Throughout this country's history there have of course been systematic efforts to create an official underclass.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
This awful concept of underclass is really horrifying. You're not lower class, you are excluded - outside.
I don't like class distinction, and there is far too much of that in England.
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
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.
Class is not a fixed designation in this country. We are an upwardly mobile society with a lot of movement between income groups.
It is a dark, unspoken truth that the powerful - the 'ruling class' - make up the rules as they go along.
Even now it is no longer composed of the traditional political class, but of a composite layer of corporate leaders, high-level administrators, and the heads of the major professional, labor, political, and religious organisations.
In the U.K., there is a sort of obsession with class.
I'm seen as a chronicler of the class system, which I don't think is unfair.
Put simply, no one in state government can create new specially protected classes except the General Assembly with the concurrence of the Governor.