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Welcome to modern Britain. Making sacrifices is cheating. Success is rigged. Aspiration is boot-licking. The only socially acceptable form of success are gifts

• n4r9 4y ago
  Again, this misrepresents the argument. No one is saying anything about cheating or boot-licking. The issue is that too many MPs are wealthy career politicians with no experience of normal working life. Whilst the public school track into politics has always been an issue, even in Labour the number of MPs with a working class background has plummeted over the last few decades. The detachment from working class reality is at a point where the leader now explicitly instructs front-benchers not to attend strike pickets. Besides, isn't it more ambitious and impressive to have worked one's way into a position of political power without the silver spoon and elite connections? Look at Angela Rayner, a single mother and former care worker; Michael Gove, who worked his way up from an Aberdeen state school; or Dennis Skinner, who worked for 20 years a coal miner before representing Bolsover and giving Enoch Powell a run for his money in Parliament.