Are The Metropolitan Elite, Our Biggest Enemy?

It is a thought which in my opinion has not been taken into account. I ask this in light of several surreal column which have done the rounds in the past few weeks.

First of all, I need to say that the work that Polly Toynbee and David Aaranovitch amongst others have done highlighting the state of British Society - has been invaluable work, and those of us on the Liberal Left of the political spectrum are in their debt.

However, recently I have noticed that several columnists have seemed to have gone over the diving board with some of their thoughts, and the question that has to be asked is if their ramblings are having a detrimental effect of engineering social change in this country of ours.

One of the big factors of this, is that the Metropolitan Elite don't have a clue how hard-working families are coping with the on-going credit crunch. With house prices expecting to come crashing down over the coming months, some of Labour's support, those who they flirted with in 1997 and 2001 are starting to suffer, badly.

And yet, the likes of Toynbee and Steve Richards of the Independent, continue to ignore those concerns and keep on beating the drum and supporting the government on issues such as immigration and crime and global warming. For the average Labour voter on the street, they are openly hostile to more immigrants and economic migrants, and yet these same columnists are advocating more?

Why?

Take Polly Toynbee for example. Not exactly your archytypal Labour supporter. She was born into a life of luxury. She describes herself as middle class.

Middle-Fucking-Class!

She's on the best part of £120,000 per year, has a property in one of the most desirable streets in Clapham, W4 and has a place in fucking Tuscany and she calls herself Middle-Class?

Fucking hell, what the hell does that make the average worker, who is on £22,000pa. I am on just shy of £15,000pa. Am I part of the underclass in her estimation?

This is the problem.

The liberal columnists and journalists in Fleet Street have become so entrenched in their own Utopian world, that anything and everybody who interferes in it, can go and screw.

At a time when the Labour support is evaporating as quickly as Andy Murray's US Open challenge, the likes of Toynbee and Richards have a responsibility of listening to the concerns of the grassroot Labour voter.

Otherwise, they as much as Gordon, will be to blame for the inevitable Tory Landslide at the next election, whenever that will be.

Rob ;(


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