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Wealthy comfortable people living in gentrified areas, think climate change and LGBTQ are the most important issues, but for the working majority its the cost of living crisis, job security and housing, all affected by high unsustainable immigration

I am sick to death of climate and LGTB etc - I want this country to work again... for trains to run on time, for houses to be affordable, for jobs to be available, for healthcare to be timely and for someone to respect our heritage!!!

I am a white working class graduate who stopped voting Labour under Blair. I may have a degree, but the snobbish attitude of the left middle class is the same to me. I don't even see them as genuinely left wing, the middle class are Liberal not left wing.

Prince Harry finally making sense.

As an ex Labour voter, all i can say is......God help us all.

Spend a couple of hours reading the Guardian. The routine level of priggishly self-righteous snobbery aimed at huge swathes of the British public is huge. It's morphed into a chattering classes Daily Mail.

I live in one of those predominantly white, skilled working class parts of England. Lots of builders, roofers, chippies, sparkies etc. Quite a few St George Cross' being flown but, as far as I've seen so far, not a single poster supporting Labour. One Lib Dem, that's it.

I like Paul Embrey, an honest and thoughtful lefty. A rare beast.

I'm stuck in a labour safe seat and I hate it. Labour has betrayed the working class for thirty years.

I’m always astonished that the chattering classes idolise Tuscan peasants, and Provencal peasants, whilst despising the equivalent in britain.

Keir Hardie wanted to ban all immigration from countries where the average wage was lower than the UK to stop employers bringing in cheap Labour to under cut British workers, that was in 1899, quite a nuanced position that would benefit us today. The modern Labour lovies would call him a racist bigot, he would be turning in his grave at what the Labour Party has become.

Plumbers make more than teachers. 'Working class' is an outdated Victorian paradigm: unskilled labour with zero social mobility. That simply isn't the case in the UK any more. Someone working on a building site in current year is a world away from a navvy. If anything the "educated class" is falling behind, not skilled labour. AI can do excel, it can't lay a hardwood floor.

Is Embery beating about the bush, avoiding the issue? Many working class English people simply want England to remain recognizably, dominantly English- economic issues are secondary. Small- scale immigration is not a problem, but mass immigration an existential threat. But we can accept the world, others will say, they will become English- don't be a bigot, a racist. I answer- only if you think being English is so loose and vague it has hardly any meaning at all. Could I, an atheist Brit, move to Pakistan and become every bit a Pakistani? Of course not.

Great to hear from leftwingers who break from the script. My only slight disagreement with Embry is that he says the effect of migration on wages in this country is negligible. I would argue, it's just a matter of time before the effects start to kick in. The country is currently being fed a diet of myths like "British people don't want to do those jobs", "We need more migrants to fill vacancies", and greedy UK bosses going on about how their Eastern European workers are "more hardworking than my English ones". A grand narrative is being spun to make us unemployable.

This is the way Socialism and its variants always goes. Meritocracy is removed, special status to the 'oppressed', and economic malaise a byproduct.

Immigration is not negligible in this country !

No matter how high Keir Starmer rose in the world, he never lost the commie touch.

"Good for the GDP" does NOT necessarily mean good for the people. Put everyone in the whole world into one country, and that's going to be wonderful for the country's GDP... but not for the people. What's good for one group, ie immigrants, can be bad for another, such as the natives.

I'm going to spend the next 4-5 years saying "you voted for it". So many people haven't clocked on that it's just the two liberal uniparty system, with slightly different views on the same elitist topics. The two main parties, will not save you.. they're completely ideologically captured. Long term, it's very worrying if the general population don't clock on and we keep repeating the same cycle. Leaving the country may be the only option if things keep on like this for the next 10-15 years.

Does Paul Embery accept that the desire that many indigenous English working class people have that England remain predominantly English in ethnic identity and culture is legitimate? I'm not sure he's quite clear about this. If you said to most people in this country right or left- 'hey apparently most people in Tunisia want Tunisia to remain predominantly Tunisian- what do you think about that?' I think most would accept it as natural and fine.(And for Tunisia, you could subsitute Korea, Senegal, etc etc). But for England it's a no-no. I've never understood exactly why.

Glastonbury today. Leader of some band performing there suggested the country didn't need Octogenarians. This suggests that we elderly are perhaps not wanted. If this was recorded 4 yrs ago things are much worse now. We know the real issues are not being discussed by the Labour party and they're encouraging this ideology.

I photographed the Canadian trucker convoy for the daily Mail and let me tell you this was definitely blue collar versus white collar.

