‘Woke Social Media Warriors’: Labour Frontbencher Quits Sir Keir’s Cabinet Complaining of ‘London-Based Bourgeoisie’ Captured Labour Party.
Labour’s shadow defence secretary said the party had been captured by “a London-based bourgeoisie, with the support of brigades of woke social media warriors” as he quit his post after the historic Hartlepool by-election defeat on Friday.
Labour’s woes intensified on Friday night in the wake of losing another once-safe seat to Boris Johnson’s Conservatives, when Shadow Defence Secretary Khalid Mahmood resigned from party leader Sir Keir Starmer’s shadow cabinet, firing a caustic broadside as he did.
The Labour Party has been “captured” by a “London-based bourgeoisie, with the support of brigades of woke social media warriors”, Mahmood said, describing people who had more in common with the international Californian tech elite than the British working class which the party was founded to fight for over a century ago. Breitbart.
