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unhappycamper

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Mon Nov 11, 2013, 06:42 AM Nov 2013

Former British PM John Major ‘shocked’ by power held by ‘affluent middle class’

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/11/11/former-british-pm-john-major-shocked-by-power-held-by-affluent-middle-class/



Former British PM John Major ‘shocked’ by power held by ‘affluent middle class’
By Agence France-Presse
Monday, November 11, 2013 2:50 EST

Former prime minister John Major has hit out at the dominance of the “affluent middle class” in public life and blamed Labour for deepening the class divide, in a speech published in Monday’s Daily Telegraph.

In Friday’s talk to Conservative activists, Major said the number of privately educated men and women in positions of power was “truly shocking”.

“In every single sphere of British influence, the upper echelons of power in 2013 are held overwhelmingly by the privately educated or the affluent middle class,” he said, according to the Telegraph.

“To me from my background, I find that truly shocking.”



unhappycamper comment: I'm on my first cuppa joe and can't tell if John Major is bitching about smart people in the government or is he trying to inject tea bagger philosophy into British politics.
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Former British PM John Major ‘shocked’ by power held by ‘affluent middle class’ (Original Post) unhappycamper Nov 2013 OP
What a tool! n/t Laelth Nov 2013 #1
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