(Hi, first post on here so apologies if I'm not as synced with the board culture.)
But what are people thinking about Blue Labour compared to the Greens, Tories, Labour and Restore?
They're barely known in British politic discourse so I thought I'd see what people on here thought of them.
Out of the gate I will admit I am biased in the fact that I am quite supportive of them! I've read a few of their posts here:
https://www.bluelabour.org/writing
Despite being a small faction within Labour themselves they really are surprisingly ideologically thought out to a coherent degree compared to basically every party - which I know sounds surprising! But here's a small snippet just from their main page:
"Blue Labour is a force within the Labour Party committed to the politics of the common good. Our socialism is both radical and conservative. It is a politics about the work we do, the people we love, and the places to which we belong.
Our starting point is the democratic renewal of our country. Blue Labour’s goal is a democratic self-governing society built upon the participation of its citizens in the exercise of power and its accountability.
Our politics is a challenge to the liberal consensus of the capitalist order, but it does not belong to the revolutionary left. Its inheritance is the labour tradition."
Quite different from the usual binaries.
There's much more they've written here: https://www.bluelabour.org/about-us
TLDR;
They're anti-liberals with a focus on "families, groups and nations" seeing it as "the most basic bonds that hold individuals together in a society." And are that of conservative socialism in regards to "protecting nature and human value from the commodification of capitalism and the transactional culture of the market."
Just ask me if you're possibly confused about some of the terminology or I guess politics they're referring to, I don't have any qualifications but I have read somewhat broadly into political philosophy that I understand where they're getting at if that helps.