You'd think Reform would be delighted that a white, working class plumber got elected and they beat the metropolitan elite university lecturer.
February 27, 2026 at 9:35 AM
You'd think Reform would be delighted that a white, working class plumber got elected and they beat the metropolitan elite university lecturer.
In order to understand UK politics in 2026 you must realise that a plumber & plasterer doesn't represent the interests of the working class because she is left-wing but a wealthy broadcaster & former academic does represent the interests of the working class because he is right-wing. Hope this helps
a less affluent suburb of manchester just elected a plumber & those who insist we listen to the working class are furious
turns out it doesn't count if you're pro-trans & pro-immigration
turns out it doesn't count if you're pro-trans & pro-immigration
March 1, 2026 at 1:17 PM
In order to understand UK politics in 2026 you must realise that a plumber & plasterer doesn't represent the interests of the working class because she is left-wing but a wealthy broadcaster & former academic does represent the interests of the working class because he is right-wing. Hope this helps
a less affluent suburb of manchester just elected a plumber & those who insist we listen to the working class are furious
turns out it doesn't count if you're pro-trans & pro-immigration
turns out it doesn't count if you're pro-trans & pro-immigration
March 1, 2026 at 1:06 PM
a less affluent suburb of manchester just elected a plumber & those who insist we listen to the working class are furious
turns out it doesn't count if you're pro-trans & pro-immigration
turns out it doesn't count if you're pro-trans & pro-immigration
the majority of the working class in the US is female, and the US working class is disproportionately members of minoritized groups and immigrants
it’s not Joe the Plumber (who was neither Joe nor a plumber)
it’s not Joe the Plumber (who was neither Joe nor a plumber)
May 5, 2026 at 9:41 PM
the majority of the working class in the US is female, and the US working class is disproportionately members of minoritized groups and immigrants
it’s not Joe the Plumber (who was neither Joe nor a plumber)
it’s not Joe the Plumber (who was neither Joe nor a plumber)
You must understand:
Lily, who works doing data analysis for the University of Bristol and lives in a house share is middle class.
Brian, her landlord, who is a self employed plumber declaring around a third of his income is working class.
Lily, who works doing data analysis for the University of Bristol and lives in a house share is middle class.
Brian, her landlord, who is a self employed plumber declaring around a third of his income is working class.
This is just an incredibly verbose paraphrase of "lanyard class", isn't it?
May 22, 2026 at 12:13 PM
You must understand:
Lily, who works doing data analysis for the University of Bristol and lives in a house share is middle class.
Brian, her landlord, who is a self employed plumber declaring around a third of his income is working class.
Lily, who works doing data analysis for the University of Bristol and lives in a house share is middle class.
Brian, her landlord, who is a self employed plumber declaring around a third of his income is working class.
Left - Green candidate 💚
Hannah Spencer, working class plumber and greater Manchester through and through.
(Far) Right - Reform UK candidate 🟣
Racist anti-academic from St Albans.
Your choice Gorton & Denton
Hannah Spencer, working class plumber and greater Manchester through and through.
(Far) Right - Reform UK candidate 🟣
Racist anti-academic from St Albans.
Your choice Gorton & Denton
January 30, 2026 at 9:48 AM
Left - Green candidate 💚
Hannah Spencer, working class plumber and greater Manchester through and through.
(Far) Right - Reform UK candidate 🟣
Racist anti-academic from St Albans.
Your choice Gorton & Denton
Hannah Spencer, working class plumber and greater Manchester through and through.
(Far) Right - Reform UK candidate 🟣
Racist anti-academic from St Albans.
Your choice Gorton & Denton
So these foreign islamists voted for a white working class English female plumber.
March 1, 2026 at 6:19 AM
So these foreign islamists voted for a white working class English female plumber.
Want a definition of fighting elitism: a working class plumber beating an ivory tower academic who has his own TV show on a channel owned by a billionaire
February 27, 2026 at 8:19 AM
Want a definition of fighting elitism: a working class plumber beating an ivory tower academic who has his own TV show on a channel owned by a billionaire
Just take a second to think how Labour would talk about being beaten by a plumber from a working class background in Bolton if they were a man.
Since I saw the phrase “Everything is gender” I have become convinced that everything is indeed gender
Good analysis by Ben, my only addition is that I think psychologically Labour cannot accept that their median voter is closer to Hannah Spencer: still young, well off but still renting, female, and socially liberal than it is their desired median voter: Lee Anderson, and that is because of misogyny.
February 27, 2026 at 4:18 PM
Just take a second to think how Labour would talk about being beaten by a plumber from a working class background in Bolton if they were a man.
How could a middle class plumber possibly be more working class than me, the heir to an humble baronet? ~ Venison Grouse-Partridge for the Telegraph
February 27, 2026 at 8:34 AM
How could a middle class plumber possibly be more working class than me, the heir to an humble baronet? ~ Venison Grouse-Partridge for the Telegraph
Facebook commenters just can't except that someone who works as a plumber can be leftwing.
The contempt that shows for working class people is staggering.
The contempt that shows for working class people is staggering.
February 9, 2026 at 5:29 PM
Facebook commenters just can't except that someone who works as a plumber can be leftwing.
The contempt that shows for working class people is staggering.
The contempt that shows for working class people is staggering.
What is the working class? Many invoke it in this election, but no one defines it. How much is it economic, when a plumber can make 10x as much as adjunct professor? How much is it cultural/an identity, or the kind of labor? Why so many 1930s white-guy versions when so many are women and BIPOC?
