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" In 1993, Clare and I moved with our two young daughters to Chichester in West Sussex, seeking a better quality of life and state education with fewer black children around." /marckee

I can only assume this article is aimed at people who emigrated 30 years ago or something, given it's like social analysis 101.

Well except for that fact that he's measuring things the wrong way. This idea that the middle classes are in trouble is really just the elastic snapping back after the effects of WWII on class and society's structure, I reckon.

But as one commenter pointed out, even if the middle classes can't afford homes etc, we do all have access to a lot more technology, etc. We may not have loads of money comparative to the generation before but we have completely different costs. We spend more frivolously but at the same time we can get away with spending less. If you want to read a book you can almost certainly buy it for 1p + postage on Amazon.

Dunno, I think the issue is about realining thoughts. Or you need a proper fucking revolution to bring down the 'ruling classes'. I'm up for that too.

then I guess that he is middle class, yes. By any other measure he has always, throughout his life, been part of the 1%.

I don't think he realises just how much it's the 'fault' of his generation that this problem persists, for subscribing to the neo-liberal pursuit of wealth and abusing their position to transfer wealth from all of those below them, whether in age or class, to themselves.

without directly implicating Blair. It's under his tenure that social divisions in the UK spiralled out of control - and his policies actively fuelled it.

I thought the article pretty good myself. Although I do find myself confused by the idea that we should be automatically entitled to a better lot/more wealth than our parents had. Why is this always inherently assumed?