The Great British Class System, Explained

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I like how in The Gentlemen Guy Ritchy states that "English nobility are the original gangsters." They grabbed power & money via violence, then solidified their position by pretending they were 'noble'.

squarespace keepin this guy off the streets fr

When you understand that Britain is an unreformed feudal society, a lot makes sense. Where I live in West Berkshire 40% of the district is still owned by three families.

In Germany aristocrats were expected to become officers in the army. It was sort of a unwritten contract, that they had to repay their privileges by serving the King / Kaiser/ Führer.

It is rather simple: Lower Classes -- they are owned. Middle Class -- they own themselves. Upper Class -- they own others. Or in economic terms terms: Lower Classes -- living day by day, no assets, no access to capital. Middle Class -- they own as personal assets what they utilize, but need to work for a living, some have capital. Upper Class -- no need to work, living off capital gains, own and control resources and societal narrative.

My accent betrays me in some ways. I sound posh. My dad was a builder and my mum grew up in total poverty (but in a loving family). I went to a private school on an assisted place (because my parents couldn't afford the fees but I did so well in the entrance exam). I was kicked out of home while still at school when my mum died and my dad married a narcissist. I then self funded my way through the rest of my life with no financial aid. I developed anxiety, depression and chronic pain on the way - now I am over all of that and have a well paid job in London. I'm really proud of myself. However, I now get slapped with 'privileged white woman' in multi cultural intersectional victimhood loving London. It's a joke tbh. Growing up with no family support is really stressful on your body and mind, regardless of your background or skin colour. Having a loving, supporting family is the greatest privilege anyone can be blessed with, in my opinion. I do feel I've had to work twice as hard to get to where I am.

Worst thing about this country. I have a very mild Geordie accent (locals often ask where I'm from originally) but work in finance and IT for London based firms. The shit I've heard in professional meetings would be an insant sacking if I was a Pakistani or something. I've had my accent mocked, been told I can't be taken seriously, told didn’t realise you lot could use computers, etc. The class system in this country is pervasive and vile. Can't wait to leave the UK eventually. I'm always made to feel like a lesser person here.

I think it was on the Second Thought that I heard: There is no middle class, upper class or lower class. There's only working class and the ruling class. If you have to work to get through the month and don't get to call the shots, you're working class. I liked that painful reality check.

Using Stepen Merchants face when you talk about the merchant class is cracking me up so much lool

Anytime an aristocrat goes broke, a chav receives his Adidas tracksuit.

There's an excellent book called Watching the English - The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour. It's a fascinating study of what makes English people English. Being able to determine someone's class is hard-wired into the English. From the way you speak to what school you went to are all loud pointers towards someone's class. How you dress and even what you eat. The English (As well as the Welsh, Scots and Irish) recognise very quickly which class you occupy. How you got your money also comes into it. Inherited wealth is superior to newly earned wealth. You can't jump class with cash. You're simply born into it.

People like Rishi didn't necessarily earn their own money by their own merit. He was born into a good amount of wealth and had all the tools to make more at his fingerprints. That combined with the fact he married a billionaire.

Seen as the election has been announced it becomes official that this is the first time in British history where living standards have dropped during a single Parliament and it is the largest drop in living standards since the Napoleonic war. And at the same time the richest in society have got a lot richer deepening the divide.

I'm a lower class disabled single mum on benefits, not due to choice, but I sound upper middle class because I was taught to speak with a BBC British accent (I had to learn local regional accents to fit in in my peer group). It is hilarious when talking to people, especially middle class people who love chatting with me, at the theatre or a cafe in town, for example, they love talking or debating philosophy, politics or theology (the top subjects I've noticed), until they find out I'm on benefits then suddenly they're extremely confused and trying to hide their disgust 😂

Great job 👏🏽 I'm a French guy living in the UK for 5 years and it always amazed me how class based Britain is, I never really understood. Without the French revolution we would have the same class divide today

The UK Class system basically has no relevance to someones income. It's all about how they were brought up and what they think of themselves. You've got pensioners who can't afford their heating bill calling people scum because they think of them as a lower class, despite that "scum" earning 5x the money the pensioner has ever earned in their life. It's weird.

we did decapitate a king in England, or rather the middle class did. And we didn't nerf them, rather the middle and upper classes nerfed everyone else. Then Thatcher sold them the American Dream

I grew up in a very working class family in North West London (parents met working in the post office).... at age 11 I was sent to a grammar school outside of London where 95% of the kids were super posh from very rich areas like Windsor, Ascot, etc... I was regularly mocked for my accent and called a 'chav'.... in year 7 Secret Santa an upper class girl bought me a bar of soap and a bottle of shampoo, the implication very clearly being 'go wash yourself peasant'.... dont fool yourself into thinking classism is a thing of the past. It's very real.

As a Swede (Scandinavian) the UKs classism sounds so old fashioned and weird.