Britain now has 7 social classes....

[PAB]

Social Scientists have redefined the traditional divide of class - Upper, Middle and Lower- to 7 new categories.

The 7 new classes (according to the BBC Lab study):

Elite - The most privileged class. High level of all three capitals (economic, cultural and social).
Established middle class - High levels of all three capitals but not as high as Elite. Gregarious and culturally engaged
Technical middle class - New, small class, with high economic capital but less culturally engaged. Relatively few social contacts.
New affluent workers - Medium levels of economic, but higher levels of cultural and social capital. Young and active.
Emergent service workers - New class with low economic but high 'emerging' cultural capital. High social capital. Young and often found in urban areas.
Traditional working class - Low on all three capitals, but not the poorest. Older on average than other classes.
Precariat, or precarious proletariat - Most deprived group, with low levels of all three capitals.

See Here
The online calculator The online Class Calculator on the BBC

Apparently im no longer lower class im now - "Precariat". :roll:

As far as im concerned this less to do with social class and more to do with social status, taking into account an individuals "social capital" and "cultural capital" etc.

 

[tuxbox]

[sarcasm]Sounds like it is time for the UK to have a Marxist revolution.[/sarcasm]

 

[theyounghistorian77]

I fall under the class of "Emergent service workers". That's not really a surprise is it?

 

[malicious_bloke]

We need a three dimensional version of that two ronnies sketch now...

 

[PAB]

[sarcasm]Sounds like it is time for the UK to have a Marxist revolution.[/sarcasm]

sure, ill bring beer.

 

[malicious_bloke]

It was tried in the 70s, it got thatcher'd

 

[PAB]

It was tried in the 70s, it got thatcher'd

Id hardly call a protest against the poll tax and a national miners strike a "Marxist Revolution" , its not exactly on the same scale as the Russian revolution of 1905 or 1917.

In fact the Marxist tendencies that existed at the time i.e. the 70's, existed predominately and most successfully in the Militant tendency of the labour party and it was not Thatcher that dissolved that tendency rather the right wing of the labour party led by Neil Kinnock.

 

[tuxbox]

It was tried in the 70s, it got thatcher'd

I believe it was Fabian Socialism that was tried. A Marxist Revolution would require killing or imprisoning (forced labors camps and/or re-eduction camps) the rich and anyone else who disagrees with Marxism. Just to name a few or the evil atrocities that occur during a Marxist Revolution.

 

[malicious_bloke]

It was tried in the 70s, it got thatcher'd

Id hardly call a protest against the poll tax and a national miners strike a "Marxist Revolution" , its not exactly on the same scale as the Russian revolution of 1905 or 1917.

In fact the Marxist tendencies that existed at the time i.e. the 70's, existed predominately and most successfully in the Militant tendency of the labour party and it was not Thatcher that dissolved that tendency rather the right wing of the labour party led by Neil Kinnock.

Well quite. I may have been being somewhat facetious

What is quite interesting, however, is the political activities of Arthur Scargill other than the miners' strike.

He denounced the anti-communist Solidarity movement in Poland (LINKY) during their struggle against the authorities.

He started the "socialist labour party" in the 90s after the real labour party moved away from the left and distanced itself from the unions. The socialist labour party has a hilarious bunch of policy positions including but not limited to re-opening Britain's mines. Because, you know, resurrecting an unproductive industry at the taxpayers expense as a sort of make-work scheme is a brilliant plan. :roll:

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_Labour_Party_%28UK%29)

And finally, he had a massive spat with his successor as the head of the National Union of Mineworkers when the guy tried to cut off his gravy train. He'd managed to wangle himself and his wife a house at the union's expense, paid for until their deaths and the new guy considered this to be an outrageous financial liberty.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10252397

He's a funny bloke as leftie scroungers go

 

[PAB]

Well his opposition to the polish group solidarity is put into context when you consider he was a sympathizer with Stalinism....
I have came across the Socialist Labour Party before, the policy regarding coal mining is silly but i can understand where it comes from, the core of the SLP comes from mining backgrounds. Its more of a fixation than a serious policy, it comes from old time miners who have spent many years of their life mining coal and the communities that grew up around that.

But saying all that at least Scargill was pretty militant in his prime and had the back bone to criticism the Tory government and take action, despite his many, many faults.