The Tory party is giving us an object lesson in "culture war-ification": free school meals are an economic issue - now they're being elided with criminality and fecklessness 1/ it's not random or accidental ...

2/ and now the Tory MPs are claiming cultural victimhood - "poor little public school educated me, being hounded by the plebs"... when their supporters *still* stand outside Parliament harassing left MPs/ journalists...

3/ It shows the futility of the mantra "don't fight the culture war": their attack on BLM, anticapitalism in schools, Critical Race Theory, "activist lawyers" etc an intelligent fightback but can't be ignored...

4/ For certain "don't fight elections as a culture war" but the labour movement is formed around values and solidarity... it's why the word scab exists... we're up against the talk radio shows and the far right Telegram channels: silence is not a strategy

5/ The practical solidarity over school@meals being shown by councils, volunteers and unions is the best answer to that calculatedly cynical MPs letter: class solidarity and defiant humanitarianism towards those suffering