Phillips isn't working class either.
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Scullery maids don't pay their husbands £50K PA, their mothers aren't NHS CEOs, and they don't have the time or dishonesty to pretend they're something they're not.
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I think though the elite probably view her on that level. People like me they view as well beneath that. They see me as scum, like something unsavoury they had trod on, someone who shouldn't even exist.
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Struggle to articulate my thoughts but feels like the commonly accepted definition of class in this country probably isn't up to the job if someone from Jess Philips' background gets to call themselves working class.
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That survey a few decades ago was a very sociological solution, ie there were far too many categories for it to catch on. Traditional definition doesn't feel it works in a mostly post-industrial society where the working class seems replaced with the precariat & expanded "middle"
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Nor do they usually have NHS CEO as their mother...
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As one of notable alumni of Godolphin and Latymer School I'm sure
@zoesqwilliams can normally be trusted on her class-dar sensibilities and@jessphillips does play the pet-prole so well - ask anyone who attended the Spectator birthday party.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Nor are they generally self-publicists using fellow rightwingers at the Guardian to publicise themselves. Nor are they usually middleclass pretending to be working-class. (Spoiler alert: she's trying to avoid deselection the only way she knows but it turns members off even more).
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