The way the guardian treats the working classes makes me feel vaguely ill.
I’m from a resoundingly working class background and the attitude from the grauniad is one of handwringing over the actions of a particularly stupid and vulnerable pet 
. They then fail to understand why working class people vote for more right wing parties. I considered myself left wing until this last year or so, when all the GRA stuff began to brew up. Then it’s sort of solidified in my mind that this is really shit, thought police kind of stuff. And that’s not who I am politically. And then I’ve been thinking about how the modern left treats the poor and he working classes. The old left used to be for supporting workers rights, creating a strong safety net and encouraging everyone to fulfill their abilities. The modern left seems to be for telling everyone what to think, creating dependency and for the status quo to remain as is.
I believe strongly in a safety net. In workers rights, in education improving people’s lot. I want to see equality of opportunity.
What I can’t vote for is being told what to think, that science is bigotry, that antisemitism is OK, that women are secondary to every other fucking group on the planet (men, religious men, transwomen) and thatcthe working classes are some sort of irredeemable troglodyte class who should be grateful for scraps.
So well done Owen Jones! You’ve successfully stopped this guardian reading leftie from reading the guardian AND voting labour. You’re a prize, sir.