"Most middle-class people, including many with professional qualifications such as lawyers, accountants, surveyors, architects, engineers etc, are employees, wage slaves who are no less vulnerable to being sacked, exploited or generally buggered about than the horny-handed sons of toil on the shop floor."

Mr Jones 'hits-the-nail-on-the-head' here. And don't forget that many people from 'traditional' working class families took advantage of a brief window of opportunity, and increased social mobility, between the mid-60s and the fateful year of 1979 (when Maggie came to power), and became 'middle class' professionals.

Unfortunately, those steeped in political ideology can rarely see any shades of grey - so we still get the term 'middle class' thrown around as an insult.