We’ll never escape Britain’s stupid class system |
Britain’s class system has always been a load of self-defeating, nonsensical garbage with no obvious purpose. But, remarkably enough, it has just become even more ludicrous. This month, we learned not only that Civil Service internships will be restricted to those from ‘working class’ backgrounds, but that the children of train drivers earning £80,000 a year will qualify, whereas the children of police and prison officers, who earn far less but are apparently ‘middle class’, will not.
We seem to have voted in the most class-obsessed yet confused government in history
Where that leaves someone whose father is a train driver, but whose mother is a police officer, I have no idea. And I reckon the government doesn’t either. Because the class system is a mass of silly contradictions that make it utterly useless. After all, those supposedly working-class young men and women who gain an internship next year will presumably become middle class as soon as they become established in their careers, which means their own children will automatically be privileged and therefore disqualified from........