I am glad you mentioned the phrase "hard-working families,", as this has always irked me! Presumably the children in these families are not necessarily expected to work hard. And what about people who can't work hard, through no fault of their own, such as disability, or sickness? I am sorry to hear Keir Starmer trotting out the phrase so often.
Language is indeed a very important element of communicating ideas and the feelings that go with them but they don’t exist in isolation. The phrases of the right you mention are part of a narrative that is based on a truth that people experience but which is twisted to stoke division. The great irony is that it suits the twins - wealth and power - and resonates with the dispossessed building resentment not against the austerity imposed by the twins but hapless scapegoats. The left, meanwhile, inhabit a semi-utopian world that as you point is characterised by intellectualism and jargon with few - if any - bridges from our current reality. This is of course the difference between the certainty of the lie and the complexity of the truth. If we don’t want the devil to have all the best tunes we’d better learn how to make the complex palatable and rock it!
The "Idle Rich" is a term more common in the 1950s when I was a child. Appropriate then for the thousands who attended midweek horse race meetings whilst my and my school friends fathers worked a five and a half day week some, shift workers usually for eight plus hours a day and time spent cycling or walking several miles to their place of employment, as I did when I started work, cycling six miles to clock on by 8am and clock off and on again for lunch and off again at 5 pm.
I am glad you mentioned the phrase "hard-working families,", as this has always irked me! Presumably the children in these families are not necessarily expected to work hard. And what about people who can't work hard, through no fault of their own, such as disability, or sickness? I am sorry to hear Keir Starmer trotting out the phrase so often.
Language is indeed a very important element of communicating ideas and the feelings that go with them but they don’t exist in isolation. The phrases of the right you mention are part of a narrative that is based on a truth that people experience but which is twisted to stoke division. The great irony is that it suits the twins - wealth and power - and resonates with the dispossessed building resentment not against the austerity imposed by the twins but hapless scapegoats. The left, meanwhile, inhabit a semi-utopian world that as you point is characterised by intellectualism and jargon with few - if any - bridges from our current reality. This is of course the difference between the certainty of the lie and the complexity of the truth. If we don’t want the devil to have all the best tunes we’d better learn how to make the complex palatable and rock it!
The "Idle Rich" is a term more common in the 1950s when I was a child. Appropriate then for the thousands who attended midweek horse race meetings whilst my and my school friends fathers worked a five and a half day week some, shift workers usually for eight plus hours a day and time spent cycling or walking several miles to their place of employment, as I did when I started work, cycling six miles to clock on by 8am and clock off and on again for lunch and off again at 5 pm.