Fuck! Apparently I'm The Elite!!!

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Genuinely a bit confused. At a Halloween party tonight when a friend of a friend who I know vaguely said that I was part of The Elite and so would automatically be biased towards maintaining status quo. She was sort of joking but not IYSWIM?

This is news to me. Do I get a badge? Is there a T-shirt? A handshake?

I suppose I'm interested in other people's opinions. Does the Elite now encompass the well off middle class whatever their background? I don't know anyone with any influence nationally....
In context I'm from Manchester, went to a bog standard Comprehensive. DH from Luton. Our parents are respectively a printer, teacher, nurse and warehouse manager. We both benefited enormously from free university education (Oxbridge and Imperial) and the house price boom (we're late 40s) and are in lucrative jobs London living in an expensive house. We privately educate both children for secondary but not for primary.
This makes me the poshest person I could ever have imagined as a child BUT surely not this nebulous Elite???
I'm honestly interested in how other people see this...
(DH just laughing. He's now drinking a cup of tea in his dressing gown and a bow tie!)

Chippychip1
@hopefullyhelpfully would you vote for a party that increased income tax or lowered the threshold of inheritance tax or abolished private schools?
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I think the fact I said I'm not a huge JC fan is what triggered the comment. I'd vote for a party which raised tax and inheritance tax but the private school thing bothers me. I've always voted labour but hate brexit so much I'm toying with Lib Dems. It feels strange to be even considering voting another way...

You don’t like aubergine The great underrated vegetable

You probably are part of the Elite to some people I’m sure

Do champagne socialists still exist no idea

Well I have tended to vote Lib & labour in the past but I defo won't be voting for paying more income tax.

I earn good money, have nice car, a biggish house but no kitchen island. My one goal in life is to have a kitchen island. Only then will I be in the elite (what ever that is)

I now have an island sadly only the kitchen variety. Came with the house. It’s not that fantastic I don’t think but I’ve got used to it.

A socialist who educates their dcs privately are you Diane Abbott Or Shami Chakarabhati OP?

Crikey, I'm the elite on just about every measure I think. Actually I'm probably the dreaded Metropolitan Elite.

Yet somehow I don't feel as powerful as the Boris Johnsons/Jacob Rees Moggs/Dom Cummings/Nigel Farages of this world - who keep calling me "the elite".

She didn’t suggest she was a socialist. Being liberal is not the same as being a socialist.

I mentioned champagne socialism although not talking about op - no idea what she is but Islington used to be full of them apparently, now they’ve been rebranded the Elite.

Andromeda
It's been strange regarding private education. Teacher MIL was insistent we did it if we could afford it after a lifetime in the state sector. Local school pretty dreadful. I'm aware it's probably bad because everyone who can sends children to the many local selective private schools meaning state school is therefore missing a chunk of the demographic needed to be balanced and thrive.

I know this and still chose private because it's my daughter and she's really happy there.

I know it's hypocritical and yet if I'm honest (and I'm still a bit drunk!) it wasn't as much of a soul searching issue as I made out to people.
Christ. Maybe I am the Elite.

The elite is the 1%.

DP and I are 24 and own a £700k flat outright. We earn £80k. We are not the elite.

This is boring. No, you're not elite. Started off trying to be all "oooh, an a northerner but got a big house" posh and immediately descended into politics 😂

Jaysus...half of Irish houses have kitchen islands I wouldn’t say it’s anything elite...fairly normal in self built houses these days but then Ireland and the word “elite” means a completely different thing I imagine!! 😂😂

Crustycrab
This is boring. No, you're not elite. Started off trying to be all "oooh, an a northerner but got a big house" posh and immediately descended into politics 😂

Thanks for the not elite comment.
Now, what was it that i said about myself trying to be posh? I'm really interested why you think that as it's fascinating how people interpret class.

I think the consensus so far is "well off, done good, not elite, prob not that posh" so is it simply based on relative wealth?

To be elite I think you need a household income over 100K after tax and substantial savings.

We have household income over 100k and substantial savings. No kitchen island though so am obviously not elite.

DP and I are 24 and own a £700k flat outright. We earn £80k. We are not the elite.

How did you pay for the house on that income? I wouldn't say your salaries put you in the elite categorie but owning a 700k property outright at 24 is pretty unusual.

Oxbridge and private school. Its context. I grew up way below the poverty line, have been homeless, in care, various refuges etc but have a posh accent, masters, 1 at grammar and 1 who was at private (but moved as actually her private school was shit) Depending on who I talk to and how much of my background they know I can be anything between the elite and common as fuck.

@Cottagegirl1 there are so many different elites in Ireland. But money is the universal elite really. All of these nuances exist in Ireland too but the haste to label them quite so accurately ha ha, no.

Can you just stop with the faux fucking whinging 'an I elite' shit?

What do you actually think?

You know you are.

Hang on, let me get you a longer fishing rod. There there dear.

Most of you clearly have no idea that elite actually means.

I'm nowhere near it (despite outward appearances). Some friends are close to it, but it's not always about the money and the Eton/harrow/westminster. There's far more to it. One friend certainly is. Whole different level.

Money, private school and a kitchen island does not equal elite 🙄🤣.

Tell her you're not the elite, you're the vanguard. That will shut her up.

Humous has been revoked.

Am I elite because I've never heard of a kitchen peninsula?

"Am I elite because I've never heard of a kitchen peninsula?"

Quite possibly. Do you also drive an ancient Golf/volvo

On MN it seems to mean anybody who has more than me and it follows that you ought to be ashamed or embarrassed that you’re doing better than just scraping by, as though by earning your salary you’re somehow stealing from others. I’ve seen posters insist that if you earn £30k you’re “The Elite” .