it can be described as a set of critical, strategic and rhetorical practices employing concepts such as difference, repetition, the trace, the simulacrum, and hyperreality to destabilize other concepts such as presence, identity, historical progress, epistemic certainty, and the univocity of meaning.” And over the past decade, many of these voters have felt pushed away from Labour by their growing awareness of the third big divide over virtue, how some institutions and activists today have simply come to see some groups in British society as more virtuous, more morally worthy, than others.

Are you starting to understand that English traditions cannot and will not be maintained by the children of other peoples? Values, Voice and Virtue is certainly a work of sociological insight. But it’s also a much-needed corrective. It gives voice to those whose values are scarcely heard or represented by the media. As Goodwin writes of these members of the devalued majority, ‘they no longer feel their voice is represented in the institutions; and they no longer feel that, relative to others, their group is recognised as having the same amount of social status, prestige, dignity and moral worth’. Seven new Social Mobility Commissioners appointed". Government Equalities Office . Retrieved 2 September 2022. Ultimately, Labour has done remarkably well to stage such a recovery, but in both Britain and beyond it will be these lingering divides over values, voice and virtue that will determine whether this fragile recovery morphs into a much stronger and more sustainable position of power. McGee, Luke (18 May 2023). "Why are some British Conservatives behaving like the next election is already lost?". CNN . Retrieved 18 August 2023.In 2018, Goodwin along with other commentators including Eric Kaufmann, Claire Fox, Trevor Phillips and David Aaronovitch was due to take part in an event titled "Is Rising Ethnic Diversity a Threat to the West?" Some researchers argued that the event would encourage "normalisation of far right ideas" and criticised the framing of the title; [42] [43] [44] the debate was retitled "Immigration and Diversity Politics: A Challenge to Liberal Democracy?" [45]

Goodwin, Matt (28 May 2023). "Matt Goodwin: The revolution of liberal economics and woke cultural extremism has failed and left Britain broken". Belfast News Letter . Retrieved 21 August 2023. Luntz finds the greates thingh dividing people in UK is rich v. poor. Cultural issues don’t really have the salience that Mathew’s piece would suggest except for the tradiotnal Tory dislike of immigrants. Soros, and the Global Elites are out to destroy the Middle Class as they are wealthy enough to be free from government buying their votes, and moral enough to vote for the Country instead of self, so they are to be replaced by migrants of opposing values, and by underclass trapped in government handouts and paid to have children – to divide and conquer the Western Democracies – and thus create Globalism where they will live as virtual Gods. The Global Elites own 80% of the money/debt, they own the MSM, they own the Social Media, they own all the main Political Parties, (thus why they are called the ‘Donor Class, as they finance all campaigns to move their people into power, and to own the political debt on the rest) That woke “intersectional pyramid” is a hierarchy of victim status. In fact the entire concept of identity politics – which purports to be about inclusivity and equality – is in reality divisive and intolerant. It silos people and silences people. Identity Politics tells us what groups we belong to and that our whole identity is defined by that group and dependent on that group, this drives a wedge between people who would previously have felt kinship with one another. It is hard to retain solidarity with your community when parts of that community are being taught that it is ‘right’ to mistrust the motives of another.Goodwin’s book is the best we know in analysing the strong tides in current politics and we offer the following paragraphs as brief guide to his ideas. For those who want a longer introduction Goodwin’s speech at the National Conservative conference last week is a good place to start. Stacey Dooley and a Ukrainian recruit in Ready For War. Photograph: Blanca Munoz/BBC/True Vision East Goodwin, Matthew; Milazzo, Caitlin (2015). UKIP: Inside the Campaign to Redraw the Map of British Politics. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198736110. And that, many on the left have argued in recent years, is just what has happened. One of the most uncompromising analyses of “anti-working class radicalism” came in the American academic Catherine Liu’s acerbic tract, Virtue Hoarders. What will eventually defeat this pernicious ideology is that its ideas are manifestly contradictory. To fully support one facet of woke-dom puts you on the wrong side of another facet. If you stand up to support feminist rights you fall foul of trans-rights etc etc

a b c d C. Davies, Huw; MacRae, Sheena E. (15 May 2023). "An anatomy of the British war on woke". Race & Class. SAGE Publications. doi: 10.1177/03063968231164905. ISSN 0306-3968. S2CID 258736793.Since 2015, Goodwin has been professor of politics in the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Kent. [8] Other [ edit ] By contrast, the “traditional values” displayed by conservatives are presented as almost natural, despite the vast literature showing how notions such as “national identity” or “whiteness” may be constructed in a top-down way that benefits the elite. Goodwin’s argumentation bears another contradiction: if the new elite imposes its progressive values on the rest of society, was that not the case also with the old elite and its traditionalist values? Indeed, Goodwin fails to explain what exactly is wrong with questioning received knowledge about the past, the Empire, British identity etc. Shouldn’t social scientists welcome this kind of critical interrogation and debate? Isn’t history a science to be rewritten in the light of new evidence and arguments?