The idea that Labour has gone from being a ‘pie and a pint’ working class party of northern proletarians to quinoa lovers in North London has been promoted by Deborah Mattinson on social media and on BBC politics this week.
The story dates from September 2018:
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/sep/10/swing-voters-say-labour-is-the-party-of-quinoa
The quinoa story relates to a discussion had with a tiny number of people in a focus group in Crewe
It was called out for being a caricature then and has now been recycled.
Of course caricatures only work if there is as it were a grain of truth in them and for a more entertaining view see George Orwell’s Road to Wigan Pier.
Meanwhile my local craft bar in Tottenham (Labour majority 76%) serves a lot of pie and mash with pints of beer. That’s a sort of stereotype too of course
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