Jimmy Carr, the British comedian, made a sharp observation about a major political shift happening in the West. He traces it back to Hillary Clinton calling millions of Americans “deplorable.” From there, he says, traditional left-leaning parties started to change. In the UK, he argues the Labour Party —... once the party of the working man — has undergone a kind of “gentrification.” It no longer feels like it speaks to the average working guy (the “white van man”), who is now more likely to support Reform on the right. Carr wonders when exactly that switch happened, and whether this drift from working-class roots signals something bigger — possibly even the beginning of the end for classic liberalism. It’s one comedian’s blunt take, but it captures a tension you see playing out in many countries: parties moving away from their traditional base while voters quietly look for new options. As someone not from the UK, I found his framing interesting. Does this kind of shift feel familiar in your own country too, or do you see the reasons differently?show more

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