I've found the Edwina Currie clip online!!! Here's the link:
And the Edwina/Jack bit is around the 32:00 mark. I love it!!!
omg you're amazing for finding this, thank you!
I shouldn't laugh....but....EC is entirely correct and I think someone's origins story matters when they're positioning themselves in the way JM has chosen to. That's not to say you can't be rich and advocate for the poor at all, Jeremy Corbyn is from a comfy background (hence why his parent's £1.xmil Shropshire manor kept getting dragged into things) but he has never centred his narrative in the work he does, and never played absurd class cosplay. She centres herself in this work, so people are going to be rightfully shocked & rightfully call it out because it simply doesn't sit right, sorry.
It's weirdly a quite of the moment discussion regarding privilege, it's like how white people who've got
tit lives struggle with the concept of white privilege. It's not saying that you're minted with an easy life by default as a white person, it's saying that you are not being blocked from achieving those things on the basis of your skin colour. JM's failure to max the potential of her grammar school place is sad, I'm sure it was for a variety of reasons that we won't discuss as we don't know, but she cannot deny that she will have benefitted from a number of positive externalities just from being in a grammar? She'll have had a better quality of education even if it didn't score in those exams, had more exposure to arts/history/extra curriculars than say, the requires improvement
tit hole down the road. All of those things shape you to some degree and yet she's so embittered that she's got 4 GCSEs that she can't see that? What a sad outlook on life, honestly.
Babe, same! re: the tit comprehensive. There are no grammar schools in my area so I find that whole thing so weird. Like I understand the idea of wanting to give intelligent WC pupils a better education but 11 is very young and also the privilege is inescapable as not all kids have parents with the time, effort, money and knowledge to encourage / supervise them with studying
She was privileged to go to a grammar school and if she failed, that’s on her. I don’t hold that against her as all teenagers duck something up - but her countering the point with “I only got 4 GCSEs” is just irrelevant
Also not to mention how she ended up with that 27k job *coughs* nepotism
Yeah that is an incredibly generous starting salary especially for a non-grad outside of London, is that usual for the fire service?! I'm conscious of doxing myself but a HoD for a technical discipline & that's how much we'd budget for a junior candidate (so fresh grad or +1 year experience) with strong academics and a BSc, in central London.