Labour want calorie counts on beer pumps...

There is a good report on GB News I watched today which is an interview with Matthew Goodwin.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=otvGZzo16nM

He has written a book about these people in which he describes his research. He says they are mainly from Russell Group universities and are often represented in the Labour Party, but some Tories too. I mention it because having been to one of these universities myself, my experiences are very close to what he describes. I could not stand the attitude then and neither now. They drive you friggin' mad. It was a combination of very stupid, high sense of privilege and dogmatic arrogance. If you wanted to chat up any of their women you had to feign it as a woke art student. One night I pulled it off, another time I blew it by my own admission.

I was listening to GB News this morning, while on veg prep duty, but I didn't hear that. In my defence I was distracted a few times by Mrs R who was in the garden, anyway. Mathew Goodwin, what a star. His book, Values Voice and Virtue, is defo on my list. He is so right, the vast majority didn't want things like mass immigration or globalisation but they had no choice.

Synopsis:

Britain is in the midst of an historic transformation. Over the past decade, a country once known around the globe for its stable politics has seemingly descended into chaos. Through a series of upheavals, the country's liberal establishment has been outflanked and a new alliance of voters has emerged, weakening the traditional divide between left and right.

In trying to make sense of this, many commentators have turned to short-term explanations: dark money, the recession, the personalities of party leaders. But, as acclaimed political scientist Matthew Goodwin reveals in this strikingly original study, the remarkable turbulence of recent years has been a long time in the making-and it is set to continue for many years to come.

Embarking on a profound and ranging analysis of postwar British politics, Goodwin shows how the liberalising projects of the Thatcher and Blair years gave rise to new, cultural divides - over 'values,' 'voice,' and 'virtue' - which have now begun to define political debate and determine elections.

Goodwin reveals why these uniquely powerful cultural divides are allowing the right to flourish as the left flounders, and argues that this imbalance has shifted British politics into an entirely new phase. In the absence of a unifying cultural narrative, we have decisively left behind the era of postwar consensus, and entered a new age of political volatility.

A snip at £20 from Waterstones. 

You utter pillock, you have hamstrung yourself. 

People have been drinking beer for hundreds of years and have never asked the nanny state to school them over the amount of calories they may be drinking.

If you have any evidence to the contrary, lets see it...

People want to meke their own choice. Not what some lefty woke wanker wants to inflict upon them.

They cannot make that choice if the information is not available.😔

I am not calling people idiots but lets get rid of all the warning labels and let things sort themselves out.😂

What choice has a consumer lost?