Dear Editor
From and including the times of Thatcher there has been a steady campaign to depict the ‘working class’, 90% of the population, as uneducated, fairly lazy and undeserving. What is behind this campaign – such a sustained attack must have motives?
The 1other 10% of the population, the wealthy class, have always feared a united people striving for and getting major improvements to their lives and gaining control over decision-making; this, they had to stop. This unity had to be broken,
First they had to break any resistance by people’s organisations, launching a
vicious attack on the trade unions, following this by wholesale closing of industries, from shipbuilding, ports, coal mines, printing, car & aircraft production, steelworks etc, destroying scores of thousands of people’s lives.
What better method could there be to break this unity, by pitting one against another in a scramble for a job while at the same time propagating the possibility of individuals climbing up the ‘social ladder’ and becoming ‘middle class’!!
The 90%, if opportunities are available, have differing levels of skill, giving differing levels in quality of life, but nevertheless are still of the working class in which everyone depends on everyone else to maintain their quality of life. The 90%, have the values of decency and thoughtful caring in wanting society to be organised and run for the benefit of all.
The same cannot be said of the remaining 10%, their campaign of vilification of the working class goes on; the recent past and present times are witnesses of their intentions.
Tony Delahoy (by email)
