Times Letters 5th December
For those who have not been keeping up(!) the debate on who the middle class are (in this case) was created by ex-Masterchef time keeper Gregg Wallace who posted a video claiming that his critics were ‘middle class women of a certain age’. He later apologised.
In the meantime some of the critics answered back that they were content to be middle class and to some extent proud of it. This provoked a further point (Times Letters 4th Decembers) that some of them were actually rather wealthy and perhaps upper class. Alternatively could it be that the middle class has subsumed the upper class.
A brief glance at the Buckingham Palace banquet for the leaders of Qatar in early December suggests that the ruling class is still very much with us.
The Times letters page (5th November) ponders if there might be an upper middle class, a sort of waiting room for the upper class.
Marx noted that social being determines consciousness and as E P Thompson noted in the Preface to the 1963 edition of the Making of the English Working Class, class is not a fixed category but a changing relationship between two groups in society
Gregg Wallace btw claims he is working class despite the fact that he is a millionaire business owner, as he came from humble origins and supports Millwall.
Wallace’s reported and alleged comments and actions do like those of a millionaire rather than the millions however.
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