I am an ex Labour voter, voted LAB all my life. That party has absolutely no values that relate to mine now. I have a feeling I am not alone.

When a party has completely abandoned the working class, how is it left wing anymore? We dont have a left wing party in this country, we have 2 right wing parties, ones just slightly more obsessed wjth identity politics than the other.

As a right-winger, this guy is brilliant and what the left needs to grab with both hands and perhaps sannity may return to politics.

As an American, I have been perpetually confused by the tendency of UK liberals to import American racial and imigration issues. Here in the grand ol' US of A, it is racist and peculiar for anyone who isn't a member of one of a Native peoples, to see their race as the default race of the US. Equally, anyone whose ancestors immigrated here from the "old world" feeling they have a right to say now that other's cannot also immigrate is very silly, right on it's face. But England is where English people are from. Wales is where Welsh people are from. Just as China has the right, at any time, to limit the number of non Chinese people who can move there, just as Japan has a right to insist that an Englishman, moving to Japan, assimilate into the existing Japanese culture, English people have a right to insist that England remain as English as they like. Yall are not "a nation of immigrants." That's what we are. Yall are a nation of origin, just like any other nation of origin on the planet. Any standard that you accept for a "non white" country should apply equally to a "white" country.

Paul you are now like me 'Far right"

Put British people FIRST.

Spot on, most people just want to see a bit of control, the population keeps going up but services, housing etc are simply being stretched to the limit. It’s not about race it’s about numbers.

I grew up in a wealthy Liberal Arts college/law school town outside Chicago. I knew a lot of profs/students and I chose to be a mom. My kids are now 50. What I've noticed is that the "elite values" seem to be "Let this Birkin Bag represent my worth as a person" and as things change the "Elite" are threatened by this materialist costume does not add the value to their life that it used to.

The working class no longer labour at the coal face, the blas furnace, the quarry, the chemical plant. They lost those jobs when the country deindustrialised. They now have a white van, are self employed and naturally now moderate right wingers. There been a huge shift and that’s why Labour moved into the wine not beer, avocado not cornflakes or porridge, home owners not renters set. Tolerance of immigration is not as prevalent as the chattering classes think, they’re benefiting, lower echelons of so carry the burden and costs. It’s culture that’s threatened, to paraphrase another book it’s the somewheres feeling threatened by the elite anywheres. I read your book in 2020 and it’s a good read, we saw how the elite despised the rest of their countrymen, branding them deplorables, the uneducated the gammons back in 2016. Sanctimony on steroids. They’re going to live through it again when Reform have a growing presence in the HOC and in 2024 provide another shock culminating in significant presence if not a majority in 2029.

Labour used to be the Party or the working class. It no longer reflects their concerns in any way.

Globalism v Nationalism in a nutshell. If you want Democracy you vote for Nationalism. VOTE REFORM

I am from estonia. When estonia joined EU there were for years difficulties for estonians or any other who joined EU to still work in old EU countries. I think at least 7 years. Eventhough we were in EU, because the old EU countries did not want to mess up their job market by new "cheap" labour. Remember that. These things were put on new members of EU in 2004... now it is like free for all... come, take benefits, you do not even need to work... how the heck one can think this wont collapse sooner rather than later.

The feelings mutual.

As someone who used to be on the political left but haven't been for many years and unlikely to return in its current guise Paul Embery is a very balanced and pragmatic guy who sees both sides of the coin and things for what they are. To have any sense of credibility moving forwards the left need more people like Paul at the forefront. Labour are on borrowed time, they will have one term only.

I remember listening to this entire interview when it first cam out. Excellent piece. Thanks for re-posting. Oh, and by the way, vote Reform (or SDP)...😊

I live in a working class seaside town and no one I know wants to stop immigration because of economic reasons, Its because the social, cultural and yes even racial reasons. I would say its the same in most English towns because people have eyes and can see what is actually happening.

I am not a Labour voter, the last time i voted for them was in the late 1970s. But I've always thought Mr Embery is one of the few Labour party members who speak for the working class, I know he hasn't had an easy time in the Labour party himself because of his views. It's just a shame their aren't more like him, if their were, i might even think of voting for them again.

I'll never understand the elites' distain for the working class when they rise and sleep under the blanket of comfort and security that is provided entirely by said working class. Its like Fight Club: "we haul your trash, connect your calls, drive your ambulances......we guard you while you sleep. DO NOT FUCK WITH US."

Paul needs to discover the SDP

Paul is always eloquent and intelligent on the important issues in society and politics.

