Values, Voice and Virtue: The New British Politics

I have started to buy books which set out different world views, I like to be challenged and to either change my world view or understand better why I hold my views.This book is well written, has a lot of facts and figures that you can research and test. It makes a compelling argument that the people who form the institutions of the country have very different values from the average person in the street and that leads to many problems and challenges.I don’t think that you have to agree with the views in the book but if you want to see a different world view clearly argued then you should probably read this.

Written buy a person who has his finger on the pulse.

This is an important book, in that it draws attention to some serious issues, and provides references and documentation relating to them. Issues concerning the neglect of people from working class backgrounds, and the lack of diversity of opinion in universities, seem to me among the more serious.However, the book seems to me naive in many respects, of which two are particularly pressing:(i) All kinds of things are treated in terms of preferences, but in ways that ignore the degree to which structural changes have affected the economy and the fabric of society, in ways which constrain what policies can sensibly be adopted, and where these, in turn, may mean that certain preferences can't be satisfied. Obvious constraints, here, include such things as shifting patterns of employment (with the loss of manufacturing industry also leading to the dramatic decline of associated unions); demographic changes; and Robert Putnam's concerns about the falling-off in participation in voluntary associations.(ii) The author, it seems to me, is not taking seriously the consequences of the massive growth of tertiary education. It is fine to remind us that, in the past, Trades Union leaders became key political actors without having had much formal education. But, these days, kids of high ability typically have the chance to attend university, while entry into Oxbridge and Russell Group universities is in principle much more open. If this is the case, then to complain that there is domination of positions by people with a university education is an odd claim to make - not least because areas in which there are good employment possibilities typically demand advanced education.One can certainly argue that it is important that issues of concern to the bulk of the population should be addressed by policy-makers. But to expect this to be being done by people who don't have a university background, just looks naive.

Goodwin's book is readable, well researched and frighteningly accurate about the state of politics and power in the UK today. It explains how the old aristocracy who had a stake in the land and their sons fought and died in great numbers during WW1 have been replaced by middle class, privileged, entitled fanatics who think they have found the universal truth that everyone must follow. Unlike the old aristocracy if international conflict came to the UK their sons and daughters would be off, probably to Montecito!The new elite has 3 bigotries: 1) Anti White and anti Jewish racism (White privilege etc) ;2) Anti male sexism (toxic masculinity) 3) Anti older person ageism (Karens and Gammons).They have no problem with political violence engendered by disgraceful language such as Tory Scum and even worse, Tory (unt but are horrified by mis gendering!They are quite comfortable with subjecting a Working Class woman and 4 boys including one with autism to a virtual sharia court and also in prosecuting a Christian for silent prayer.They have no problem with the democratic deficit of the EU and also with the denial of democracy to the majority who voted for Brexit (calling them as many insults and abuse as they could invent) whilst actively attempting to subvert the will of the people who voted Leave. This is of course, their most duplicitous hypocrisy.Their many hypocrisies also include condemning the old aristocrats for protecting their own interests whilst making sure their own children follow them into the arts, academia and professions; the NEPO children. These middle class, privileged juveniles who male up the bulk of the so called "Social justice" activists will inherit mummy and daddy's wealth, houses and pensions allowing them to continue sneering at ordinary working people.How on earth was George Orwell once and icon of this mob? After all they believe "Four legs good; two legs better"

Matthew Goodwin and his book demonstrate with facts something we all know to be true; that those in positions of power are a clique of Oxbridge middle class socialists far removed from the reality of life that 90% of the population live.Matthew proves that point with multiple examples that not only are these elites not interested in the people of this country but many actually despise us!From the BBC to the media and the government, this 10% are deliberately wrecking our country and have contempt for British (especially English) institutions and culture.Matthew shows how most of these institutions have also been infiltrated by these Oxbridge cliques, who are actively dismantling everything that is good about this country.Matthew has written a book that should be in every household across the country.It is a fantastic exposé of the snobbery and contempt that the new elites feel for the 'proles', and are in the process of vandalizing this country once and for all.

I wish I had Matthew Goodwin ‘s brains and clarity of thought. Gives you a clear understanding of what’s has happened to us in the past and possibly what may happen to Great Britain. I wish a few politicians would read this book.

Values, Voice and Virtue: The New British Politics - excellent !

Terrific book packed with research and citations by a professor, but quite an easy read (none of the invented garbage language and grammar used by so many American professors). The author's analysis of current British politics is remarkably similar to the "populist" movements in most of the West--if by populist you mean that elected officials should actually listen to their voters and institute policies that the vast majority want, and not impose and enforce the pseudo-elite's extreme beliefs while taking every step possible to censor, silence and criminalize the 80%. There are many references to the US. If anything, as the author points out, Britain is not yet as extreme as the US...but its leaders have every intention to catch up.

Sinceramente de Matt solo podemos esperar un gran libro. Análisis concretos, con datos y estadísticas y con el concepto de “nueva elite” completamente extrapolable a lo que sucede en España. Para analizar y tener siempre a mano!