Guardian reading middle class leftie?

[Hullygully]

Sign in

Stand shoulder to shoulder

Out and Proud

[Piemother]

I used to date a current guardian columnist. I'm quite middle class. I read the guardian quite a bit. I'm very leftie.

[usualsuspect]

I'm not sure if I'm in or out though.

[UterusUterusGhali]

Well, if we are allowed to be WC as well as a wooly, birkie-wearing, bearded leftie, then I'm in.

(Well, I'm poor, but not so poor that I'd buy anything other that maldon & clipper organic.)

[Hullygully]

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

Oh the eternal imponderables limitedperiod

What is the point of your what is the point?

[Hullygully]

I'm very interested and surprised by the linking of middle-classnessness with money.

All the MC lefties I know are raving skinters.

[Fairylea]

I read the guardian and the mail online.

Don't you all love me :)

[exexpat]

You called?

[EeyoreIsh]

a thread just for the likes of me

I prefer the indy apart from on a Saturday

does anyone else think that Lucy mangan and felicity Cloake would be great company. I'd love to have a few glasses of wine with them.

[thepixiefrog]

Can I join in? Definitely leftie (green rather than labour or libs), and I read the guardian but prefer the I. You really couldn't fit me into any class, very varied and mixed up social ancestry.

[thepixiefrog]

Hilly, I was a bit thrown by that too. I'd always thought of MC in terms of education.

[bigTillyMint]

Me too!

[thepixiefrog]

Sorry, 'Hully' bloody auto correct

[bigTillyMint]

But are you a "worthy"?

[UnChartered]

aye, that's what i meant

i didn't go to university, was edumacated at the local comp

[Hullygully]

But there's nothing to READ in the I

[ZombiesAteMyBaby]

I read the Guardian, and I'm a Leftie, but about as far from middle class as you can be. I'd probably be described as part of the "Underclass" by the current government. Oh but I'm also a secret DM reader. (I love the sidebar of shame).

[echt]

Another one here, and reading the Guardian since when it was the Manchester Guardian.
Was working class then but am middle class now, but always a leftie.

[decaffwithcream]

Guardian reading leftie and glad to have a thread to reinforce it as have had to give up muesli and lentils (low-carbing) and feet are not ready for sandals.

[TiredyCustards]

Me!

[bigkidsdidit]

yup we're skint

I think I'm MC because both my parents are profs. My mum claims to be WC becuase she remembers her childhood co-op number (?) DH claims to be WC because he is from Glasgow. Never mind his dad is an architect and he went to university and is a professional

[littlepeas]

Yes.......but have gone off The Guardian since I made the mistake of adding the comment is free app on Facebook - couldn't bear all the sanctimonious gits commenting away, apparently just thinking whatever The Guardian had told them to think, rather than forming their own opinions. I think I should probably just not read comments, rather than this being specific to The Guardian, but it has still put me off!

[thepixiefrog]

Ha! My df is like that too! He is the child of a doctor (DM) and a banker (df) and the grandchild of a medical chief superintendent and an engineer, but because he chose to be a mechanic and his great great uncle was a butler he is 'proudly working class'!

[Catmint]

I read it when I can.

Happy to 'fess up to the middle class(in reduced circumstances) leftie liberal label.

Off to weave some yoghurt and other stereotypes....

[Maxium12]

Isn't it 'The Grauniad'?

[stubbornstains]

"Raving skinter"- c'est moi!

Guardian reading single mum on benefits- but I know I'm middle class, as I know the right way to pronounce "prosciutto".