O/T Shame on the working classes

[kempo]

I think this topic is important enough to have a thread of its own.

As a working class person, today I feel a great sadness and I admit some anger towards my class group.

I have always known that the working class has been manipulated and held back by the ruling elite but 30 years ago I thought things were moving forward.

My mum was a school dinner lady and my dad went to the steelworks on his bike.

My brother and I went to medical school and I thought that this must represent a major step forward and new world for the working class.

I thought we must be seeing a brave new world of being given previous unavailable opportunities.

We had to play our part I thought as nothing should be handed on a plate.

I thought at the time that the working class people needed to work hard towards those new opportunities grasp them, embrace them and move on with this fairer society.

30 years on and I am ashamed and saddened..I feel physically sick.

Instead of my dream and aspirations we have a working class that wallows in its victim status and makes zero effort to progress.

We have an over 50s group who have put the young people in the s..hyte

We have reasonable education which the working class have rejected over the years refusing the opportunities offered to all.

They remain poorly educated, many hardly being able to put a sentance together and all educational skills the worst in Europe.

This is a voluntary situation brought about by not taking available opportunities.

We have a jingoistic group of working class who drape scruffy flags from scruffy council house windows who shout silly nonsense about 'Great' in Great Britain'

Sadly I see racism running through the class as a norm.

I see their poor education being used to manipulate them by the intelligent right wing.

As a working class lad I am so ashamed that we have refused the opportunities and opted to wallow in our classness and today I feel like crying for what the working class has caused.

Neil Kinnock once gave his greatest speech about class and opportunity but all the new opportunities have been rejected.

It's a day of shame and as a working class lad I am truly ashamed.