I was just posting on the National Trust thread and commenting about people being deterred from bettering themselves.
It brought me to a certain thought.
The Labour Party runs, at the moment, on jealousy - why should someone have something that you don't.
But it goes further than that. There's a lot of virtue-signalling on social media about being 'working class' or 'not betraying my working-class roots'.
Any concept of social mobility is scorned - especially by those who've 'made it'.
The problem is that many of those in the upper reaches of the Labour Party are from comfortable middle-class backgrounds. Yet any aspiration is 'traitorous'.
So, the supposed party of aspiration is the party which is the one least keen on aspiration.
How can it ever claim to be the party of working people.
...just some jumbled thoughts, put up for discussion.
It brought me to a certain thought.
The Labour Party runs, at the moment, on jealousy - why should someone have something that you don't.
But it goes further than that. There's a lot of virtue-signalling on social media about being 'working class' or 'not betraying my working-class roots'.
Any concept of social mobility is scorned - especially by those who've 'made it'.
The problem is that many of those in the upper reaches of the Labour Party are from comfortable middle-class backgrounds. Yet any aspiration is 'traitorous'.
So, the supposed party of aspiration is the party which is the one least keen on aspiration.
How can it ever claim to be the party of working people.
...just some jumbled thoughts, put up for discussion.