Are your ears burning?

[bogeyman]

The article is rubbish.

It assumes that one equates class to income.

This is a fundamental mistake that an aspirational rag like the ToryGraph is bound to make.

'Class' is about breeding, manners, taste, honour and decency.

The Working Class have some honour, much decency, no breeding, little taste and a modicum of manners.

The Middle Classes have little breeding, an unnecessary burden of manners, little honour, impeccable taste, and generally have only a shred of decency.

The Upper Classes have no manners, no taste, little decency, lots of 'breeding', and often much honour.

[HairyArsedBloke]

I’m lower than lower working class and proud of it.

[Bagpuss]

People obsessed with class usually don't have any

can somone born into a poor background change class?

[Lucy]

People obsessed with class usually don't have any

Were your ears burning baggy?

[Bagpuss]

The article is rubbish.

It assumes that one equates class to income.

This is a fundamental mistake that an aspirational rag like the ToryGraph is bound to make.

People have always changed class, sometimes within one generation e.g. during the plagues that beset Britain social mobility from Surf to Lord of the Manor was common. Breeding? nah, more opportunity and mimicry I would say

[DimPrawn]

People obsessed with class usually don't have any

can somone born into a poor background change class?

If Kevin Smith wins the lottery and changes his name to Charles Forbes-Harrington, moves from Peckham to an country estate in the Cotswolds, and has elecution lessons and takes up shooting and polo, then yes. Maybe.

[bogeyman]

If Kevin Smith wins the lottery and changes his name to Charles Forbes-Harrington, moves from Peckham to an country estate in the Cotswolds, and has elecution lessons and takes up shooting and polo, then yes. Maybe.

But 'Charles Forbes-Harrington' would still lust after the biggest possible plasma TV, a thing that any real gentleman would abhor.

[BrilloPad]

The article is rubbish.

It assumes that one equates class to income.

This is a fundamental mistake that an aspirational rag like the ToryGraph is bound to make.

'Class' is about breeding, manners, taste, honour and decency.

The Working Class have some honour, much decency, no breeding, little taste and a modicum of manners.

The Middle Classes have little breeding, an unnecessary burden of manners, little honour, impeccable taste, and generally have only a shred of decency.

The Upper Classes have no manners, no taste, little decency, lots of 'breeding', and often much honour.

I prefer the income measure - made me middle class. BY your definition I am lower class.

I must be less well mannered...

[bogeyman]

I prefer the income measure - made me middle class.

No.

It makes you 'Middle Income'.

[Bagpuss]

Scenario 1
2 brothers born into a middle class family, ones becomes a doctor the other a car mechanic. Are they both now a different class?

Scenario 2
A child born into a working class family is adopted by an upper class family and is subject to all advantages that affords him, top public school etc. Is he upper class? because he has inferior breeding he must still be working class right?