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A representation of working class / ruler class

Sacksville | 08.01.2009 23:34

Tests of class are usually confined to whether a person calls a napkin a serviette, a sitting room a lounge or a lavatory a toilet. The stacking of coloured bricks by a toddler was not seen to signify anything very much. Until now.

The debate over social standing in Britain is about to take a new twist with an admission by the Government that class attributes can be seen in toddlers and that Britain's class divide in education is one of the worst in the Western world.

David Miliband, the Minister of State for school standards, revealed the findings in an article for a magazine produced by the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) and circulated among teachers.

The gap between the rich and poor is growing larger each day. The working class is already becoming shorter, uglier and dumber than the ruling class because of theire inbreeding:
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6057734.stm

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