to think that mumsnet are a bunch of Guardian-reading, laptop-wielding harpies

[lordtobyyoung]

here

My husband used to work for Ed Miliband :)

I can certainly tick a few of those boxes, I don't pretend to be part of the "squeezed middle" though and I've only just discovered Mumsnet. I wouldn't describe myself as a Mumsnetter but I am a Twitterati. Or just a Twit.

What is he saying though, if you are on a good salary you have to become a right wing nobhead like him? Sorry but I'll be a liberal leftie all my life and vote in the general election for whichever party has the policies that best suit my views. Why would anyone vote for the same party all the time when no party has fixed ideologies any more? Apart from the Tories of course who are ideologically twats.

SAHM - yes
Floating voter - no
Laptop - yes
University-educated - no, dropped out
Upper-middle-class - no
Mid-30s - yes
Two children - No, 1
Victorian house in North London - no, council house in telford
Weekends in the country - no
Fiat Multipla - no, dont drive
Weekly shop delivered by Ocado - no, asda smartprice here
Fondness for Green and Black?s chocolate - who doesnt?

yawn

SAHM - no
Floating voter - no (and neither Labour, LibDem or Green to boot )
Laptop-wielding harpy - well, I have a laptop but am I a harpy? But for the purposes of this exercise, I'll say yes
University-educated - yes.
Upper-middle-class - possibly (depends on your definition)
Mid-30s - no
Two children - yes
Victorian house in North London - no:
Weekends in the country -
Fiat Multipla - no
Weekly shop delivered by Ocado - no - they are crap
Fondness for Green and Black?s chocolate - prefer creme eggs
Knows someone who knows someone who once went out with Ed Miliband - No
Skinny jeans - Never
Thinks Yoby Young is a knobber - yes

Upper middle class - definitely not
laptop wielding harpy - don't own one

i do wear skinny jeans, nothing squeezed about my middle though (mainly 'cause I cant afford G&B's)

predominantly SAHMs - Full-time WOHM
university-educated - Yes
upper-middle-class - Possibly
in her mid-30s - Sadly not!
has two children at the local primary - err 1 in Prep and little one in local state nursery (shh!)
lives in a Victorian house - no
in North London - yes
spends weekends in the country - is Zone 3 countryside?
drives a Fiat Multipla - no
gets her weekly shop delivered by Ocado - no
has a fondness for Green and Black?s - all chocolate is good
and knows someone who knows someone who once went out with Ed Miliband - err why?
skinny jeans - refer you to answer above on chocolate
Newspapers - FT, Toryograph (its good for cricket ) and Indie

Is trying to chuck a whole load of charities on the street to make room for my new free school - no unlike you Mr Young

I am a harpy. Anyone else.....??

OK - I'll accept I'm a harpy

But I no longer read the Guardian although I get my dad's copy of the Saturday Guardian on a Monday and instead get the Herald on a Saturday and the Sunday Times on a Sunday. You can't categorise me by the papers I read!

And "free schools" are an irrelevance here in Scotland.

"Now Toby, stop interrupting the grown ups and go and play with your nice little free school friends,and play at convincing yourselves that you're starting a free school to be oh so inclusive and for the greater good of ALL children, (even the oiks) and not at all just for your own precious little darlings"

I think it's time for a MN Venn diagram!

I can tick the skinny jeans thing, and the university education. Plus the kids did go to the local primary many years ago. Epic fail on the rest though.

He is bang on the money.

Bit of lazy journalism, really. Some of it accurate. Not all. Is he bosom buddy with Matthew Wright?

Of course we are not all upper middle class harpies.

But if you had to sum up the overall tone of mn, that wouldn't be too far out.

I think that might have been the overall tone a few years ago, in the quiet days of users in 5 figures, but not now

(& that's with having AIBU blocked!)

the LCD is a lot lower these days...

Come on, there are a lot of right on Guardianistas on here. Toby is right about that, you can watch them all vying to be more anti-racist then the next Mum. They proudly announce that they hate Tories, like hating was such a good thing, they really enjoy their 2 Minute Hate sessions

To be frank I think you'll find Tory hating is pretty much everywhere these days,think you'd be hard pressed to find anybody who isn't looking forward to the next election. Don't think MN is special in that respect .

How to lose friends and alienate people - he wrote the book!

I hate tories yes, this is a completely rational response to an incompetent, undemocratic government. Tories only got a third of the vote and even then they lied about most of their policies. (protect the NHS anyone?)

How can he tell all those things from the threads anyway? He's just thrown some, not very provocative ( yawn!) pseudo demographics together to evoke some kind of response. Well here's mine;

Live in newish house,
drive a battered Volvo,
get food from Lidl's mostly
have a laptop, university educated
have heard of Ed Milliband,
have not heard of Toby Young
Working full time
Miles and miles away from London
Read almost all newspapers
Not saying what age but definitely not 30's.
Prefer Bounty bars
No children at local primary any more

You know the type. She?s in her mid-30s-yep. has two children at the local primary called Felix and Tallulah-nowhere near. lives in a Victorian house in North London-no bungalow in clacton spends weekends in the country-and weekdays drives a Fiat Multipla-no audi. gets her weekly shop delivered by Ocado-yes. has a fondness for Green and Black?s chocolate-yes or any chocolate -ed milliband nope. -has no skinny jeans.

Now will anyone pass me that pesky guardian???