Blue Labour
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Coined by Maurice Glasman in 2009.
Proper noun[edit]
- (UK politics) A political tendency advocating the belief that working-class voters will be won back to Labour through socially conservative ideas on certain issues.
- 2011 May 21, Ed Rooksby, “Don't underestimate toxic Blue Labour”, in The Guardian[1]:
- It doesn't take a genius to see that its hostility towards statism, in the context of economic crisis and austerity, could provide useful ideological cover for an assault on welfare. Blue Labour thinking, here, converges seamlessly with Cameron's “big society”.