Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

blue labour

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.56 in modern English

Syllables: blue labour
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

1

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A political tendency advocating the belief that working-class voters will be won back to Labour through socially conservative ideas on certain issues.

British usage

Example Sentences

"It doesn't take a genius to see that its hostility towards statism, in the context of economic crisis and austerity, could provide useful ideological cover for an assault on welfare. Blue Labour thinking, here, converges seamlessly with Cameron's “big society”."

Etymology

Coined by Maurice Glasman in 2009.

Usage

British usage

Questions

What does blue labour mean?: A political tendency advocating the belief that working-class voters will be won back to Labour through socially conservative ideas on certain issues.
Where does blue labour come from?: Coined by Maurice Glasman in 2009.

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