To think that going comprehensive is an exit from the middle class?

[VolvoMo]

There may be a few minor exceptions (due to wealth or ideology) but doesn't going comp take away your middle class badge and worse, give your kids the chance to carry a big chip on their shoulder for their adult life.

I am weeping at the car insurance muddle up by Gnomedeplume :o

How does a child going to a comprehensive school change the social standing of the parent?

Unless of course the child comes home and sets fire to the car, in which case one might think he had been mixing with a bad lot and was perhaps of poor breeding?

AFAIK the middle class badge goes on the grille of the Audi.

Insight into what exactly?

no no no no no

audi's and bmw's are working class
volvos and skoda are middle
any old trusty car is upper

What a strange post - are you Hyacinth Bucket OP

So 93% of the country is working class then.

Complete crap OP and I am more than sure you know this already...

Fio yes yes yes old banger and a well bred horse = upper. :o

Hmm, feeling like you need a 'badge' to prove your class is pretty insecure, so lower middle I'd have said. You're wrong OP. Class depends on lots of things, not just education.

I went to a state comp in south Wales. It was as middle class as you can get. Farmers, landowners, the horsey hunty brigade, doctors, lawyers, surgeons....you get the picture.

It may be a Wales thing, but YA so BU.

You have to have a beaten up old Volvo to park outside a private school, don't you?

Fio that's my badge of being wc, an Audi

Fio Fio - I'm from bedfordshire.

Went to Lower, Middle and Upper

do the Welsh care about class?

no offence

It just seems to me that the English get wet their pants over anything class related and I can't really say the same for my Irish relatives or Scottish friends. I don't know many Welsh people (only from the Rhonnda) and they are just proud to be Welsh iykwim

sorry stray get there

I'm Speechless.

And shall we discuss whether class is related to income or not? According to my family income I am upper class but that's totally bollocks. I know lots of aristocratic families who are really on their uppers. Can't afford heating and living on soup poor.

You sound like a tosser.

Was that entirely random WhiteWidow or aimed at someone in particular? :)

it was aimed at you klaxon :o

Sorry it was aimed at the OP. And I'm purely going off the opening post

poor whitewidow is living off soup every single fucking day and the cats are eating the mice from the cellar.

how
very
dare
you!

If you are a product of private education, then

Fiofio you're forgetting the part were my dogs then eat said cats.

Irish people certainly dont care about class. Its a very English thing and really bizarre.

You would think that in this day and age most people would be absolutely delighted to live without these badges.

From what I have seen those who bang on about class tend to be much lower down the pecking order than they think!

Only 7 per cent of children are privately educated. And you can get a place due to money, not class.

This leaves most of the other 93 per cent of children in the comprehensive system. And certainly more than 7 per cent of the population are middle class!