Are the UK’s upper classes willing to risk the lives of manual workers?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/11/manual-workers-likelier-to-die-from-covid-19-than-professionals

In a Survation poll on 16th to 23rd April, those at Occupation Level 1 and 2 were the most likely to highly trust the UK Government to provide them with information on Covid-19 (57.2%) while those at levels 3 and 4 were the least likely to do so (47.6%, 49.3%). The levels are not defined.

https://www.survation.com/survation-covid-19-public-attitude-tracker/

In an Opinium poll on 5th May, the week when the UK became the country with Europe’s highest coronavirus death toll, car-owning professionals were the group most likely to approve of Boris Johnson’s leadership (56%) while the non-car-owning working class group were the least likely to (37%). Asked to what extent they thought he had the nation’s best interests at heart, the results were very similar at 55% and 32% :

https://www.opinium.co.uk/public-opinion-on-coronavirus-5th-may/

2 thoughts on “Are the UK’s upper classes willing to risk the lives of manual workers?

  1. What the selfish,delusional, union jack waving English mediocre middle classes think or believe are a complete and utter irrelvance to myself as one who is fiercely proud his freedom of mind and my upbringing as the son of Irish immigrant
    Shale & coal miner
    Other than i know my

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  2. What the selfish,delusional, union jack waving English mediocre middle classes think or believe are a complete and utter irrelvance to myself as one who is fiercely proud his freedom of mind and my upbringing as the son of Irish immigrant
    Shale & coal miner
    Other than i know my true foe and as far as I am concerned it is they that shall fall
    As they settle comfortably upon the bough of utter mediocrity of the tree of false success they have climbed
    The fall commenced long ago but tis the sudden stop that should concern them most as they whoopee for their false gods
    In their terminal descent

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