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Maybe because going to uni is better than being on the dole!

Well I'll accept that's what you meant but don't agree that is how the post came across. However, maybe the problem is we have different definitions of elite. To me, it is not just people in top jobs, it is people who have got there with the benefit of the old boy network. Not everyone is...

I don't agree that that is what his post implies, although I can't say whether that is what he meant to say. There is no reference to the fact that he thinks the Swindon resident is an uneducated person, merely that his background will preclude him from having an understanding of the law or...

Can you explain how someone from a privelaged background studying the same degree as the council kid from Swindon has a better understanding of military strategy?

Whilst the statistics quoted don't make for good reading, surely to have a reasoned debate you need to compare the current stats with those, say, 30 years ago and then 60 years ago and maybe even 90 years ago. The situation is far from ideal and representative but is it moving in the right...