A lot of hard working people are angry. Very angry.
These people, quite accurately, are the actual ‘working class‘. The actual ‘working class‘ are not the scroungers who do nothing in exchange for their fortnightly hand-outs. The actual ‘working class‘ are not those receiving a generous salary for their hard work. That’s the hard work that more than often is centred on a 9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday attendance pattern with bank holidays and weekends off. And the actual ‘working class‘ are certainly not the wealthy middle class or supreme beings that have so much money that it borders on being obscene.
The actual ‘working class‘ are struggling.
Very often the actual ‘working class‘ are the hard grafters just about earning ‘minimum wage’ or not far above it. For this, they have to attend workplaces during unsocial hours with weekends and bank holidays treated as if they are any other day.
Often they are working for companies that exist to make money out of contracts to supply labour-based services to larger organisations rather than the larger organisations bothering to directly employ people. Typically, this might be a cleaning ‘company’. It will charge an organisation £15 an hour for cleaning that it is paying its employees £6.31 an hour for, and the rest of the money makes a very nice profit for the ‘directors’ who are not doing any of the work.
Sometimes the actual ‘working class‘ can only get 16 hours work with one company, and so are forced to hold down a second job for a further 16 hours.
A day for the actual ‘working class‘ can include rushing from one part of town to the other in order to make it in time from one job to the next.
Sometimes the work available to the actual ‘working class‘ is variable from week to week, often left to the last minute before the hours available are made known to them. They can’t afford to refuse whatever work is available. It’ll be offered to one of their colleagues, and they won’t get asked again.
The actual ‘working class‘ are exhausted. They work long unsocial hours to try to make ends meet. Their life is not one of extreme luxury. They will pay for a modest home and creature comforts, but they are struggling.
Taxes, stealth taxes via their fuel bills, and constant price rises squeeze the actual ‘working class‘ harder and harder, yet the only wage rise they’ll get is the 11p an hour rise that employers are forced to begrudgingly pay because the Government has set out minimum wage levels by law.
The only answer for most of the actual ‘working class‘ is to get a third or fourth job, or to work many more hours when they can.
This is why the actual ‘working class‘ are angry. Frustrated, scared and angry.
Yet nobody seems to represent or defend the interests of the actual ‘working class‘. This adds to the sheer frrustration.
Millionaire socialists and those with no idea what it’s like to struggle on minimum wage will pretend they are the champions of the actual ‘working class‘.
They are not.
The actual ‘work class‘ are just voting fodder for them, nothing more, nothing less.
The majority of the actual ‘working class‘ are not stupid. They know they are being conned. They know the millionaire socialists of the Labour party aren’t really interested in their plight any more than the Oxbridge educated Conservative or Liberal Democrats are.
The real and growing problem is that politicians of all parties are from the more privileged and educated classes and so they have absolutely no idea what it’s like to be a hard grafting member of the actual ‘working class‘.
All too often the politicians confuse the actual ‘working class‘ with the shirking class scroungers. This confusion is why the actual ‘working class‘ don’t get free replacement boilers or loft insulation, but the scroungers do.
So, the actual ‘working class‘ truly need a political party that actually listens to and then represents them.
The actual ‘working class‘ need to be treated better and respected more, because they really are working so damn hard just to stay alive.
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