Britain's Labour Lessons For Obama | Newgeography.com

Britain's Labour Lessons For Obama | Newgeography.com

Joel Kotkin says the landslide defeat of Labour in local and European elections may mark "the decline of gentry liberalism." "Gentry liberalism - which reached its height in Britain earlier this decade and is currently peaking in the U.S. - melded traditional left-of-center constituencies, such as organized labor and ethnic minorities, with an expanding class of upper-class professionals from field like media, finance and technology."