Lisa Mckenzie
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Working class academic. Anarchistic author. Think I look like Elsie Tanner but probably more Sue Pollard. lisa.mckenzie1968 @gmail .com
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The Working Class Collective's new project - Working Class Fantastic Spaces: An antidote to Martin Parr
You can find out all about our new project here - tomorrow we will give you the contact details so you can send us your - Working Class Fantastic Spaces -
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Harrods there are 500 of these little beauties in pockets and boxes all over your shop for your customers to find.
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I dont think I have seen anything as shameful as the
#TheBigNightIn
Andrew Lloyd Webber - and the fucking vile Gary Barlow asking the suffering British public to donate, they should have had Richard Branson and started a new band - called - Take Everything
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Its far sadder how laughing at and baiting working class people in the UK is used as sport by the middle class.
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.
@guardian
took the piss really havent you? I pitched an article to you and you've let someone else write an article using my worlds - let us speak for ourselves.
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As vile as the UKs housing system gets a building & homes built by an architect who believed in principles of dignified housing for all - stolen by the local council, evicted its working class residents then handed it to the property developers. Now selling at over a million
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I am really excited and happy to say that from September 2019 I will be in the Sociology department at Durham University. I cant wait to go back and live in a mining community, read and write and research and publish what is happening to working class people in the UK
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I've been warning about this for a long time the chattering classes especially the millennial have been griping about not buying a house at 23 none of them have been watching or interested in what is happening to older working class people.
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#Newsnight
I've been in universities 20 years I'm being honest in the last 5 years it's become virtually impossible for some people to have any speech never mind free. The University is a business that sells a qualification its no longer a place for learning or debate.
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Do we really need another long middle class story? We the working class already know about you. We watch you, encounter you & suffer you our whole lives. While you dont even know we exist. And Polly trust me Maureen knew you were a posh twat.
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I very rarely slate someone this openly because I understand social media isnt real life but this guy is a despicable grifter & clearly full of prejudices against working class people. Eddie Dempsey has more integrity & intelligence than this guy could even hope to know.
On a personal note...
I've held my tongue about this for a YEAR for legal reasons.
Now I can FINALLY speak openly!
Whatever comes next with Labour, I think people should know what Eddie Dempsey is.
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Now I'm back in the UK I honestly say what a shit show the US is - poverty everywhere. Its hard being skint in the UK but you do not want to be skint in the US. I have met people who have told me their stories. We have lessons to learn from the US but only as warnings.
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Do you know .
@Femi_Sorry
real problem is with Eddie Dempsey is? His class.
Femi's real problem is he believes that a working class man that sounds like Eddie should be emptying bins not talking about politics. I hope Eddie sues him down to his cratches.
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When I wrote about actual working class people in the Guardian this is the photo they wanted. No glamour shot like
#Jackmonroe
in a bath of money for actual working class women. We have to look & gritty.
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I've noticed as millennials start taking their places of power they are in mid 30s now how posh they are. If you want to know about social mobility look at how posh the 30 somethings are in the media, politics, creative industries. Posh & very London. Social mobility has stopped
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#MeAt20
no gap year - no inter-railing - no fucking backpacking building sheds in India - just a teenage mum on a council estate.
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For the first time in my life I am scared about my future I dont own a house, I'm 54 the things I need most is a safe affordable home, a steady job, and access to decent healthcare. The UK cannot and will not provide any of these things. We are in a neo liberal state of nature
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Today I finished my 110th interview with a working class leave voter. I started this in 2015. I'm a trained and experienced ethnographer. Yet still not taken seriously. Why? Because I'm working class & my research is about working class people
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This has got to stop - this is about the way we look at working class girl children - I cant keep reading these stories day after day. I want a 20 minute from
#Newsnight
about the way working class girls are never consudered victims because they cannot be born innocent.
Here's a part of the 20 minute BBC documentary about a child rapist, described by one MP as 'fawning', which includes the line: "The Syrian men in many ways appeared less sexually experienced than the girls they were supposed to have attacked.”
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I worked in a factory for 12 years I clocked in & when I clocked out there was such a sense of freedom knowing work has done, Fridays were brilliant. Since working in Higher Education I have never felt that freedom on leaving work. Because you never leave work.
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Watching the House of Commons this afternoon was very uncomfortable wasnt it? Hearing a debate about racism & sexism targeted on a named individual a black woman that was not allowed to answer or speak herself. And was passed over while others spoke about her.
