social classes has gone down the drain in John Major's classless society. Hasn't it?
Well, not exactly. New research from Labour Research on election candidates demonstrates a rather clear class divide in their social back. ground and current job.
More than half the Tories went to public school; only around one in ten of Labour's candidates did. And if you take old boys from Eton, Harrow and Rugby, those traditional training grounds for the British upper crust, the Torles have 64 compared to Labour's two.
But these are things of the past, your caring-sharing Tory might object. So what about occupations now? One in five Tories is a company director; only one in a hundred Labour candidates claimed the same. And manual workers? None among the Tories apparently; 51 among the Labour candidates.
Poor old John Major. He must feel so lonely as he reminisces about the wonders of Brixton market, while all his colleagues are off to sing the Eton Boating Song.
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cal and economic crisis. How should the left