Jim, students do have problems but you don't help yourself with that link. A snippet:

"About her life in Liverpool, she says: "It was crazy expensive. The nearest supermarket was a £10 taxi ride away from my flat despite living quite close to the centre; buying food wasn't expensive, but going-out costs and the cost of things to do was really high."

Now I know the University of Liverpool quite well, and there is a Tesco Express right there on campus, there is a LIDL on London Road, its a short walk down Brownlow Hill to ALDI, and there is a vast ASDA at Sefton Park. So you do your shopping between lectures and home. And as for "going-out costs", Liverpool is about the cheapest place in the country to go out, and how often do you do it anyway when you are supposed to be studying. When I did my degree we had Saturday evening off, and Sunday morning for chapel, that was about it. "Things to do"??? Sounds like the lecturers weren't setting enough work.

Student rents are a problem, but Liverpool is again one of the cheaper places.

Now I agree that NHS staff are under huge pressure, courtesy of Mr. Jeremy C. Hunt who seems against all reason to have kept his job today. But thats nothing to with NHS staff being working class, its more to do with perceptions of the public sector. I think many people would not even regard NHS staff as working class, simply because they are public sector.