"Are the young shelf stackers and care skivvies that I see in my local town really achieving more than their father's generation?"
Of course they are not, thanks to the system you support
"it is people like you and Jim who frighten off people from poorer backgrounds from improving their lives with ridiculous scare stories."
These "scare stories" have all been back by links to their origins - press reports and national surveys - from the Tory Telegraph to the Guardian
It is people like you who are denying facts in defence of your system who are telling the porkies
Can't speak about Steve, but coming from the background I do, I don't even need these to know the realities of the situation - family members are faced with it when they wish to educate their children - they chose the wrong bubble apparently
Jim Carroll