We were working class, and you don't lose that. Later on, I bolted on media middle class... and now people like me are in the House of Lords.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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'm painfully middle class.
I am hard-core middle class.
Everything the working class has been told to do, the rich do not do. That is my message.
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.
I still consider myself working class. I know my circumstances have changed dramatically since I was growing up back in Birkenhead.
If you asked anybody in my family, they would have very stridently proclaimed themselves middle class. My mother and father were separated, so he doesn't count.
When you grow up middle class, you just always feel like you've got to be working, or you won't be able to pay the bills.
I'm not part of a middle-class establishment. I'm working class, and I grew up in a council house.
We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.