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#KilledByMyDebt
I have to turn this off, knowing that people make money out of this level of misery. Evil fucking banks, baliffs, vulture capitalists, payday loans. Who are the real scum in our society? Its not the poor
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#Newsnight
only 7% of population go to Private schools but 100% of men in the top 4 jobs in the Country. So much regression. It may as well be 1824 in how the class system is working.
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#bbcqt
Spot on from Ian Hislop no longer can we accept the governments excuses of no being able to afford something 37 billion wasted on test & trace
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#Newsnight
apparently the 'free lunch days' are over. When were those days? Can someone tell me - I've worked ny arse off since starting work in the factory in 84 when I was 16. I've got fuck all to show for it.
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When you are posting about kids being at home and trying to do your academic job around that stop and have a think about those mothers living in tiny homes and having to go out to a cleaning/supermarket/warehouse job at 5am leaving thier kids alone for minimum wage.
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Lots of strange ideas about Phds on here I got funding for mine which was quite miraculous as a working class mother living on a council estate. I then spent 5 years in my community researching policy, poverty, class stigma & motherhood. It was/is important
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A message to all the far right groups talking about
#Nottingham
we are a completely multi cultural City where we all see ourselves as part of the wider community. There will be no takers for your division.
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#bbcqt
Jack Monroe the typical middle class stooge - they dont like working class people so they bring in acceptable fakes. Its always better to see the working class through the middle class lens
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Sell your shit on ebay like the rest of us have to.
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Just a word of warning to the millions of young working class people out there black and white please please be wary of the middle class they historically take over our movements and then tell us what should be important to us when they dont actually know. Dont let them in.
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Jack Monroe's new grift book is coming out .
@TrussellTrust
I hope you are not giving this to foodbank users - its shameful 'I hope this book gets us our forever home' she writes - time needs to be up for the poverty pimps.
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Its beyond time that in the social sciences academics creating unreadable, unwritable and disconnected text from society is over & finished. If you are a sociologist & someone working in Asda cant understand you - its a fail on you - not them.
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How
#Macron
can stand on the world stage and think he has any authority, is the complete example of the arrogance of the elite man.
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Seriously I'd rather walk to Paris to support the
#GiletsJaunes
than get the tube down to central London and support
#ExtinctionRebelion
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My chapter in this book is calked 'cloaking class' a method used by the middle class to hide their unfair unearned class privilege through 'seat saving' which keeps thier class privilege & simultaneously ensuring the working class are not welcome.
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From me why the working class are truly heroes. The working class should be hailed as Covid-19 heroes for enabling all our comfy quarantines — RT Op-ed
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Behold the real face of the middle class - entitlement & class hatred. Seems only the middle class are now entitled to be in unions & have that privilege to strike. The waiter, warehouse worker, delivery driver are far to precarious & still the middle class need to punch down.
In case you were wondering why junior doctors on £14 per hour are striking:
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What age was you when you first took a flight? I was 18 and went to Magaluf on an 18-30 holiday saved up weekly with Lun Poly for a year. Should working class people really be beaten over the head for this? My mum & Dad were 40 when they went abroad for the first time.
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'Home-permed-self - what the fuck is that suppose to mean? I suppose there's no chance a working class woman can speak for herself?
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Working Class People are like 'Thank Fuck Someone said this on the telly'
Bourgeoisie Left are like "But does she support Palestine"
She speaks for so many of us.
Rarely will you see a moment this powerful on television.
#BBCQT
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For those of you dont know the police on horses have always charged at who they see as 'the enemy within' they charged at miners families and children in Whitehall in 85 swinging battons at women and kids. Its what they do.
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Feel really sad that this never ever seems to end. Its not about North or South its about class. Its about class and then its about class again. Some academics dont want to know.
Students from northern England facing 'toxic attitude' at Durham University
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why is it difficult to talk about grooming gangs in the North of England is it because poor working class girls are so devalued their lives means nothing? Or is it because the men's ethnicity is too problematic to cope with? Because its not going away still happening
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Councils are actively running down council estates all over London to 'regenerate' them for the rich. Working class people matter London
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The people in Mansfield, Hull, Merthyr, Walsall & all other deindustrialised places do not deserve this constant narrative about them: racist xenophobic, left behind, old fashioned. These people are my family, my loved ones. Not hitting posts for journalists & politicians
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Thank God for the EU - we working class folks were scratting about in the mud eating shit before we joined, didn't organise unions, didn't fight or strike, didn't look after each other or build coops in the face of the industrial revolution, capitalism, and neo-liberalism
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I'm coming off here for a bit I cannot bear the racism, anti semitism, justifications of murder & barbarism. Some of you need to have a proper look at yourself. Your posting justifications for killing children. Its not a football match.