Despite all the Tory woes we're seeing now. The Labour party have deeper issues that are more likely to destroy them in the long term. When you look at Labour conferences and their activist base. They are too bourgeois and city centric in terms of their outlook.

This is the key point: those who enact “open border“ policies and push for unmitigated illegal immigration, aren’t the ones that are actually having to deal with the repercussions of those policies. It’s the folks along the border(s), low income wage earners and the teachers and medical professionals in the country’s healthcare and educational systems.

This is the key point: those whom champion and enact “open border“ legislation and push for unmitigated illegal immigration, aren’t the ones that are actually having to deal with the repercussions of those policies. It’s the folks along the border(s), low income wage earners and the medical professionals and educators trying to keep and and just survive in country’s healthcare and educational systems.

🇮🇪 Sinn Fein have fallen into this very trap in the Republic of Ireland. Formerly the were violently ethno- nationalist and targeted working class areas with a tax-the-rich, housing for all message. Then they went after the middle class and woke student vote with liberal immigration and gender policy campaigns. They have no belief in these stances but just used them to drive a consensus for a united ireland vote. Their working class vote has collapsed as a result.

People can’t buy groceries and gas and housing and provide for their children. How dense do you have to be to not figure this out.

Labour don't deserve Paul....cheers.

Who is driving this shift towards the far left and totalitarianism? Why have our major parties capitulated to "whats in it for me".

The importance of family, homeland and a moral code cannot be overestimated in creating a personal sense of security, and the degreed classes, in their obsession with multiculturalism and disdain for religion, have conceived a hatred for the classes who still value them. This is not just the UK; it's world-wide.

Being gay isn't in any way illegal, and it hasn't been for many many years this obsession with it is tedious.

I was Labour from 16 until 43 in 1996. I was aghast at what Blair-Brown were doing to the country and it got worse under Cameron-Clegg and now it is going down the drain with Starmer. I was always opposed to the EEC-EU and became UKIP in 2015 and Brexit-Reform in 2019.

A mirror image of the two-party conflict here in the US.

They're from privileged parents.

I certainly don't believe in hard core trade unionism, I do like Paul's take on things. I miss this old skool leftyism.

His analysis is spot on. this is why the working class has abandoned Labour

Paul Embury completely neglects the attack on our Institutions by the Queer-Theory Activists, especially their capture of Education. Two highly recommended U-tube videos: 1 'What is Wrong with the Labour Party? Rosie Duffield is a Legend', from The Famous Artist Birdie Rose. 2 'The Transvestite Headteacher in the School Library' about the Primary school in Kinlochbervie. From the Scottish Family Party. They are a Christian group, but you don't have to be at all religious to deplore what is happening.

Close the gate the rest of Europe

the main consequences of unrestricted immigration are lawlessness, housing shortages, healthcare shortages, and community division, loss of social cohesion. these hit the poorest members hardest.

What's remarkable is how few Labour voters actually understand what it is they're voting for.

I’ve been saying this for years now, that Labour are no longer the party of the working class - they are the party of the university class (middle class). I left Labour some time ago - I cancelled my membership and have stopped voting for them. I feel politically homeless.

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"Prince Harry is right!"

Funny it's still even called the Labour party.

College educated Marxism

I read that book and it was a wake-up call for me. Can't thank Paul enough.

In Canada we have the NDP, the New Democratic Party, which started out as something very sympathetic and is now just awful.

It is contempt for the people that need to work to meet the end's day. Some people forget that some rich families started with hard work and got lucky.

Living in a middle class Labour supporting area, and fitting that demographic myself, I am dismayed by the shamelessly hostile attitude of many people I know towards white working class people and their values. This was perhaps most blatant during the Brexit campaign and its aftermath, when it became such common coin that only racists and imbeciles would have voted Leave that people just assumed by default that all their friends were Remainers.

Fair comment from Embery Jaoan is a clean and organised free-from-immigrant country

Leftist and green ideas (ideology) are luxury issues, thus uncommon with people who struggle with their economic situation.

LGB have noting to do with T's

Far too late. This debate needs to have been held 25 years ago.

I value Paul’s honesty and very much appreciate him speaking out about exactly what has happened. However, you can see he feels the need to sugarcoat it, probably because he doesn’t want to offend the countless snowflakes in his own party. I was Labour before but now detest them and their middle-class virtue signalling members. I wish Reform has a better chance of being elected.

