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People around Liz Truss's age

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mintywinter · 06/10/2022 18:45

Who also went to a Comprehensive school, did you travel on a plane as a kid? I didn't and I was thinking about the bit in her speech where she says she got an air hostess badge, and thinking that anyone in my school who'd been on a plane would have been thought of as posh? In my school people holidayed in the UK if at all.

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PointeShoesandTutus · 06/10/2022 18:51

Liz Truss grew up in one of the most expensive suburbs of Leeds, and her old school is an Outstanding one which people fight to get into. The average house price there must be circa half a million.

The people of Roundhay aren’t best pleased to say the least!

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/liz-truss-roundhay-school-leeds-b2133397.html?amp

onethirtyfive · 06/10/2022 18:54

I'm 44 and went to a comprehensive school. I think she's a bit older than me, but not a lot. Me and all my friends had been on planes, it wasn't unusual at all.

What an odd thread.

myfavouritemutant · 06/10/2022 18:54

Yes I did, as did most of my friends. Maybe not every year but certainly every 2 or 3 years.

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mintywinter · 06/10/2022 18:57

What an odd thread

Why's it an odd thread? I'm asking a question. I'm a year older than LT and among my friends plane travel wasn't a usual thing.

PointeShoesandTutus That's interesting

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nonstoprenovation · 06/10/2022 18:57

I'm the same age and no, no planes or foreign holidays but This surely depends on location?? And what area you grew up in?

Where I grew up I'm pretty sure even the kids in school today don't have the luxury of foreign travel?

FayeGovan · 06/10/2022 18:58

Ffs op. Why are you listening to her???

If liz truss told me it was Saturday
I'd still check the calendar

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mintywinter · 06/10/2022 18:59

If liz truss told me it was Saturday
I'd still check the calendar
Grin

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mintywinter · 06/10/2022 19:00

This surely depends on location?? And what area you grew up in?
Fair

Also I realise nowadays there are still many kids who won't have travelled by plane and that'll likely increase Sad

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HerLadySheep · 06/10/2022 19:01

I'm a few years older than her, went to a biog standard comprehensive school, and lived in an average suburban semi in the Midlands, me and most of my friends went on overseas holiday by plane.

MaryTruss · 06/10/2022 19:01

I went to a comp and went abroad most years with family and then exchange visits with school to France and Germany and also cultural visits to both - it was fairly normal, there were also ski trips and sightseeing trips to Madrid and Rome that others went on. Being pre 9/11 we quite often went into the cockpit on the school trips, definitely wasn't offered a pilot or hostess badge though. I suspect that bit was 🐄 💩 (like most of her witterings)

Dmsandfloatydress · 06/10/2022 19:02

I went to a school like Roundhay in another part of the country. Wealthy intake. I didn't go on a plane until I was 18 , only drove to France. Most of my classmates who were well off went on a plane every few years though.

AJamEater · 06/10/2022 19:05

I went to a local grammar; my DM taught at the comprehensive. Most of her classes jetted off on package holidays to Spain/Portugal while we got a week's rain in Devon/Yorkshire.

GreenLunchBox · 06/10/2022 19:05

I don't believe the story.

The Tories lie as easily as they breathe so I'm assuming it was made up.

It was just a " look at me, I'm Prime MINISTER" thing

WalkingThroughTreacle · 06/10/2022 19:06

I am almost ten years older than her. Foreign holidays were pretty common for middle-income earners and above. I think she's honestly making a complete twat of herself trying to claim she can empathise with the less well off just because she went to a comp. Her father was a university professor, not a manual labourer. She's hardly clawed her way out of poverty.

MissyB1 · 06/10/2022 19:07

How old is she? I’m 54, I went to a comprehensive. Going abroad on holiday was for the rich only. We went to a Pontins camp a couple of times, and twice I went to Granny’s in Ireland - but we went on the ferry.

waffless · 06/10/2022 19:08

Bloody hell leave the woman alone. This is ridiculous!

CleopatrasBeautifulNose · 06/10/2022 19:09

I'm 7 months younger than LT and was unusual in my mixed area of working class and lower middle class in not setting foot on a plane until I was 18. Most of my school mates went abroad once a year through their teens. So her getting a badge from an air hostess wouldn't have been odd.
Her background is well to do where I'm from though. 👀

ShanghaiDiva · 06/10/2022 19:10

I am slightly older and went on holiday to the US when I was 12 and this was pretty unusual at my comprehensive.

HappyAsASandboy · 06/10/2022 19:10

I am 43 and went to a comprehensive school. We went on holiday for two weeks twice a year, with both holidays being abroad on a plane!

itsnotdeep · 06/10/2022 19:11

I've just realised she is 5 years younger than me Shock shit.

no real comments on the question raised - holidays abroad were rare in my childhood maybe 3 children out of the class went abroad - I remember it being a novelty when one girl went to Spain and another girl went to Florida. We went to Wales every year. I didn't go abroad for the first time (bar a school trip to Dieppe) until I was 16.

iekanda · 06/10/2022 19:13

We went to Torquay/similar and later, France on a ferry. Even later, flying to Europe, but think that we were older by then. I remember that lots of people went to Spain, although we never went as kids. I have been as an adult.

Plenty of people on MN trot out "my kid goes to local state school" forgetting to mention that it's in a nice area. I knew someone at university who went on and on about his bog standard comp and ordinary house. Yes, well 5 bed detatched in a leafy suburb, wonderful school, parents university professors. People re-write their own histories to suit their narrative.

GCAcademic · 06/10/2022 19:14

I'm her age, went to local grammar and parents weren't well off (p-t healthcare assistant and clerical role in the public sector). We went on quite a few foreign holidays (though we didn't have a car).

MissyB1 · 06/10/2022 19:14

Crikey lots of you lived very different lives to me then! Mind you we did live on a council estate - but so did about half of our school. And I had free school meals, but again most of my friends did too.

LoobyDop · 06/10/2022 19:15

I’m the same age as her, my dad was also an academic and I went to a northern comprehensive. We flew to visit family fairly frequently, but summer holidays usually involved car ferries, tents and France, and that was pretty standard among people I knew.

EvilRingahBitch · 06/10/2022 19:16

Yes the occasional overseas package holiday was not a luxury reserved for the wealthy in the late 70s and 1980s. The growth of Benidorm and the Costa del Sol, of Intasun and Lunn Poly. You and your friends may not have been on foreign holidays, but did you not watch the adverts? A cheap week in the Med was completely normal for families in the top half of the income range.