fractured britain .... meritocracy culture ....and all that

[ecuworrier]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/may/31/chav-vile-word-fractured-britain?INTCMP=SRCH

i decided to post this here in the cultural section hope Boston Tommy finds some resonance with this... it's cos there is a cultural view of the world that has been the votes courted as being seen as significant to be courted the grand game plan of New labour on the backs of the tory default victorian plan.... i like what Polly Toynbee has to say with this article the strands that she feels are giving it all away about the gravy train all the way to the posterior end of

anyhow in brief she says that the political class despises the working class and does nothing to help them and that this political class has in it's sights to demonise them with all the political tools available and that doesn't feel fair does it ....

endemic solutions impossible where the endemic is the source of the problem...

so is there a fractured britian is there an injured britain and what should we do about it ? is there room for a shift in culture?


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[AndrewF]

I have yet to agree with a single thing Polly Toynbee has ever said - she had the biggest chip on her shoulders I| have come across for a very long time.

[AndyHB]

ecu, I think the term 'underclass' gives away the point.  I'm not sure that the working class actually fit into this group, as the 'underclass' are almost always those who don't work, either by choice or because the habit of work has been lost through generational unemployment.  I find that Polly sometimes makes such ridiculous claims, almost as if she has made no attempt to research what she writes, whilst at other times, what she writes is worth further study.

Interestingly, I believe that the term chav was coined by the very same working class that Polly is trying to bolster - suggesting that they are a different 'class' to the working class.