How Big A Role Does Class Play In Modern Britain? (2011)

Posh, Poor & Middle Class Brits: Britain has certainly become more multi-cultural and diverse, but does its traditional class system still stand? It seems the divide between the rich and the poor is growing ever-more prominent.
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Whilst well-off Richard Bailey's hobby is rowing gondolas, Adam Bloor is a young homeless man simply trying to build a life for himself. "When you're homeless everybody looks down on you", he shrugs. As the divide between Upper Middle Class and Lower Middle Class, "which borders on being poor", becomes more defined, the gap between rich and poor only seems to be getting bigger.
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[@andrewrobinson2565]

As soon as I left the UK in 1986, I felt the weight of being "lower class" lift off my shoulders. For the past 6 years I've had a more useful passport too. 😊

[@tayetrotman]

I definitely think class is still a thing, it isn’t as strong as it used to be. But it still exists.

[@comtaar2245]

As someone from the UK once said to me: ‘we never had a revolution’. I think BJ is quite successful at reintroducing whatever class divisions may have disappeared in the UK.

[@montygemma]

Too right it exists. I applied for a job assistant curator at a famous stately house and I was more than qualified with masters degrees and diplomas I've got. I told my landlord who knew the estate well and told him of my application and that I'd hand delivered it to the estate. He said" you turned up there in that old car of yours and spoke to them with your West Country accent, add that to the rough Comprehensive school you went to on the form You've got no chance". He was right I got the quickest rejection letter ever, took about 36 hours to arrive.

[@khalidalali186]

lol

[@Foxingban]

you're crazy, classism is even worse now

[@tayetrotman]

@@Foxingban So, you sincerely believe that the class system now is stronger than it was in the early 20th and the 19th centuries? Because that’s what I was referring to by ‘used to be’.

[@cymro6537]

0:44 'The world's oldest democracy' Umm...........nope The *Althing* Parliament was formed in 930AD in *Iceland*

[@cymro6537]

This is yet another study that equates _British_ and _English_ as being synonymous.

[@pch2230]

You need to look up the definition of "equates".

[@reecemacaulay1690]

just saying it upper class ( divided into aristocratic and old wealth,and “new money) the middle class ( upper middle and middle) working ( divided into the “skilled working “ like engineers and “unskilled working” laborers and the “working poor” those whom have a job but need benefits and government support to survive) and then the “underclass” the homeless poor pensioners and long term unemployed ( usually found in depressed former industrial areas like hull or sink estates in places like Sheffield)

[@ramankaur5519]

Thank you

[@jneal21]

Is cab driver a working class job

[@infernogamers168]

@@jneal21 yes

[@thedom6209]

new money is not upper class

[@casparandechs4758]

@@thedom6209 you don't know what you're talking about. This whole idea of class is flawed in our modern society. There is such a variety of individuals that it's hard to determine exactly what denotes class.

[@jeremysmith4044]

This video is losing me as it doesn't appear on topic.

[@stephenabootman6051]

I shan't return to Britain. As I am merely middle class, I fit in much better in Canada, my true nationality. I've embraced the Maple Leaf and eschewed the Union Jack and John Bull. The Queen is merely an abstraction to me now. 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

[@palmadiolio3157]

Canada is part of the Commonwealth

[@closethedoornow7538]

Well we shall do our best to get by without you.

[@blazzz13]

@@closethedoornow7538 We're not doing very well at that are we- swimming in turds at the beach.

[@closethedoornow7538]

@@blazzz13 you think they don’t leak sewage into Canadian waters?

[@musqul8566]

@@closethedoornow7538 it's all good we have so much waters it feels like nothing.

[@worstoffsaboprivyethics8391]

What you will see in Britain that has changed since 1975: Backwards pansy walk Handing out trinkets without trinkets Keeping calm without carrying on Swedes Loose boats Beached whales without crowds Boarded up boarding schools Oil pumps Torn curtains in junk shops Outbound planes

[@ahdoeknogh]

For those who are lost: The conclusion of the topic is, the middle class plays the biggest role, as is expected in a just society.

[@tillfs7145]

more just than some others ... less just than other others ... just not as just as it could and should be

[@brianhammer5107]

Ye gods! "world's oldest democracy"? Might want to pick up a history book on Greece, mate

[@JFP1988]

Exactly, even the word democracy has the Greek roots.

[@xenaprince2717]

Maybe world's oldest democracy still in existence is what was meant.

[@gardengeek3041]

Interesting , but hard to tell if the content is on topic....There is a brief comment at the very end which refers to matters of class.

[@MairaBay]

I would say it's clear that it is not on topic. It is just reporting the life of different classes. Interesting, but not what the title of the video suggests. You can report it as misleading title.

[@buskingkarma2503]

Good manners,clean,responsible good work ethics and educated is what gives someone class, not how much money they have.

[@Fallen_Venus]

It's not always black and white to classify yourself. I feel and am perceived as middle class but according to tests you can take, am working class. But my situation also changed when I got divorced and my life downgraded. Also nowadays not everyone middle class own a property. Tines have changed. Is class also a state of mind and outlook?

[@francismausley7239]

I'll look for the gondola next visit... "Ever since the seeking of preference and distinction came into play, the world hath been laid waste. It hath become desolate. Those who have quaffed from the ocean of divine utterance and fixed their gaze upon the Realm of Glory should regard themselves as being on the same level as the others and in the same station." ~The Universal House of Justice, Baha'i Writings

[@MichaelLantz]

What is the difference between the class system in The United States vs Britain.How many Britons achieve The British Dream?

