Are you working class and proud of it?

[tinyjo]

Listening to the Today programme this morning I hear that apparently about 60% of people agree with the statement "I'm working class and proud of it". They had a couple of people on to discuss this, one of whom tried to define what it meant to be working class by suggesting that it was all about your family connections (he claimed Cherie Blair was working class because she lived close to her mum for childcare) in some nebulous fashion.

The whole thing struck me as rather odd. When I think of class, I tend to think of education at least for the lower 2 - nearly everyone who's been to university is at least middle class by the end of it while those people who never did any work then left after their GCSEs are generally working class.

So, what do you think?

[Poll #54709]

Comments

Re: classes/status

[jinty]

Class and status are *traditionally* mixed up in England, my dear.

And people are traditionally defined by their class -- either by themselves or others or of course both. Why fight against several centuriesworth of definitions? Hah he.

Re: classes/status

[dotty.livejournal.com]

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<Why fight against several centuriesworth of definitions? >
Maybe because it is such an old ideology, therefore not relevant to today's changing world!