| Comment | As usual with these discussions, we clearly have a very different understanding of what middle class means, and I think you mean upper class.
5% of the population goes to private school. That's the upper class.
I call myself middle class because my parents were both university-educated schoolteachers, the most typically middle-class profession to have, and I grew up in a suburban terraced house with a garden which they owned with a mortgage. That's what the middle class is. The folk in the middle. Not the folk at the top with the private school and the range rovers.
As for 'never had to worry about anything financially' have you never heard the term 'squeezed middle'? And it's a well-known phenomenon in the UK that much of the cultural working class has higher incomes than the cultural middle class - the stereotype being the schoolteacher on the public sector wage vs the self-employed plumber. |
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