[@crazyforcoffee5950]

Michael Lantz Americans dream big, big house, more than one car and lots of money. British dream is style, having connections to the royal family, going to posh schools and working at the London stock exchange. Posh Britons tend to wear a kind of Victorian style clothing. Whereas rich Americans just wear what everyone else wears

[@mustavertwang]

There is no British Dream as you call it.We are for the most part ,wide awake!

[@MichaelLantz]

Didn't The Beatles and The Rolling Stones achieved The British Dream.John Lennon said in an interview "That he wanted to be just as big as Elvis Pressley and live in Mansion".I saw pictures of The Beatles and The Stones homes ,and they were living in Victorian Mansions in the 1960's.

[@mustavertwang]

A dream is not an ambition or achievement.

[@MichaelLantz]

I think if you go from being a Chav to Posh within a short period is a great achievement.

[@RoibinDeargFiadhaich]

Omg James is literally a Chris Lilley character its uncanny

[@relocatetoItaly]

Sitting on the beach in Venice watching the Sun ..Huh ??????

[@aurepaschale7692]

I wondered about that too. Probably Venice Beach, California. Not Venice, Italy. Actually, now I think of it, the narrator did say something about them achieving a hippy California lifestyle in England. So, likely Venice Beach, Cali.

[@angelicar451]

The worlds oldest democracy is Greece.

[@corkcamden9878]

England is the world's oldest democracy? I think not. That being said, I will be the first to scream as loud as I'm able, we in the U.S.A. have been skirting the line twixt democracy and dictatorship for the last several years and it scares the socks off me.

[@evelynwilson1566]

I hope Blue is ok. The Big Issue is a great thing but sadly some scammers have taken advantage I think. My heart goes out to Blue. I hope he got a caravan. I also want to spend my days on a horse😅

[@l.ferrandino5939]

I wonder where that guy, Adam, is living 7 years later....

[@relocatetoItaly]

Class has nothing to with money and everything to do with well founder good education not just schooling

[@infinitecanadian]

Class is important to Great Britain. It is something culturally worth having.

[@controversialchristian2378]

Yeah, maybe to you!

[@avapatino6058]

Why do you say this?

[@mikeelmira]

I don’t understand why but I guess you have your reasons

[@Gggwoww]

@@OOO0OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO The thing is, if you saw how a lot of working-class people live, it does hurt people. The higher classes are born into this just as the working classes are. But wealth and power hoarding is rife.

[@ryanhuntrajput474]

I concur

[@alisonlee1770]

There should be no class of people, God created us all equal.

[@Er.Sunil.Pedgaonkar]

Thank You.But All over world, property,money,finance,education, job & std of living, looks of individual matters & decides his/her social class

[@frankfang2146]

14：30 you can see the director from the mirror

[@philippestopandgo]

That homeless chap keeps making excuses for himself. Listen to Thatcher and be your best self.

[@nataliekhanyola5669]

FUCK Margaret Thatcher.

[@bt3743]

Unfortunately it's very hard to listen to a gravestone

[@zulubalandre9851]

welcome aboard the lunatic express...

[@frayserken]

so you have a boat and the proceeds you give to africa hmm! is there poverty in uk you charity begins at home

[@ontheletuatua9896]

they even have chinatown korean and japanesetown at there

[@dingleberryridesagain3606]

Yup,I hope to become upper class someday,they seem such a lovely bunch,and most of them speak English,I know a few upper crust Irish,now they are special,charming,but seem to lack essential table manners some are not fully house trained,,the Scottish upper crust look like demented horses with huge teeth and cannot speak English,I believe outhouses are still available at all dem big houses the maids are from Sussex,little beauties!!!

[@aculligan56234]

I'm Irish and I'm proud of my parents. To hell with the British Aristocrats. Bunch of old pervs.

[@gullwingstorm857]

I like the class system. It's traditional.

[@puzpachannel2829]

I like see this video

[@angelicar451]

The worlds. .

[@theodorehuynh8829]

Hi peeps

[@ramankaur5519]

Hi Sajjan

[@theodorehuynh8829]

I’m in his class but I’m not Sajjan

[@paulfmurphy617]

good video but last I checked the U.S. is the worlds oldest Democracy not the UK as stated @:47

[@prepperjonpnw6482]

It depends on how you count the years of an elected body involved in governing the nation. In this case they are probably referring to how long Parliament has existed in the U.K. or more precisely England. In that case Parliament in England began June 15, 1215 with the signing of the Magna Carta. So by that reckoning England is the oldest democracy predating America by almost 600 years. Or you can start counting in 1688 with “the Great Revolution” which gave us in 1689 the Bill of Rights and the act of settlement in 1701. So even starting the count at that point England’s democracy still predates the US by roughly 100 years. Most historians use the 1215 date as the first formal constitution being enacted. By the way I hold two advanced degrees one of which is for history so I’m not just some bloke leaving a random comment lol Cheers

[@cymro6537]

@@prepperjonpnw6482 What about the Althing Parliament in Iceland founded in 930AD?

[@jesussanchezherrero5659]

Anglo-Saxons always so full of themselves. The first parlamentarian system for which we have records was established in León, Spain. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortes_of_Le%C3%B3n_of_1188

[@redsnake224]

In Germany we would say : "Man kann sich den Inhalt von Videos die länger als 10min sind schlechter merken als den Inhalt von Videos unter 10min " --> Lehrer sollten sich nicht wundern wenn wenige Schüler sich beim zusammenfassen des Videos melden

[@thecultofjohnnydelr.soulsw7010]

Poppycock!