In Defence of Liverpool
Boris Johnson is right to hate Liverpool — its proud history of working class struggle is the antithesis of everything he represents.
Thousands of dockers attend a strike meeting outside the Transport and General Workers’ Union headquarters in Christian Street, Liverpool. (Photo by Charlie Owens / Daily Mirror / Mirrorpix / Getty Images.)
‘A combination of economic misfortune — its docks were, fundamentally, on the wrong side of England when Britain entered what is now the European Union — and an excessive predilection for welfarism have created a peculiar, and deeply unattractive, psyche among many Liverpudlians.’ That’s the city of my birth, of my childhood, of my first job — where […]