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Difficult complicated
#budget2016
explained analysed with diagram. You have to be an LSE academic to understand it.
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After years of thinking working class people need to be in Universities I'm begining to realise how wrong I've been. Universities are terrible toxic places for working class people, they destroy any confidence they have & We need alternatives now in our communities.
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Today is my birthday. It's also the day that my Dad refused to cross a picket line at his pit by Yorkshire flying pickets- Silverhill in Nottinghamshire our lives and our country changed forever. I was 16 on this day in 1984.
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How many little local cafes are closed about to go under would have loved to be part of the
#FreeSchoolMeals
at home programme instead bastard government gave big contractors who dont give a shit and are remote from our communities. Give us the resources to look after ourselves.
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This is the list of the 18 MPs in the whole of parliament that voted against Theresa May's 2014 Immigration Bill that was the foundation of the hostile environment. Whose names are not on it?
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Can I have an investigation when I was pregnant in 1988 everyone asked me about my babys skin colour & when he was born his black family called him milky bar kid. I needed to go and talk about it on Oprah but she wasnt available. So we lived skint in a council flat instead.
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Working class writers - never never be ashamed of not knowing about commas, or your spelling isn't great - its part of working class experience we had poor education that purposefully excludes us from writing.
IT IS NOT OUR SHAME TO BEAR
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I was invited to give evidence relating to social housing at
#Haringey
council. They were not Momentum members they were local councillors very frightened of
#ClaireKober
and at their wits end about
#HDV
. Kober et al. will be shown on the wrong side of history
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I hope this Crisis finally kills off the cult of celebrity and the luxury lifestyle - vacuous boring cunts making a career out of your boring fucking vacous lives. Is over - Kardashian - Clooney - Sussex - Beckham - Real Housewives of Cunty bollocks - fuck off
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6 years on & working class people are in a worse position than I could have imagined. Diminished by austerity & Covid & an extremely aggressive middle class narrating misrepresenting & dividing managable chunks in order to keep their own social position
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#GenerationGifted
we need to stop telling working class children that there is a ladder you can work hard and climb up. There isnt. Social mobility is a lie
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I've been in the North East for 2 moths now, and I can tell you this, it is far far far more expensive and difficult to use public transport to travel around the north than it is in the south. Never mind
#HS2
just get a proper public transport system for people in the north
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The Catalan fire service at the front. The same service that stopped bank repossession of homes in 2008
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Can we all agree that having billionaires no matter where they are from is very bad for sport, culture, arts, and any fair society. There is no need for anyone to have that much money or power.
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@WCSocQuotes
Level of prejudice towards all working class people is worse than I've ever known it - white working thick, racist, gammon, black working class gang, stabbing, Asian working class taking up resources, terrorism. We have been split from each other & the m.class have benefited
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Every single Labour councillor in Nottingham City voted for the cuts which will close libraries, care homes for the elderly, remove all funding for arts & culture & make 500 people redundant. Except for the Sheriff of Nottingham. We salute you
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@PaulEmbery
I think this section of the left have marched into a political dead end which where they now are stuck. They have to stay in the dead end & defend the dead end or make their way out of - some will - others will be simply cranks.
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No amount of book learning or any bourgeoise book learned socialist can ever match the working class courage if our convictions. If
#micklynch
has taught us something its about how many working class people are missing from the public sphere which is why he's become an phenomenon
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We have reached the goal. We've done it. I'm so overwhelmed we backed and supported each other. We have shown that working class people care about each others words. The book will be published and the illustrators paid. And we will look after each other.
Whooo hoo its launched Check out Lockdown Diaries of the Working Class (UK) by Lisa McKenzie on
@Kickstarter
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I met a woman and her family in Memphis who works in a care home at night and drives Uber in the day - her small kids are looked after by her aging mum. She is financially responsible for 3 generations. The only thing we have to learn from the US is to not do what they do.
