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Guardian reading middle class leftie?

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Hullygully · 07/05/2013 16:12

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Sparhawk · 07/05/2013 17:18

I'm definitely a Guardian reading lower class leftie, classy me.

Hullygully · 07/05/2013 17:20

ALERT

FORGET THE CLASS NONSENSE

(was just taken from another thread.)

OP posts:
UnChartered · 07/05/2013 17:22
BumgrapesofWrath · 07/05/2013 17:24

Me

BumgrapesofWrath · 07/05/2013 17:26

I'm glad to see this thread, I sometimes feel alone in the world!

hackmum · 07/05/2013 17:58

Signing in.

bettycocker · 07/05/2013 18:13

I'm also too poor to be middle class, but I am a leftie and I read the Guardian.

TheYamiOfYawn · 07/05/2013 18:23

Yep, although I do sometimes read the Indie and occasionally the Telegraph. I'm even wearing Birkenstocks.

Oopla · 07/05/2013 18:26

Working class hero Grin

CleanYourBloodyTeeth · 07/05/2013 18:33

The only GR in our village. They all love the bloody DM

sillyoldfool · 07/05/2013 18:43

One of my proudest moments at the time was getting an answer published in notes and queries on postmodernism the week I graduated from my bachelors degree. I was a bit of a plonker back then...

FreudiansSlipper · 07/05/2013 18:45

Guardian reader leftie

do not place myself in any class if others want to that is fine with me i find talk about class so so boring a british obsession that we need to move on from

motherinferior · 07/05/2013 18:45

moi aussi

Am hoping it was one of my pieces in Guardian Family that made Squoosh teary

raisah · 07/05/2013 18:53

I will sign in : - )
My dad is a Times reader!

pointythings · 07/05/2013 19:04

Me! Guardian reader and regular CIF commenter. And I love How to Bake.

Hassled · 07/05/2013 19:06

Oh I'm definitely in.

Look up "Guardian reading middle class leftie" in the OED and you'll see a picture of me.

limitedperiodonly · 07/05/2013 19:14

I'm a lefty and can't bear the Guardian or the Independent or the Mirror, for that matter.

There are lots of reasons, principally because I think with a few exceptions, they are badly-written and badly-argued and betray voters, just as I think right-wing papers betray readers with poor arguments too.

That said, I know who I want to vote for, and I guess other people do too.

Not for the first time of asking on one of your threads: what is your point Hullygully?

Foosyerdoos · 07/05/2013 19:14

Does it count if you read it online? (also read the Independent online). I prefer to think of myself as a wooly liberal (not that I am currently voting liberal at the moment, but did at the last election to my eternal shame).

ImNotCute · 07/05/2013 19:15

Yep, that's me! I have Birkenstocks and eat lentils too.

We buy the guardian every Saturday, it feels all wrong if we miss it one week for some reason. No time for a paper during the week unfortunately.

catgirl1976 · 07/05/2013 19:29

I think that's me. I read the Guardian and am a leftie. I expect I'm MC by most definitions

DeskPlanner · 07/05/2013 19:36

I used to love that, what's in my fridge feature.

Lorialet · 07/05/2013 19:38

Oh well ~ one out of three ain't bad, I suppose.

usualsuspect · 07/05/2013 19:40

I don't read the guardian, I'm not MC I am a leftie though.

Mominatrix · 07/05/2013 19:41

Me. However, I also read the FT, Telegraph and the NYT. Like to get a balanced viewpoint.

AKissIsNotAContract · 07/05/2013 19:42

Right so now we're all together what's the plan? can we put shit in UKIP's letterbox?