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No More Toffs, Please

This is his problem, that he [Cameron] simply does not understand the middle class. He seems to think everyone can afford spacious homes, a neighbourhood of ordered peace, and either private schools or select, untypical state schools in nice areas. He doesn’t know how hard they have to work simply to stay in the same […]

This is his problem, that he [Cameron] simply does not understand the middle class. He seems to think everyone can afford spacious homes, a neighbourhood of ordered peace, and either private schools or select, untypical state schools in nice areas.

He doesn’t know how hard they have to work simply to stay in the same place. He doesn’t know about the crime and the disorder that follow the drugs he is so soft on. He speaks for sheltered London toffs with second homes, but not for the great millions of people with just one home. ~Peter Hitchens

Hat tip to Daniel McCarthy

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