Good gracious! Has he only discovered that! (Of course, he hasn't. But it's politically expedient for him to say that just now 'cos he's having brutal negotiations with [middle class] hospital consultants .)
The rich milk the middle class (in fact, need them to cook their accounts, etc);
The middle class milk the working class;
The working class milk the young and the unemployed (by insisting on minimum wages and fiddling overtime and thus keeping many young people out of employment)
In nation-state-sized welfare, health and social systems without local community checks and balances, there is no possibilility of restraining the worst aspects of this pecking order.
Keith Hudson Keith Hudson, 6 Upper Camden Place, Bath, England
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