Guardian reading middle class leftie?

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[sillyoldfool]

I was brought up middle class but have fallen from grace spectacularly in the earnings stakes, leftie and guardian reader though, so nearly there!

[ModernToss]

Theoretically yes, although the Guardian is annoying me sometimes these days, with its fancy lifestyle stuff. But yes, this category fits.

[DeskPlanner]

Afternoon all. Isn't it a lovely day ?

[AwkwardSquad]

Me, definitely. The Grauniad has stories that the rest of the mainstream media ignore. Yes they have a London bias and yes they can be really fucking annoyingly single-estate-oil-from-a-little-place-in-Perugia at times but the good far far outweighs the bad. And btw the journalists aren't all Oxbridge etc. That's a lazy assumption fed by the likes of the Torygraph etc.

[shufflehopstep]

I'm a leftie and read Guardian online but not MC although have benefitted from the old student grant system which allowed me to go to university despite having an unemployed dad and mum who was a temp. I'm more left than the Guardian though and come from proper WC stock but suppose I now have many of the trappings of a MC life. My dad would be horrified to hear me refer to myself as MC though.

[squoosh]

I like to squeeze a tear out over some article in the Family section. Sometimes it's just the old snaphot, sometimes it's the recipes........but there's always soemthing that will bring an 'awwwww' to my lips.

Then I pull myself together and go read a bit of Polly Toynbee.

[LadyClariceCannockMonty]

PS forgot to add that I certainly wasn't brought up middle-class, although I suppose, looking at my life these days, I am now. Eeee, I've changed ...

[TheHerringScreams]

Thanks UnChartered the not sure bench is getting pretty full probably a sign I should lose some weight and I'm allergic to chamomile probably the randomest thing to be allergic to

[UnChartered]

it's always been a leetle bit poncey though, one of my favourite features of the saturday magazine used to be 'what's in your fridge'

i still open mine sometimes and wonder what could be written about the contents

[TeWiSavesTheDay]

Sometimes I am.

Buy normally we buy I because it's shorter and cheaper, but also a decent paper (regularly broke middle class Guardian reading lefties)

[AKissIsNotAContract]

I fit the criteria.

[BrienneOfTarth]

Yes this is me... but does it count if one is ashamed of identifying as MC on the grounds that we ought to live in a classless society where MC, WC UC etc are meaningless (obviously this is utopian nonsense).

[littleballerina]

leftie, guardian reading but student and single mother rather than mc (hush, don't tell dm). can i peer in the window?

[Branleuse]

me!

[Helenagrace]

Is there a pass mark for this thread?

Guardian yes (but I also read the Telegraph so maybe half a point?)
Middle class yes (1 point)
Leftie (not sure who I'd vote for right now, have voted labour, Tory and lib dem in the past (one third of a point)

So 1+0.5+0.33 = 1.83

Am I in?

[UnChartered]

Herring how about organic green instead

[SilverOldie]

True blue Telegraoh reader and it has the best crosswords.

[ExitPursuedByABear]

[YokoUhOh]

Add me to the list. Champagne socialist here

[gordyslovesheep]

Here Ms !

[Mondrian]

Not sure what to make of Guardian. 30 yrs ago I considered it a leftie but not sure now ... Ok it's on the left of the Telegraph but that doesn't make it a leftie. I do however read selective sections such as world news and its definitely not left of much there. Wonder if it is actually only selectively left for marketing reasons.

[YokoUhOh]

Fair-trade fizz, obviously. And no bubbles they give me bad guts

[YokoUhOh]

Ooooh and I had a letter published in The Graun when I was 15 Anyone remember the 'Jackdaw' section? No?

[delboysfileofax]

Would definitely consider myself a leftie but hate the guardian. Spends far too much space on minority issues and not enough campaigning about things which effect everyone else. That and the fact it hates the white working classes. Still read comment is free though!

[bigkidsdidit]

well

would be me but I am so utterly depressed by the comments on CIF and the horrendous misogyny (sp) that I am decamping to the independent, despite the awful banner ads

oh and Joseph Harker makes me MAD and it's not good for me