Corbyn’s Labour coalition fractured along generational and geographic lines over Brexit

Evidence

But their views did not always match those of the older, more traditional working-class constituencies that left-wing populists held close to their hearts. This became all too apparent in Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party, where a shaky coalition of working-class people in the North and urban millennials in the South began to fracture over the Brexit issue. A disjunction with the remaining post-industrial working class, together with an overly fluid party structure, meant that it was almost impossible to muster a majoritarian coalition. The age-old dilemma of social democracy (“working class” versus “middle class”) was now superimposed on the new organizational dilemma of the 2010s (“either too left or too populist”). — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment, 30

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Corbyn’s Brexit ambiguity embodied the left’s cross-class coalition dilemma — Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics: Extreme Politicization…, 212; Similarly, analyzing ‘demography jihad’ can lend a greater understanding to current events including Brexit, the election of President Trump, and ‘Muslim Ban 2.0.’ The concept of baby jihad plays an important role in anti-Muslim propaganda through both Europe and North America. Baby jihad strikes at the heart of white nationalist fears.; Leave voters’ dismay shows Brexit was not real working-class agency — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 2044

Broader Connections

• Corbyn’s Brexit ambiguity embodied the left’s cross-class coalition dilemma #complicates (0.85) — Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics, 212
• Similarly, analyzing ‘demography jihad’ can lend a greater understanding to current events including Brexit, the election of President Trump, and ‘Muslim Ban 2.0.’ The concept of baby jihad plays… #complicates (0.75)
• Leave voters’ dismay shows Brexit was not real working-class agency #corroborates (0.75) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2044