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Everyone in the North East are ignoring Boris and listening to Nicola Sturgeon because we are closer to Edinburgh than London. I find that very very interesting.
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Is there anything as depressing as people queuing and clapping as the shops open. The last few months have taken the pressure off the consumer conveyor belt. People have had space to think. I found today quite depressing.
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Wonder how many of those that want a free Palestine & are against settler colonialism live in gentrified areas or student villages which have pushed out the original people. I've been writing a book about this for 5 years & gentrification & colonialism is a very similar process.
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Women are working class too. And talented, creative and missing.
Campaign highlighting lack of working class representation in the cultural and creative sector
#TalentDoesNotDiscriminate
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Could you imagine a course at a University working class studies - consisting of working class film, art, literature, social movements, policy and the working class, the international working class, global capitalism and the working class. There would be a waiting list for it.
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I've written this for Spiked about that poor baby im Skegness because they are the only ones that let me write about class in Britain by a working class woman who is desperately sad & seethingly angry
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I might not have written everything I needed to write, published the masses of amount of research that I have waiting to be written - in 4 star journals over the last two years. I've been teaching, and Im proud of that. Thankyou .
@MiddlesexUni
for giving me this opportunity.
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Anyone who considers themselves on the left or an anarchist & supporting or making excuses for the Iranian Revolutionary guard a brutal & despicable authoratarian regime that terrorises its own people especially women - look in the mirror hard & see what you have become. Its ugly
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Please support this My grandad was in here when he was dying from the pit dust on his lungs. And this was our only holiday we ever had. Campaign to save miners’ holiday camp near Skegness
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This has to stop - middle class people claiming working class struggle. Its an insult to all the working class and allows the middle class to feel warm & safe in their illusions of what class means in the UK.
Jack Monroe is a disgrace but she isnt the only one.
Jack Monroe holding her 7th book in her hands. Wonderful. She can't read it though, unfortunately, as she's taken the lightbulbs out. Absolute fantasist.
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@craigstone_
I'm not faceless - my account is me & Jack Monroe is a poverty pimp that uses working class people's lives for her career. When she does this she continues the narrative about the poor being stupid & takes space & platforms that working class people should have.
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Anyone wants to put a bet on - no matter what Tier we are in - University students are going to be strong armed into going back to campus in 3 weeks.
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Theres nothing unconscious about classism in Britain its a purposeful & functional act of reproducing hierachies where the middle class work for a class of itself.
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#WiganCasino
like so many working class cultural spaces only exist in our memories - no listed status for the working class. Imagine knocking down the Albert Hall in London for a shopping centre. If its a working class cultural art form its devalued.
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So excited & humbled to be invited to talk about the British Working Class with Didier Eribon & Ken Loach & Paul Laverty at the Film Academy in Vienna. I have to pinch that little girl in Sutton in Ashfield on Carsic Estate sometimes to let her know she is doing good things
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Have we realised how quickly its become normalised that we cant afford to put the heating on. I grew up freezing cold in a coal miners house. I'm 54 and worked everyday of my life since 15 and now I'm worried about the light bill.
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Ive been saying for years now that the working class are belligerent they dont like middle class people bossing them about. They interpreted this Labour party as teachers, Vicars, social workers looking down on them. That 'being looked down on" evokes powerful responses.
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Do you know who is also emboldening the far right? Bourgeois left, Liberal identity politics and middle class crankery. They can never reflect on their own crap politics.
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Theres too much of the bourgeois left the Grace Blakelys, the Owen Jones & the Novara media speaking 'for' working class people & not enough working class speaking for themselves
#micklynch
has smashed the myth that only the middle class can hold the middle class media to account
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Why are academics who think of themselves as somehow radical or a socialist tweeting and pledging binding gushing allegiance to their institutions this week because the department has risen in the University rankings. When last week they were tweeting for revolution.
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On sunday I visited Karl Marx Hof in Vienna social housing over 100 years old still good quality working class community lots of public transport, washouse, school,shops,art work, gardens good ideas never get old. Why wont the UK provide social housing now?
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I'm sorry I've had to write this AGAIN.
Posh male students holding competitions to shag ‘poor’ girls shows the total lack of respect working-class women get in Britain
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@NicolaAHarding
She needs to ignore the landlord and stay in. The landlord has no right to do that. They can ask you to be out you don't have to say yes.
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