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Biden’s victory signals change
with working class communities with reminders of his working class background, the importance of family and being proud to be British. “Yet much like the Democrats in the US, Labour
is having to contend with members and activists who want far more radical change on issues such as reforming and defunding the police, addressing structural racism in the aftermath of the Black Lives Matters protests in 2020 and greater government control of the economy. “These policy positions may be difficult to
Joe Biden: Major implications, says professor
Joe Biden’s victory in the US presidential election could provide a blueprint for Labour and other centre-left European political parties to win back the support of their traditional heartlands, a leading professor has said. Harris Beider, professor of communities and
public policy at Birmingham City University, has carried out extensive research into the views of white working class populations in America and the UK, and believes Biden’s reclamation of the Rust Belt states could provide a model for Labour to win in the red wall constituencies. But Professor Beider warned that parties across
Europe still faced a challenge in reconnecting with voters in working class and left-behind communities who had become disenchanted with ‘business as usual’ politics. He said: “Biden’s success could have major
implications for centre left parties in Europe with many seeing their votes from working class
communities collapse and transfer to right wing populist parties in the last 10 years. “In the UK we have seen Labour lose four
elections in a row since 2010 and a gradual decline in votes from working class communities in the Midlands and the North. In between the outcome of the 2016 Brexit vote – often seen as the forerunner for the election of Donald Trump in the US 12 months later - became clear after decisive results to leave the European Union started being called in places such as Sunderland and Stoke. “Of course this trend has continued with the
heavy defeat of Labour in 2019 underscored by the Conservatives crumbling the ‘Red Wall’ seats in constituencies which had returned Labour MPs for decades. “The US election of 2020 demonstrates the
scale of the task facing Labour for 2024. “In Keir Starmer they have a leader who is projecting a values-based approach to connect
Miss Macaroon joins transatlantic talks
Social entrepreneur Rosie Ginday was Greater Birmingham’s representative in a transatlantic discussion on the success of female-owned businesses. The Miss Macaroon founder
joined business leaders from the United States and Norway for an event hosted by the North Carolina chapter of the British-American Business Council. Rosie runs Birmingham-based
Miss Macaroon, a social enterprise that invests its profits from macaroon sales to help unemployed young people gain skills and further employment.
She joined a panel of leaders
which included Melissa Carter of Innovate Carolina, Benedicte Raae from POW! Menstrual Cycle tracker app, Sally Webb Berry of The Special Event Company and Katie Shanahan Lindner, of the University of North Carolina’s (UNC) Center for European Studies. Talking points centred around
the starting successful female- owned businesses and advice for budding female entrepreneurs. Greater Birmingham
Transatlantic Chamber of Commerce – part of the BritishAmerican Business network -
44 CHAMBERLINK December 2020/January 2021 Transatlantic talks: Rosie Ginday
helped to facilitate Rosie’s participation in the event. Rosie said: “I was delighted to
join inspiring female entrepreneurs to talk about my start-up journey at Miss Macaroon. “Running a social enterprise that reinvests 100 per cent of its profits
in providing training and jobs for long-term unemployed young people with multiple and complex needs creates its own wins and challenges. “It was an honour to be able to
share these experiences with other female entrepreneurs.”
reconcile with winning votes in the Midlands and the North that Labour has to do if it has any chance in 2024. “And it should be noted that Biden
overperformed as a presidential candidate with Democrats in the House losing seats while in the Senate the Republicans still hold sway. Indeed some defeated candidates have already claimed that they lost because the Democrats were seen to take up positions such as defunding the police, which were unpopular on the ground.”
‘Biden’s success could have major implications for centre left parties in Europe’
Professor Beider published a book ‘The Other
America: White Working Class Perspectives on Race, Identity and Change,’ which interviewed more than 400 people from five US states, on what it means to be white, the challenges of selecting a president and future opportunities for building cross-racial coalitions. The fieldwork, which took place in the lead-up
to Donald Trump’s election as president, uncovered themes of anger and disenchantment as well as desire for economic and political change.
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