MoneySaving Poll: What class are you?

missy-

Funny how most people polled think they are middle class! Surely that's just not true!

spanielson

I work = I am working class

bauhaus_modern

Would be interesting to have been able to see a breakdown of the education/occupation/culture status of the voters.
No doubt influenced by age, but I'll bet there are more 'working class' academics with PhD's earning professorial wages than there are 'working class' blue collar workers!:T Similarly there'll be more blue collar and administrative/customer service 'middle class' folk than there will be tertiary educated and occupied folk.:eek:
Very interesting!!;)

stevemcol

Spanielson

I kind of agree with you and like to describe myself as working class on that basis. The lines are blurred now though since the vast majority of the population have to work (or are unemployed etc but technically part of the workforce). If you believe that everyone from a fast food assistant to a bank CEO is working class with no further caveat or description required then yes, you're right. I don't think it's that straight forward.

I don't like the term class though because it 'implies' a link to the quality or value of people; a concept that is rubbish.

JSUK_2

Interesting results. Other than pensioners, each age range sees slightly more than half consider themselves middle class, and virtually none Upper-Class. The slightly higher proportion of pensioners considering themselves middle class might be down to life expectancy advantages. Personally I'm working class, my brother's middle class, my mum's gone from working class to middle class, my dad from middle class to working class (through no fault of his own) and his dad went from working class to middle class, so I don't think class mobility is dead (down as well as up, sadly for me).

MothballsWallet

Don't really care what class I am other than: I'm not of the same stuck-up class as the Tory Party

khris210

All political parties have members and voters from all classes. I give you the Hon. Harriet Harmon, whose aunt is the Countess of Longford, (remember Lord Longford?) amongst others, and who was involved in the PIE scandal. The class of a voter is irrelevant to their political convictions. Are you seriously claiming that all working class people are Labour supporters and all the middle and upper classes are Conservatives? You are living in a little hate filled left wing bubble. By the way, did you marry your wife for political reasons? If not, why is the fact that she was an immigrant relevant? Keep your nasty little prejudices to yourself, and off a home finance website.

khris210

My father was very much working class but secretly voted for the Conservative (for the man, not the party). My mother was lower middle, her father a Co-op manager. My father was fiercely self employed. I've been self employed for most of my working life. I regard myself as working class with middle class (and up) tastes. That is Classical music, art, literature etc. This begs a number of questions. Why are those interests regarded as ' posh', given the success of Classic FM? The fact is that the definitions of Class are endlessly variable and fluid within the three major divisions, which is what makes it so interesting and enjoyable.

V.Lucky

If you have to work for a living you are working class, end of!

Redknapps_Dog

Nonsense. I have to work and am middle class.