Classism
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Tories presenting themselves as working class
158 MPs consider themselves blue-collar and that includes a third of them who went to fee-paying schools like Eton, one who claimed to be a lorry driver but who’s father and grandfather were knights of the realm, another boasted of being self-employed …as a QC.
Any lie will do to capture the working class vote.
There’s obviously a lot of self-serving dissembling in what they say and I don’t care two hoots about MPs as a group but being a Tory MP doesn’t necessarily make you a capitalist. We in the WSM consider people to be working class who aren’t generally thought to be so, including presumably the highly paid “upper middle class”. Most would find that hard to swallow.
Remember this non-entity from last year and his claim at the Tory party’s conference?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-politics-49884017
and this from the year before?
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/apr/17/conservatives-workers-party-robert-halfon
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