Look, there is a sort of old view about class which is a very simplistic view that we have got the working class, the middle class and the upper class, I think it is more complicated than that.
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The working class of England today have no vision of society beyond the acquisitive - no version of themselves or their habits as anything other than transitional, on their way up or on their way out. The working class, at best, is a waiting room for people who aim to become middle class if possible.
There is a process of social and of political differentiation going on in the real working class all the time.
The working class has been turned into a consuming class - a situation has been created where people value their worth by what they can afford.
The middle class, one of the great achievements in history, is becoming more of a relic than a reality.
It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class, and to force society into an organization of only two classes, one at each social extreme.
They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.
Everything is about class in England, whether it's upper, lower or middle. Why should that be?
We have a myth of the classless society. You won't hear an American politician apart from Bernie Sanders talk about the working class. We are all middle class, apparently.
I just think the whole discussion of class is wrong. It's not what we do here in America. I don't think there's anything called 'middle class values' that are different from the values of other people in this country.
Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.