Episode 158 - Pizzeriagate

The Guardian's North of England Editor Helen Pidd recently visited Leigh, an erstwhile "Red Wall" town that went Conservative in December's election, to interview first-time Tory voters from working class backgrounds, some of whom she had interviewed two months previously. One was a child who could not have voted for anybody, another an enormous racist, and the third, one Andrew Twentyman, an artisanal pizzeria owner (not worker), whose brother is a prominent local property developer. We talk about the row that ensued over a Guardian definition of "working class" that diverges wildly from any material analysis. Read the Guardian's mendacious little Tory puff piece here - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/jul/08/imagine-the-state-wed-be-in-if-corbyn-had-been-in-charge-the-view-from-the-red-wall And if you enjoyed the clips from GapeCast in this episode, listen to the instalment they're drawn from here: https://soundcloud.com/reelpolitikpodcast/gapes-grand-5g-conspiracy-gapecast-15