Working Class

The Sleaford Mods have said it at 5.00 minutes in on this video "I'm a bit weary of the old class thing, it obviously exists, I'm probably lower middle class, you know what I mean". I haven't read enough Marx and I have not studied for a Sociology Degree but there is something uncomfortable (for me) about the term. The Dutch interviewer asks why is it such a UK thing? Is it a UK thing or an English thing? There are a lot of what might be classically considered 'working class' in the South Wales valleys but why, because of history? because of the work that they used to do? because of who they voted for? The so called classic 'working class' in this area are now voting for UKIP. If you are a manual labourer, does this make you working class? Is it your behaviour, your attitude, your values that make you such or is is simply the amount that you earn or rather don't earn? The Shark Fisherman is asking an awful lot of questions in a post that he knows that not many will read. This is no longer syndicated through social media so it is only the loyal and curious who will occasionally check back and fore to see what is going on here.  Socialists and Socialism is inextricably linked to the old 'working class' and because there are less of them in numbers then as a political ideology it has been less popular as people have become more aspirational and 'middle class' whatever that means. It is time to get rid of these outdated labels. People are people, to tie yourself to a class, a tribe is to diminish and limit yourself unless you are comfortable enough to be a 'champagne socialist'. Political Warriors keep banging their heads against brick walls in trying to get people to agree with them, to see what they see and to vote for them but there are too many bright, shiny objects of distraction for us to be able to concentrate on anything so serious for too long.