Puddy_Tat 'i can't be bothered to find / embed tweets, but one or two of today's pictures are doing the rounds with something along the lines of "of course, corbyn only appeals to a small, middle class, london elite'
I saw one piece saying that a lot of the joiners were stjdents, as if it were a bad thing. I know a wide variety of classes, ethnicity, occupations who joined, including students but id love to know why people sneer at folk for being young and persuing an education. A lot of people who sneer at 'middle class' are middle class themselves, its thus a form of self hstred. Theres a logic in deriding 'middle-class leftie' that anyone who by accident of birth had a relatively lucky start should really be a tory, and that giving a shit for others is a form of treachery
They refined the terms in the USA. Working class is called middle class.
I'm working class sort-of. I make shit my company sells, a lot of it to the US. I make software. I often go home with a headache because it is difficult. I am one of the few that helps to improve the daft metrics about imports/exports.
I didn't have a union helping me when we all got sacked last time, or when I was forced to work though the night and at weekends. Unison should figure what made Joe Hill tick. Then they should do what he was doing knowing they aren't likely to be shot yet.
I get better pay than my friend at Starbucks, but she doesn't get bullied like that.
I am comfortable in my current job, and they were good when I was sick. I am still being payed what I was 8 years ago.
I'd count myself in the labour aristocracy. With all the shit that implies, with only a little credit for having a decent job. Be nice if I had a house, but my ex needed that to bring up my kids. You don't get a pension in the little companies, or extensions of anerican compaies that apparently are so important.
I thought Thatch was going to decimate the public sector. As it works out I should have got a council job or been a plasterer. People wonder why they can't get STEM graduates? It is because they aren't payed properly and are sneered at. Theses digital marketeers wouldn't know a digit even they have a prostate test.
Bring it on. I have nothing to lose, and making the world a better place is my reward.
I don't have it bad, but it is shit if this is as good as it gets working my arse off for 30 years being creative as well as skilled in my field.
Sod it. I've not tried acid yet.
