[Tubby Isaacs]

Back with a new collection of people he's identified as "New Elite".

Robert Webb "Cambridge" grew up on a council estate in Lincolnshire. Isn't that social mobility?

And though I don't usually defend Nick Cohen, it seems like he was referring specifically to Cummings, Gove and Bozo. not ordinary people who voted for Brexit.

[mattomac]

The problem at this point is Goodwin won’t mention anyone who went to say Bournemouth (it’s my place of Graduation) but I’ll happily call his work garbage, I did sample a page or two and it felt dubious at best.

There looked like there was nothing that had much gone into this “new elite” and I think basically if you match any two very vague points you were “new elite”.

I’m not going purchase it but I assume it’s pseudo usuage of words and very little data that adds up to much over its 200 odd pages. Though one thing seems apparent, someone’s over ordered it.

[Youngian]

The New Elite routinely display a prejudice toward workers, non-graduates & conservatives

Most conservative non-graduate workers believe those with all the dosh are the elite. And will still believe that if they go to study the subject at lefty universities. But give those with the dosh a posher title like ‘owners of the means of production, distribution and exchange.’

[Andy McDandy]

People with glasses.
People who sass me.
People having fun.
People who look like they're having better sex than me.
People who crack jokes I don't get.
People who blank me.

That's all his new elite are.

[Youngian]

The Gammon cult started at the school disco when the nancy boys dressed like Bolan and Bowie pulled the fit birds.

[Rosvanian]

God, this is desperate stuff. How on earth does anyone take this man seriously? I mean, he's a speaker at next week's National Conservatism conference.

[Andy McDandy]

God, this is desperate stuff. How on earth does anyone take this man seriously? I mean, he's a speaker at next week's National Conservatism conference.

Those two last sentences aren't mutually exclusive.

[Tubby Isaacs]

What power does Laurie Penny have? I haven't seen anybody mention her for ages. I've at least heard of Robert Webb recently, but I'm not really sure what power he has either. He's a comic actor who's written an autobiography.

What's the evidence either of them, or James O'Brien or anyone else, hate non-graduates?

[Andy McDandy]

Especially considering his entire position and authority (such as it is) are based on his academic record.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Well that and sucking up to rich rightwing people.

[Rosvanian]

I'd like to invite this fucker to the pub at the bottom of my street tonight. Let's see how at home he feels about the working class lads and lasses of Gateshead when it kicks off because the doormen won't let in someone's mate because they're being a dick or when there's fisticuffs because someone chatted up their girlfriend during the karaoke.

[Rosvanian]

*with the working class lads and lasses

[Tubby Isaacs]

People who write columns for newspapers can live pretty much anywhere they like. It's funny how more of the Brexit rightists don't chose to live in Barnsley or Merthyr.

[mattomac]

What power does Laurie Penny have? I haven't seen anybody mention her for ages. I've at least heard of Robert Webb recently, but I'm not really sure what power he has either. He's a comic actor who's written an autobiography.

What's the evidence either of them, or James O'Brien or anyone else, hate non-graduates?

It's all in the book you haven't bought you "new eliter".*

*It's not

That's another for his list, those who haven't bought his book.

[Bones McCoy]

People who write columns for newspapers can live pretty much anywhere they like. It's funny how more of the Brexit rightists don't chose to live in Barnsley or Merthyr.

They probably ask Liz Jones what it's like outside SW1.

It was awful, they only had six brands of coffee and the whole place smelled of cowshit.

[Andy McDandy]

TBF, Liz Jones has actually lived in Yorkshire and on Exmoor. As I recall, her reaction to both wasn't far off the above. But still, batshit as she is, she does tend to put her money where her mouth is.

[Tubby Isaacs]

More from the professor, who not only regurgitates the rather baffling y axis, but thinks that a correction from Covid is a trendline. And is he expecting another, bigger European war in the near future?

[Malcolm Armsteen]

The Y axis is pretty fucked, too. Unless there is some higher meaning that I am missing.

[mattomac]

Which we will probably need to cover the mass short fall in the working population.

[RedSparrows]

Goodwin seems to have found the general Mail/right narrative from the past 20 years, and given it a pseudo intellectual sheen, and is now acting as if he's achieved some kind of insight.

This gig got tired years ago, and he's jumping up on stage in front of a crowd of half asleep and terminally deranged punters crying 'encore!!!'