sound like the majority
of working class people who actually vote Labour.
Actually, this is more of a movie about the dead - end
rut of working class people in small town communities, and the local bar is a big part of the lives of those who have nowhere else to go for socializing or companionship.
This quality of following everyone is known as dogmatism; dogmatism is a very prominent phenomenon amongst the
generation of working class people today and will continue to be a tendency for a very long time.