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Originally Posted by Ramrod
Indeed, but you said that you spent four years at a private school, and "know full well the contempt most of these snobs view "ordinary" people with"......and made it sound like you rubbed shoulders with the 'toffs'. Now you say that you didn't go to a school like Eton or Harrow, so that implies that you don't "know full well the contempt most of these snobs view "ordinary" people with"....  |
I'm just making the point that when I was at school in the mid 70s, which is when the present Tory leadership would have been at Eton, there was a definite sense of superiority over children from the local schools. And by far the worse examples came from the boys who families had inherited wealth, having a sense of entitlement to their position purely from birth. The school had its fair share of titled families, which had the House of Lords reform bill not passed, would have allowed them a seat on the Tory benches as hereditary peers. I certainly did not "rub shoulders" with any of them, nor did many of the other boys at the time, because as Ive already mentioned they believed themselves far superior to the rest of us. I have absolutely no problem with wealth inherited or worked for, but surly the people who hope to lead our country and represent us should have knowledge of what its like to live and struggle in the real world.