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Why is it so wrong to be stuck in the middle? Britain's middle class is the target of a relentless and undeserved onslaught
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LISTENING to the news recently, I've been struck by the number of
references to a despised and derided group. Tony Blair has reassured
us that his education reforms are not for their benefit. Gordon Brown
has made it clear that they will get short shrift from him when he is
anointed prime minister (elections are for the little politicians).
John Prescott plans to crack down on them. Sir Ian Blair, the
commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, has attacked them as
separatists with a dangerous attitude to the police. Even the Duke of
Edinburgh has distanced himself from them.
So who are they? ...
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