“I’m not a land-owner, rentier, or industrialist, so the Conservatives aren’t looking out for my interests. I’m not an industrial worker, so Labour isn’t either.”

Vote for the Tories, we represent dog-owners!

If you’re right that class is becoming irrelevant, and I hope so, I just pray that it drives political parties to draw up coherent themes in their policies, articulating broad principles for what they believe a government should do, and what it shouldn’t. Then we’ll see some interesting elections.

It’s a shame for both parties, because I think when you look at it from the kind of perspective you present, they’ve both become caricatures of themselves.

The core of the Party – certainly since the 1920s – has been the middling sort (folk like me). Some were business people, some were professionals… but many were just ordianry working men and women. The Tories I was brought up with weren’t rich (not that they were poor)…

Sadly this has faded – just as the Labour Party was captured by middle class public sector professionals (and is their ‘bitch’ these days), my party has drifted back into some sort of 19th century Torydom. A bunch of country Toffs masquerading at metropolitan sophistication. A world where “middle class” means having a nanny, a cleaner and a house in the country rather that “oh shit how can we pay the mortgage this month” or “do we get the car fixed or buy the kids new school shoes?”

…you get the point..