This chapter examines the contemporary discourse of class and regionality within Britain, and traces its genealogy in nineteenth-century conceptions of the ‘respectable working class’ and the ‘residuum’, racial differentiation within Britain and Ireland, and colonial approaches to domestic others. Beginning with a discussion of the ‘Red Wall’ and the invocation of an inherently reactionary working-class and non-metropolitan voting bloc as the vanguard of nationalist populism, it examines the imperial entanglements of how class and region are construed in contemporary British politics and culture. Taking in the use of the colonial gaze in approaching the Irish diaspora and urban slums, the culture of Protestant evangelical philanthropy, and the imaginaries of racial threat, disgust and desire with which bourgeois culture and the popular press understood the urban scene in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this chapter draws these strands together in considering the hidden and not-so-hidden colonialities at play in present-day domestic politics.