Champagne socialists: do not sit in a bar quaffing champagne whilst proclaiming how passionate you are about equality

Why do the Eton in-crowd consider themselves part of the unwashed socialist masses?

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So as we’ve all been repeatedly told, nearly a third of all Exeter students are privately educated.

Whether you see this as a fantastic opportunity to never leave your Eton/Radley/Harrow chums behind or a damning insight into the UK education system, there is one thing that can’t be denied…

The vast majority of these students are hugely privileged and have not had to work a day in their life.

Daddy pays for their rent/bills/booze/Mini Cooper and a job is just something left to the Muggles.

The rest of us are stuck with this stuff…

So please, can somebody try and explain where these high society students are getting the idea that they are part of the unwashed socialist masses?

As someone that has worked since the age of 15 I’m never really sure if it makes me want to laugh or cry when the Eton-educated hordes of Exetah turn around to say that my Conservative principles are disgusting and rooted in privilege.

Indeed, maybe some of them even believe it, but regardless of my own principles how is it possible, from their position, to claim someone else has principles founded in privilege?

Furthermore, one lecturer, who is a self-declared anarchist, said that ‘I should quit my job to focus on my degree’, I briefly said that unfortunately bills do not pay themselves and neither does supper appear magically on the table so I had little choice on the matter.

His response was truly out of this world… “Do what I did and get your parents to help you”. WOW. Just wow.

Suddenly how the opinions are being formed by these newly liberalised 18 year olds seems to be crystal clear.

Proclaiming that one should act in a selfless manner and give away at least half of your monthly income is a very easy statement to make if indeed one has never had to go out and really earn a penny in their lifetime!

We can’t all withdraw cash from the “Bank of Mum and Dad”

Of course, this is not to say socialism shouldn’t exist (everybody has to have mistakes to learn from), but please, do not sit in a bar quaffing champagne with a signet ring on your pinkie whilst proclaiming no one could possibly understand how passionate you are about equality.

Honestly, if it weren’t so darn tedious it would be immensely laughable but when you’re the one serving them from the other side of the bar it really does get odious.

So here is my plea: If you are just so determined to support those with less than you and so willing to tarnish everyone else as uncaring and selfish – do something about it.

No, I don’t mean hold meetings and discuss the plight of modern day feminism, I mean DO something.

Get a job, pay your rent, don’t get hand outs from your parents and then make sure you split every hard-earned penny that you earn evenly amongst all sectors of society and then, and only then, come back to me and tell me how selfish I am for keeping the money I earn to put food on my table and electricity in my house.