Up the workers

The Dame has a very clever follower who she has always suspected of being socialist but, in fury, he has sent this to her, which rather puts her in her place…

My Dear Overprivileged Dame

Let me tell it like it is…

Socialists do not want the working classes to enjoy a different way of life.

These middle class socialists, who write articles for the Dame, think they know what the working classes need.

The mere fact that socialists write for the Hornet makes them middle class.  For these socialists,  social mobility for the working classes is a no, no. What would a socialist do without any workers to patronise? 

Socialists need the working classes to know their place and remain working class forever. In short, the working class are part of the ‘socialist empire’- street markets with all the trappings of what middle-class socialists think it means to be working class. Socialists forget that the trappings of high-end restaurants will employ some local workers in the service sector.

The wealthy diners might leave some tips which would definitely help some workers. 

The working classes can appreciate the luxury of a nice meal too in one of these high-end restaurants, even if they cannot afford it as often as they would like.  The working classes are not homogeneous; they have differentiated culinary tastes too. The working classes have moved on from the days of the cloth cap and whippets with sausage, egg, chips and baked beans thrown in,  even if the Marxists who root for them would prefer it if they were the same as they were in the fifties.  

Regards

Social Democrat with Epicurean Tastes