Im a white, middle class, graduate woman, who never voted leftist in my life, in fact while I was a student, I had lunch with Norman Tebbit as part of the Conservative Students where I was studying. Vote Reform.

The true disconnect is that now a “leftist” has to agree on every point of the dogma agenda. If they differ on even one of these they are considered to be right wing extremists. These factions ( right wing to a slightly lesser extent) demand complete agreement where in the past these were coalitions of people that agreed on more than they didn’t but weren’t in total lockstep.

Cos it's NOT the real 'left'!

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Labour should change it's name. It hasn't stood for the working man for a very long time.

I haven’t voted labour for 25 years. Only option is reform now.

Chatting to some local men in the pubs last autumn and winter, it was the working-class, skilled technicians and tradesmen who were clued-up about politics at home and abroad. They inform themselves and won't be talked down to. Meanwhile the middle classes all believe what the BBC et al tell them and don't look into the details, just as long as their kids are at "Uni" and they have a nice foreign holiday each year. The hope for the future is the young people who are NOT going to university, unless it is STEM subjects. In my town, no one has been talking about politics in public, and some people seem quite scared somehow.

Talking about current immigration without comparing it to previous generations of immigration is a serious mistake. Tens of thousands of young men coming in is the last few years not wishing to integrate but in fact to culturally take over the country even by reproducing quicker is fundamentally different to previous immigrant families who just wanted to settle down and make a living within the overall culture of the country whilst retaining their special identities.

We've had a cost of living crisis since the tories got in. It just didn't affect the middle class, so it wasn't a crisis to anyone but us poors. Over 200,00 people died because of austerity. The vast majority disabled. The left was silent.

Why have we got Starmer as leader of the Labour Party, a man devoid of set principles, and not Paul Embery? If they did as a working class bloke I’d seriously consider voting Labour for the first time in my life!

I worked in Barking & Dagenham, and I read the history of these two villages outside of London, which are now unrecognisable from what they were.

How did I know he was going to climate change first. "Working class people don't care their children and everyone else's will die in a fire a few years down the road, they just want to make some more money for themselves today." I've been working class my entire life and have always held climate change as my number one issue.

This isn’t a new phenomenon! The intellectual left has only one requirement for the working class and that is unquestioning obedience. Even Marx and Orwell came from privileged backgrounds and had little empathy for or understanding of peasants.

Excellent discussion.

They loathe the concept of hard, honest, work.

Labour has not been for the worker since the late 70's. F Em.

Thank you

Cant meet net zero with expanding population - Net Zero For Net Zero .

Great video. I was a process control engineer (just retired 2/21/24) I would always stress test my projects just to make sure it would work under all conditions. Also depending on the government. But I found away of earning more income despite my Retirement. $57k weekly returns has been life changing, after so much struggles.

Mr. Embry documents the results of 50 years of postmodernism on politics. Post-modernism "criticizes Western institutions and liberalism". (Kuznar 2008:78), so the origin of it is clear.

For some reason, those people who instigate and promote lower tier issues seem to have more influence than they should. Both the mainstream and social media are mainly to blame, but I'm not sure how it contaminates establishments like the police and schools.

Labour used to stick up for the working class & poorer people but now seem complicit in making us all poorer. They constantly complain about the rising cost of housing & rents, the rising cost of living but don't seem to think it can possibly be anything to do with the high level of immigration we have had over the last few years or the frantic race for net zero. This means that however many houses we build every year it will never keep up with demand from huge increases in population & so house prices & rents will continue to rise.. Similarly, we are all ,rich & poor forced into having to pay green taxes, more for energy & more for food all because of this frantic race to be net zero. It is all just basic economics & common sense These issues are neither right or left but it seems that the left just want to blame the Tories for all the Countries troubles & It is only the 'far right' that is listening to the real reasons ! .

I’m an immigrant and I hate the fact that entire communities have been transformed culturally. My own people don’t integrate

The thing he mentions about Japan is very true. I spent a year in Japan as part of my degree last year and a lot of people throw out the term 'xenophobic' in reference to their desire of keeping their culture the way it is. Japanese people are some of the most welcoming and polite people I have ever met. You do have to follow the rules and respect their culture, as they like things exactly the way they are and aren't interested in foreign changes much. It's not a bad thing at all. I'm in their country, of course I am going to behave and follow the rules and would feel rude if I didn't. I wish we here in the UK would take note of that. I feel like Britain's identity is slowing being destroyed in place of 'Diversity' and 'Progressiveness' being British really doesn't mean anything anymore

They try to distract you from what's really going on - which is your own demise.