Le Middle Class noveau; Chief Feature Writer Jason Beattie in praise of all things middle class.(News)

From: The Birmingham Post (England) | Date: January 15, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

Let us celebrate the middle classes. It is time to sing their praises, let them parade through the streets, heads held high, as an example to us all.

Hosanna for the Chardonnay drinkers, the Sainsbury shoppers and the Espace drivers, for their time has come.

Tony Blair, a paragon of bourgeois-living, has hailed the arrival of a new middle class. Le Middle Class nouveau c'est arrive.

The Prime Minister talks of a revitalised middle class which will sweep away the old establishment, a middle class which will keep Labour in power for at least ten years.

"A middle ...

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