Working-Class Sociology Quotes

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[Paul Embery @PaulEmbery]

Streeting has resigned. In his departure letter to the prime minister, he warns of a “dangerous English nationalism”, slags off Reform, attacks Starmer’s “island of strangers” remarks and calls Brexit a “disaster”.

That should bring the Red Wall flocking back.

[Working-Class Sociology Quotes @WCSocQuotes]

Burnham 👎
Streeting 👎
Rayner 👎

Is there anyone in the Labour Party we can get behind?

Based on those I’ve had contact with in the past, I don’t see any hope.

But, out of 403 Labour MPs, there must be one? Surely?!

[Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot]

NEW - Full list of the 111 MPs who have signed a statement of support backing the PM.

Jack Abbott
Luke Akehurst
Bayo Alaba
Callum Anderson
Catherine Atkinson
Calvin Bailey
Alex Baker
Antonia Bance
Alex Barros-Curtis

[Dr Jenny Thatcher @JennyAThatcher]

Presenter: "People say Labour are no longer the party of the Working Class?'

Labour MP: 'We are absolutely the party of "working people."

💀

[Lisa Mckenzie @redrumlisa]

Brilliant just recieved a letter from my landlord putting the rent up another £520 a year thats my holiday gone. I know people who go to work aren't entitled to holidays or to live on their own or to have the heating on. What wont we be entitled to next year? At what point does this end? I know families eating from foodbanks to service the rent. I actually feel sick because I know next year when the rent goes up again I wont have much more to cut back on. I'm getting closer to the HMO. This is why people aren't saving towards pensions.

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Any recommended readings on the 10:1 ratio policy?

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The working-class academics who adopt the middle-class-isms of academia are ruthless. I understand why they do it, it’s tough to survive in this middle-class sphere. But I cannot forgive those who adopt the dog-eat-dog mentality and don’t support their working-class peers.

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If anyone is aware of upcoming postdoctoral research assistant opportunities related to the sociology of class, or is developing a research bid that might include a postdoc position, I’d be very keen to discuss my doctoral research and see if there are any opportunities!

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@JennyAThatcher Because he’s a narcissist.

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

The facts, put plainly, sound utterly monstrous - and a genuine low for British politics.

It’s over.

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Hannah is spot on here. It’s such a shame that there isn’t a working-class left-wing party in this country. The Greens are not it, but neither are any of the alternatives.

[Novara Media @novaramedia]

Hannah Spencer, the plumber who was selected as the Green party candidate for the Gorton and Denton byelection, told Novara Media on Friday that she wanted to see "cleaners, taxi drivers, [and] people who work in takeaways" taking up seats in the House of Commons.

Watch Spencer's full interview with @MichaeljsWalker on YouTube.

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NEW BLOG POST:

The Green’s have ignited discourse about class with the selection of Hannah Spencer. The tokenism is tiring 👇

https://t.co/pAoKxFR6q1

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Clueless Reform. If only we had a working-class left-wing party, they’d wipe the floor with these Thatcherites.

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: Nigel Farage says he would cut pint prices by 5p through slashing beer duty by 10%

Reform claims it would be funded by reintroducing the two-child benefit cap

[@Telegraph]

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NEW BLOG POST:

The Green’s have ignited discourse about class with the selection of Hannah Spencer. The tokenism is tiring 👇

https://t.co/pAoKxFR6q1

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BREAKING NEWS: @owenjonesjourno thinks that working-class people are incapable of being educated and entering academia.

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

@redrumlisa She's more working class than you are. She's a plumber. You're an academic with political views pretty similar to Jacob Rees Mogg

[Working-Class Sociology Quotes @WCSocQuotes]

😂😂😂 Christmas has come early. @owenjonesjourno would pile on to anyone (especially if it was a woman) for “misgendering” and he wouldn’t show an ounce of forgiveness.

Identity-obsessed liberal “left”-politics is lunacy. Working-class collectivism is all that matters.

[Aja ♀️🇬🇧 @AjaTheEmpress]

Owen Jones is being bitten by the monster he helped create. And oh my god is it glorious

[Lisa Mckenzie @redrumlisa]

Typical middle class Liberal see 'lower classes' as functional either enriching their magnolia lives or to deliver them something or doing crap jobs keeping wages low when you scratch the surface theres always an elite twat looking down their noses at the working class

[Steve Hall @ProfHall1955]

There's a lesson here. I'll leave this pinned up for a while - I'm about to block Steve and anyone supporting him because they have nothing to teach anyone. It's a classic statistical grift.

Never believe amateur internet statisticians without further investigation. Steve didn't notice that I put 'wealth' in inverted commas because it's a notoriously unreliable concept. 'Net personal wealth', which he uses here, is openly declared assets minus openly declared liabilities.

This is one of the narrowest, most simplistic and least reliable stats. It's virtually impossible to aggregate it because it ignores valuation challenges, incomplete reporting and self-reporting, money hidden in tax havens, future pension and investment wealth etc. Basically, it's just a snapshot of the current recorded wealth the rich want us to know about.

The figure I quoted was an estimate, used by analysts such as Thomas Piketty, based on a broader and more realistic conception of wealth virtually exclusive to the very rich. It includes private pension/investment promises, estimates of wealth hidden abroad in tax havens and freeports, shell companies, undisclosed offshore trusts and foundations, discretionary bank and brokerage accounts, art, jewellery and antiquities, derivatives and swaps, digital assets (crypto etc.) and other stuff we don't know about yet.

All these are major forms of personal 'wealth' and security across the life-courses of the rich 1%, and also boost the 'wealth' of those a bit below them, although not as much. The poor and most of the middle have none or comparatively little of this. We don't really know how much the really rich have - it could be a lot more. What a world, eh? Grifter's paradise. https://t.co/693zD4uMBp