Do you care that Cameron went to Eton?

Labour seem to have declared a class based war on the Tories in the run up to next years general election. Do you think this will work? Are they shooting themselves in the foot?

... ps, i sound really Essexy in this video, no? Subconscious Middle class guilt? :P

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[LunarEcli]

I think it is an issue because someone with a background totally dissimilar to the majority can't understand the people as a whole.

For example, Cameron has only ever known upper/middle class life, meaning he could easily underestimate the conditions some people suffer through every day.

[ne1l007]

Don't hate on Eton.

[lottielovelife]

@ForeverComplaining No, I believe Cameron went to oxford ... didn't do him much good what I want is a government made up of people who know what this country is really like, not just some stereotypical view, and have had an education enough that I can trust that when they look at a economic report they can understand it and decipher it properly which I don't believe cameron can.

[lottielovelife]

@lottielovelife oh, and my mother has never been unemployed for longer than 3 months in her whole life and that was only to look after my dying gran. So please do not start talking about my family like were scum thank you. because you will never meet harder working, kinder people in your whole life.

[lottielovelife]

@ForeverComplaining he was 13 my Grandmother was a single parent form italy after her husband died when he was 3, leaving her with 5 kids on her own, and getting to the top isn't everest, but climbing any mountain is easier with a harness isn't it??

[lottielovelife]

@ForeverComplaining hi this is clearly old but I noticed what you said about my parents and won't have that said at all, neither of my parents have smoked for 20 years, they drink very occasionally the last time my mother stepped in to a pub was when she worked behind one, I haven't been on a holiday since I was 7 and that was a weekend in Devon. I don't live in an episode of cornination street. More likely the reason is that my parents never got the best of educations, my dad worked ....

[usainlightning]

@redface626 The Labour front bench is full of toffs, does that matter?

[ForeverComplaining]

@petertheallblack Exactly. You shouldn't have to feel guilty, because your parents saved up their money and invested it in your future, you should feel proud of yourself.

However labour don't like people saving money and investing it, they want everyone to live in council houses, and waste their money on cigarettes, alcohol and be state dependant.

[ForeverComplaining]

@redface626 You would rather the poor were poorer provided the rich were less rich, I have the same contempt for your socialist ideas as the people of Eastern Europe who've experienced them.

[ForeverComplaining]

@lottielovelife I think what you're trying to say is that if someone doesn't have a degree, in a privelleged university like Oxford, then they simply don't have a right to talk about politics and should be disenfranchised.

Well I have complete contempt for your ideas and I think you ought ashamed of yourself, as it really does contradict your left-wing argument.

[ForeverComplaining]

@lottielovelife I agree, however being working class is simply down to your parents irresponsibility.

Your parents most likely smoke, have a holiday every year, have a car, go to the pub, buy alcohol. If they didn't buy those luxuries and invested them in a savings account, you wouldn't suffer as you would be able to work, save up and get a mortgage.

But your type have this attitude which makes you fatalistic, it makes you think getting to the top is like climbing everest... It is not!

[ForeverComplaining]

@usainlightning Yes and shaun woodward - a multi-millionaire.