It's been very amusing to observe the knee jerk reaction to my old mate Geoff Evans sticking it to the Labour Party on Newsnight about the shortage of any genuinely working class MPs (the Beast of Bolsover excepted of course). Some members of the House are apoplectic and choking over their pinot grigio and antipasti, sorry, I meant brown ale and chip butties.
I thought it would be fun to investigate the careers of the most vociferous of the Twitter commenters currently riding their proletarian high horses smug in the self-satisfaction that they are at one with the people of, for instance, Stoke.
So here we have it (from Wikipedia)
Jonathan Ashworth: Within 2 years of graduating from Durham
was working for the Labour Party as a Political Research Officer
Liz McInnes: St Anne's Oxford, MSc University of Surrey
worked in the NHS as a senior biochemist.
Barbara Keeley: University of Salford, IBM Systems Engineer
& Independent Consultant.
David Lammy: Choral Scholarship to Peterborough Cathedral,
King’s School Peterborough, SOAS, Harvard, called to the Bar.
Michael Dugher: University of Nottingham, National Chairman
of Labour Students. Head of Policy at the AEEU, SPAD.
Diana Johnson: Brunel, Barrister.
Lyn Brown: Roehampton. Social Worker.
R Blackman-Woods: University of Ulster PhD, Professor of
Social Policy.
As for the rest of them, deluded or what?
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