He'll do extraordinarily well with the working class ...
How patronising.
Working class upbringing in my house and funnily enough we enjoy seeing working class people work hard to become successful.
We want that to inspire our kids to have aspirations and not feel they have totally limited choices. Many do have limited choices due to the imbalance of opportunity in our society and poverty.
I have more confidence in someone who has grafted to get to where KS is wanting to change that and give the next generation more opportunities, more choices and less limitations than someone who has been very privileged and had a headstart in life. I don't begrudge people who have had that kind of luck, it's just circumstance and luck of the draw. I'm not bitter.
I just don't think they have the understanding of the experience of huge swathes of the population and therefore don't understand how the imbalance and poverty gap affects people.
Your comment implies working class people are unable to view success as aspirational and feel proud of people from our background who do fucking well for themselves.
My journey has been from an unlucky start in life, to foster care to running a successful business and my friends and family from the estate I grew up in are proud of "one of our own" grafting to get somewhere.
As a feminist I am proud when a woman is very successful. As someone with my background and start in life I am proud of when someone with similar roots is very successful.
You're basically saying that all working class people are bitter about other people's success and don't want people to smash the challenges faced by the massive numbers of working class people.
You're wrong.