November 26, 2024 at 7:13 PM
What is the working class? Many invoke it in this election, but no one defines it. How much is it economic, when a plumber can make 10x as much as adjunct professor? How much is it cultural/an identity, or the kind of labor? Why so many 1930s white-guy versions when so many are women and BIPOC?
A plumber who left school at 16 means the left behind white working class are unrepresented.
The palest woman you’ve ever seen in your life wins a by-election.
This is anti-white voting.
This is anti-white voting.
February 27, 2026 at 7:19 AM
A plumber who left school at 16 means the left behind white working class are unrepresented.
in the discourse around the Green by-election candidate being a plumber, you can really see how much ‘working class’ in a UK context just means ‘racist’ like 90% of the time
February 1, 2026 at 5:24 PM
in the discourse around the Green by-election candidate being a plumber, you can really see how much ‘working class’ in a UK context just means ‘racist’ like 90% of the time
You can be a Doctor or a Lawyer and be Working Class.
And you can be a builder or a plumber and NOT be Working Class.
And you can be a builder or a plumber and NOT be Working Class.
February 2, 2026 at 4:22 PM
You can be a Doctor or a Lawyer and be Working Class.
And you can be a builder or a plumber and NOT be Working Class.
And you can be a builder or a plumber and NOT be Working Class.
Platner? Really? And another thing: can a guy not put on a jacket? My “working class” plumber shows up looking more professional — and without nazi tattoos — than this. See Fetterman.
March 1, 2026 at 2:42 PM
Platner? Really? And another thing: can a guy not put on a jacket? My “working class” plumber shows up looking more professional — and without nazi tattoos — than this. See Fetterman.
This kind of stuff isn’t going to work when the new Green MP is a white working class plumber.
February 27, 2026 at 7:03 AM
This kind of stuff isn’t going to work when the new Green MP is a white working class plumber.
"so a local plumber came out of nowhere to win a working class seat in the north of england?"
yep, flipped a massive, historic lab majority
"man, this dude must be the most bigoted mf alive"
actually . . .
yep, flipped a massive, historic lab majority
"man, this dude must be the most bigoted mf alive"
actually . . .
April 20, 2026 at 8:49 PM
"so a local plumber came out of nowhere to win a working class seat in the north of england?"
yep, flipped a massive, historic lab majority
"man, this dude must be the most bigoted mf alive"
actually . . .
yep, flipped a massive, historic lab majority
"man, this dude must be the most bigoted mf alive"
actually . . .
Curiously working class people prefer to vote for a local plumber than a parachuted in millionaire from a party of washed up former Conservatives
Nigel Farage’s Long History of Crying ‘Fraud’ Whenever His Party Loses Elections
Nigel Farage's Long History of Crying ‘Fraud’ Whenever His Party Loses Elections
The Reform UK leader has a long record of blaming his own party's election defeats on "cheating" by ethnic minorities, yet no evidence of it can ever be found
bylinetimes.com
March 3, 2026 at 5:28 PM
Curiously working class people prefer to vote for a local plumber than a parachuted in millionaire from a party of washed up former Conservatives
Vote Green today in Gorton and Denton.
Let’s have a working class woman representing a community that’s been forgotten by consecutive Labour and Conservative governments.
Good luck to our favourite plumber - Hannah Spencer.
Let’s have a working class woman representing a community that’s been forgotten by consecutive Labour and Conservative governments.
Good luck to our favourite plumber - Hannah Spencer.
February 26, 2026 at 10:03 AM
Vote Green today in Gorton and Denton.
Let’s have a working class woman representing a community that’s been forgotten by consecutive Labour and Conservative governments.
Good luck to our favourite plumber - Hannah Spencer.
Let’s have a working class woman representing a community that’s been forgotten by consecutive Labour and Conservative governments.
Good luck to our favourite plumber - Hannah Spencer.
there's this idea that the way we need to appeal to the working class is by valorizing working class as an identity and that just cannot possibly work. status is zero sum, you are not going to create a world where "plumber" is the noblest profession
August 18, 2026 at 9:39 PM
there's this idea that the way we need to appeal to the working class is by valorizing working class as an identity and that just cannot possibly work. status is zero sum, you are not going to create a world where "plumber" is the noblest profession
In the Gorton & Denton by-election, the quintessentially middle-class Green Party has Hannah Spencer, who left school at 16 to become a plumber, as its candidate, while Reform UK, voice of the disaffected working-class, is represented by Matt Goodwin, a former academic turned far-right TV presenter.
January 29, 2026 at 6:04 PM
In the Gorton & Denton by-election, the quintessentially middle-class Green Party has Hannah Spencer, who left school at 16 to become a plumber, as its candidate, while Reform UK, voice of the disaffected working-class, is represented by Matt Goodwin, a former academic turned far-right TV presenter.
Working Class jobs
❌plumber
❌heat pump fitter
❌plasterer
✅talking with an accent on TV
✅talking with an accent on podcasts
✅posting about how other people are middle class
❌plumber
❌heat pump fitter
❌plasterer
✅talking with an accent on TV
✅talking with an accent on podcasts
✅posting about how other people are middle class
in the discourse around the Green by-election candidate being a plumber, you can really see how much ‘working class’ in a UK context just means ‘racist’ like 90% of the time
February 1, 2026 at 11:26 PM
Working Class jobs
❌plumber
❌heat pump fitter
❌plasterer
✅talking with an accent on TV
✅talking with an accent on podcasts
✅posting about how other people are middle class
❌plumber
❌heat pump fitter
❌plasterer
✅talking with an accent on TV
✅talking with an accent on podcasts
✅posting about how other people are middle class