I1L2T3 Posted August 24, 2013 Share Posted August 24, 2013 For all Labour's talk of the squeezed middle are they actually right after all http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2401122/Marry-Buy-house-Work-hard-save-Its-life-generations-took-granted-But-says-leading-historian-seismic-change-way--The-death-middle-classes.html Not often the Daily Mail does doom as well as it. I think there is something in it. How many families are bustin' their balls trying to keep up the pretence of still being middle class? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longcol Posted August 24, 2013 Share Posted August 24, 2013 Where it tries to do facts it gets it spectacularly wrong. £60k required for a deposit for a first time buyer to buy a house outside London? Does the Mail imagine the middle classes are confined to the stockbroker belts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeMaquis Posted August 24, 2013 Share Posted August 24, 2013 The disappearance of the middle-class. What a lovely thought. The greed of the middle-class, especially over house prices, has finally caught up with them. They've been pandered to by Thatcherite Tory and Labour governments for over 30 years and it's killing them. Ha ha. They should try being working class. At least they're tough enough to survive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chem1st Posted August 24, 2013 Share Posted August 24, 2013 Too many rentiers and rents are too high. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Obelix Posted August 24, 2013 Share Posted August 24, 2013 Too many handwringers, still at least high rents keep them out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ridgeway84 Posted August 24, 2013 Share Posted August 24, 2013 The disappearance of the middle-class. What a lovely thought. The greed of the middle-class, especially over house prices, has finally caught up with them. They've been pandered to by Thatcherite Tory and Labour governments for over 30 years and it's killing them. Ha ha. They should try being working class. At least they're tough enough to survive. Are you an invented persona? It's just that you come straight from central casting as Student Grant leftie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eccentric Posted August 25, 2013 Share Posted August 25, 2013 Blast... Does the death of the middle classes herald the disappearance of asparagus, Radio 4 and drinking wine? Well, I aintn’t not joining no social club, I isn’t! And I hate lager! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rupert_Baehr Posted August 25, 2013 Share Posted August 25, 2013 The disappearance of the middle-class. What a lovely thought. ... They'll probably emigrate (those who haven't done so already.) Taking all the jobs they produce with them. They should try being working class. At least they're tough enough to survive. Hopefully they'll be tough enough to generate their own jobs when there's nobody to do that for them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mecky Posted August 25, 2013 Share Posted August 25, 2013 Never believed in the middle class, "I'm better than you, but not him," lark. You either have to work or you don't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jam on it Posted August 25, 2013 Share Posted August 25, 2013 Never believed in the middle class, "I'm better than you, but not him," lark. You either have to work or you don't. Some people say that class's, or "categories" of people don't actually exist, but its self evident they do exist; people do individually and collectively pursue certain interests and those that have similar interests, do, whether they do it consciously or not, gravitate towards one another both socially and professionally thus forming a "class". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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