If corporate elites want to prosper, they need to get back to their core business of providing quality goods and services to the punters and get out of the virtue signalling game.
I was in Versailles in early 2017 with Madeleine Albright. She was complaining bitterly of the unfairness of Donald Trump’s election victory over Hillary Clinton. It was populism, Fox News, the Russians, fake news on social media. Ah yes, I said. And your candidate was flawless and Obama’s eight years without fault. Silly people.
Instead of attacking the people who are against them – Hillary Clinton called them the deplorables – or descending into hyperbolic abuse, the establishment might reflect on its own performance and whether what it is doing isn’t irritating and alienating vast sections of the community.New polling in Britain says a great deal about this problem.
People who follow politics won’t be surprised that middle-class, educated and prosperous voters split almost 50-50 on these two propositions, whereas working people massively favoured the government prioritising the cost of living.Then there is the issue of immigration. Britain is one of the world’s most multicultural countries. Not surprisingly, there is little resistance to immigration per se. There is, however, substantial resistance to uncontrolled and illegal immigration.
It is worth Australia thinking about this. The establishment of big business, the political class, trade unions, academics and the media has been strutting its stuff over recent months. There’s the government with its sweetheart deals with big corporations such as Qantas; there are the big corporations supporting stridently the government’s Voice campaign; there are the elites swooning over; there are the elites pouring billions into the world’s most virtuous white elephant, Snowy Hydro 2.0.
If the Albanese government wants to remain in office for the long period it plans, it will have to connect with the concerns of the mainstream and set aside some of these elite preoccupations. I know that will cause tensions within the Labor Party, but the alternative is the public will abandon it – and not necessarily for the Liberals.
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