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Ordinary People
We've heard a lot from Starmer about Labour doing things for "ordinary people".
What are ordinary people, and are you one?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Politicians of all colours haven't got the slightest idea about "ordinary people".
They don't know what life is like for us, the great unwashed. They don't know what it means to hold down a job: pay a mortgage: raise a family; the school run; the weekly shop; care for vulnerable members of the family, where applicable. They haven't got a clue.
Keir Starmer defined 'the working man' - presumably 'ordinary' - as someone who has no savings - and then changed his mind (there's a surprise!) and said 'the working man' can have savings. Anyone who has to work to cover his living costs is 'the working man'. Some earn more than others but then some make more effort than others.
I think Starmer holds a naïve view on what is an 'ordinary person'; an a priori concept,
Once in earlier times such a being was referred to as, 'The man on the Clapham omnibus', but 'The man on the Clapham omnibus' could be one of many extraordinary manifestations, from being a saint to being a murderer.