English Dictionary

Blue Labour

固有名詞

イギリス英語

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

日本語の意味

（UK政治）労働党に対し、一定の社会的保守的価値観を通して労働者階級の有権者を引き戻すことを主張する政治的傾向

Blue Labour argues that the Labour Party can win back working-class voters by embracing socially conservative ideas on certain issues.

労働党内の、特定の問題で社会的に保守的な考え方を掲げて労働者階級の有権者の支持を取り戻そうとする傾向は、党がそうした立場を採用すれば支持を回復できると主張している。

意味（1）

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

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”.