Here it is from two diametrically opposed newspapers
To this I will add my own anecdotal story.
in 2005 I went to a very lavish party at the home of a very rich founder of a very notorious recruitment group (it has the number "3" in it). As I bade farewell to my host someone asked him who he was going to vote for at the forthcoming election. He clearly hadnt really thought about it as he began to talk about his working class background. Eventually the "boy done good from Tooting" said that he would vote labour "on behalf of the friends that he grew up with".
Now why would he do such a thing when most of the working classes have grown up in an appalling environment that entirely relies on the state for its (poor) education, its inability to suppress crime (funny that most criminals are products of the state). After all he himself would never send his own kids to Tooting comp, nor would he be seen dead (if you will pardon the pun) in the outpatients waiting room of St Georges when he lives bang next door to one of the most exclusive private hospitals in Britain.
Furthermore does he ever stop and think or care even about how his tax is spent in helping those who are not as well off as he is. No for him to vote labour is an entirely selfish uncaring act to make himself feel better without having to make any sacrifices. "There there I voted labour sio I am one of you". Hating Thatcher is another outlet for middle class guilt; To voice hatred of her is a "right on" soft option for those (who have so enriched themselves from the freedoms that she won) wishing to give their conscience some sort of moral integrity without having to make any personal sacrifices to help out the less fortunate than themselves.
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/...lub_rules.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/m.../10/do1002.xml
To this I will add my own anecdotal story.
in 2005 I went to a very lavish party at the home of a very rich founder of a very notorious recruitment group (it has the number "3" in it). As I bade farewell to my host someone asked him who he was going to vote for at the forthcoming election. He clearly hadnt really thought about it as he began to talk about his working class background. Eventually the "boy done good from Tooting" said that he would vote labour "on behalf of the friends that he grew up with".
Now why would he do such a thing when most of the working classes have grown up in an appalling environment that entirely relies on the state for its (poor) education, its inability to suppress crime (funny that most criminals are products of the state). After all he himself would never send his own kids to Tooting comp, nor would he be seen dead (if you will pardon the pun) in the outpatients waiting room of St Georges when he lives bang next door to one of the most exclusive private hospitals in Britain.
Furthermore does he ever stop and think or care even about how his tax is spent in helping those who are not as well off as he is. No for him to vote labour is an entirely selfish uncaring act to make himself feel better without having to make any sacrifices. "There there I voted labour sio I am one of you". Hating Thatcher is another outlet for middle class guilt; To voice hatred of her is a "right on" soft option for those (who have so enriched themselves from the freedoms that she won) wishing to give their conscience some sort of moral integrity without having to make any personal sacrifices to help out the less fortunate than themselves.
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/...lub_rules.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/m.../10/do1002.xml
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