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Just reading this interview with Keir Starmer and it's funny how he's absolutely got the number of the people in this thread:
“It reached a point where Labour has, in the past, appeared as if it knew better than working people, and almost in a sort of condescending manner was telling people what they should think and what they should do,” he said.
you can tell how "working class" the potential election winners are by the fact the probable PM has a knighthood.
Counterpoint: no, you can't.
Maybe they should act a bit more like it then
Pray tell, how should the oiks act?
Sorry the proles aren't behaving the way you'd like, boss.
That's more like it!
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The infamous photo of David Cameron and Boris Johnson at Oxford University’s elitist Bullingdon Club emerged in 2007, 20 years after it was taken.
Cameron’s “coalition of millionaires” was crammed with private school alumni, including the chancellor George Osborne, who wielded the austerity axe.
More recently, a majority of Rishi Sunak’s first cabinet were from private schools, according to figures published in 2022 by the Sutton Trust, a social mobility charity.
Shadow foreign secretary David Lammy echoed this last week when he criticised “a certain kind of public-school smallness” he witnessed among Conservatives.
“I think they’re scared of a backlash, aren’t they?,” said Charlotte Hughes, a campaigner against poverty and benefits cuts, who is also active in her local Labour branch in Greater Manchester.
Their recent experience of precarious work, benefit claims and mouldy housing will be from people turning up at their constituency surgeries.
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