Why is being working class looked down upon these days?

note!! that it was the British working classes that built the bloody Empire. but white British and working class is unwanted in this EU run dump. this country is ear marked as the EU's industrial island. full of cheap forign workers and lowered safety standards. its obviouse what the labour party and the EU have in mind for Britain. its just that by the time the British people wake up and see it. it will be all over. there will be too many to fight.

I agree totally with your sentiments, as usual you’ve hit the nail directly on the head. I’ve seen over the past ten years or so a consistent degrading of the white working classes particularly in the liberal media. Look out how working classes are represented, Shameless, Jeremy Kyle, bloody Jade Goody they are so often represented as "the non working class" criminals, lazy, hooligans and racist. You have to ask yourself why this is happening and it to me its quite evident. In order for the country as a whole to accept immigration on such a massive scale the country needs to be convinced that there was a need, that there was jobs to fill. Would those jobs be filled by the working classes, Im afraid not, and why? Because they may ask for silly details like a fair wage, paid holidays, union rights, health and safety considerations and all those things cost money. In this country we spent the last 100 years reducing the gap between rich and poor everyone profiting from progress, under this labour government that gap has widened. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer and a steady stream of first generation immigrants working for slave wages keep it that way. I love the way the liberal middle classes bought into the "immigrants are good for the economy" myth, strange isn’t it that the most likely groups to be unemployed are Bangladeshi and Afro Caribbean second or third generation immigrants. But that doesn’t matter to the liberals, As long as there works done for them and the price is low they'll turn and blind eye. "White Flight" of course ensues as soon as immigrant populations get to close to them, move away and leave the working classes to live with them, and look down their noses in disgust when they for the bnp. The other thing to take into account is that five or six years ago manual workers where in short supply, and so due to the economics of supply and demand the working class trades plumbers, brick layers, carpenters skills where in great demand and wages went up. No one complains when a middle class profession like an accountant or solicitor can charge £100 per hour but when a plasterer can charge £100 per day, suddenly the government take notice and two million poles arrive on the door step trowels in hand, how convenient.

I agree with you.I'm a carer and proud of it. We work long hours for a pittance of a pay.I'm fed up of being referred to as 'just an ar$ewipe' or even ex-carers saying they're no ar$ewipe. We get very little appreciation already!!! I'm out earning a living and enjoy my work it's just the hours and pay as we can't live on thin air.It makes me angry.When people think we are dumb cos we don't have academic qualifications this makes me mad.I'd like to see them work 70-90 hours a week and be able to afford and have the energy to study-pure ignorance!!!!

Not so much looked down on as down trodden!

I dont think that the working class are looked down on, thats too sweeping a generalisation its the chavs and non working class that are looked down on isnt it? As far as I am concerned if you work and you arent living in a mansion you are working class

The "working class" have been looked down upon since day one in Britain, a country with the strictest, most formal class system in the developed world! I can guarantee that the kids who were sent up chimneys or down mines weren't the sons of upper classes. Servants were tolerated, as long as they "stayed in their place" and didn't try to "get above their station" (both very British phrases btw) Upper classes were not expected to "marry beneath them" or even have a friendship with working classes. The only reason working classes "made Britain what it was" is that poor, uneducated people were exploited and forced into a cycle of poverty, lack of education and badly paid, dangerous work. I agree with your main point, that the class system is alive and well in the UK, but I disagree that it is a recent thing...

an office job is working class lady management is white collar

I agree. I consider myself working class and I enjoy my job most of the time. It would drive me crazy if I had to sit an an office or cubicle for 8 hours a day. The pay isn't the greatest but I'd rather do something I like for less money than something I don't like for more money. BTW, I live in the USA and it seems to be the same way here.

i think it is becouse the so called upper/lower middle class are not affected as much by the problems of immigration lawlessness and job competition. only the working class (non home owners and the like in general) have to compete with immigrants for homes and jobs also they tend to have to suffer with high crime in there streets ( i know crime happens everywhere but trust me it is far worse in soscial housing). if they in the middle classed had to suffer in the same way then this country would be VERY different. when the immigrants start to move in to office jobs and general pen busher positions then you will see the middle classes starting to take the same stance as the working class