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I've met enough posh people - all perfectly nice - to know their understanding of what constitutes ordinary life is hopelessly & irredeemably skewed; that, yes, they think it a kind of baseline to have a nanny, a cleaner, the privilege to work from home, and so on>
...and that the daily grind of financial concerns, of juggling, of relying on family help, is the preserve of a poor bare-footed grunting few, and not normality -
It is for this reason - not the naff misquoting of Greek myth; not the blustering air of droit de seigneur -
It is for this reason - not the naff misquoting of Greek myth; not the blustering air of droit de seigneur -
...that the British system of funneling coddled schoolboys whose cheeks will until death be flushed with the Eton slap up from their dorms to number 10: because EVEN IF THEY TRIED, even if their intentions were sound, they could not fathom the needs of the many, only of the few>
...that people sat together in this ghastly crisis and thought: gosh, people must be frightfully fraught without their nannies & cleaners, *as a priority before public safety*, is the fruit by which which we know the tree is rotten & should be cut down & burned, have a nice day
One of these Tweets is half finished but you get the direction of my gist, I'm sure
NB I will mute this immediately, I said what I said. X
NB I will mute this immediately, I said what I said. X
