[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Livia

Saying I have a city-centric viewpoint intimates that I am out of touch with the real working world, and I am not, I just see it from a different perspective. I worked hard for my career, gave up things, worked two, sometimes three jobs to get through uni. There's nothing special about me, I went to an inner-city comprehensive, my father was a soldier and then a paramedic. I swapped my social life for study, and if after all that I had settled for something that wasn't what I wanted and didn't give me the lifestyle I worked for then that would have been my own fault. I would never have considered being a politician and I'm sure there are lots of qualified people from working class backgrounds that feel the same.

Anyhoo, I'm sure at some point we will stumble across a topic where we can share some middle ground. This isn't going to be it though.

A lot of people work hard not everyone is academic thats the difference, just because someone works in a low paid job doesn't mean they don't give it their all, public sector are on a pay freeze why does that not apply to MPs?