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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
Anyway, wasn't it Labour that introduced 'beer and sandwiches'?
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The tabloid press introduced the term as a disparaging way of describing trade union leaders meeting the PM at 10 Downing Street. The idea being that they couldn’t tolerate lunch at a table with a knife and fork and (supposedly) demanded the fayre they would expect at their working men’s club back home.
It’s a crude class stereotype, whether it has any basis in fact as far as negotiations in Downing Street in the 1970s are concerned, I have no idea. It certainly would have no basis in fact now. Trade unions, based on their recent public pronouncements at least, have largely abandoned working people in favour of faddish identitarian causes.