We need to get rid of the "chav" culture

What? Because someone else makes a ridiculous statement, I'm the worst poster?

Please go.

'Chav', the legitimised insult used to describe the poor, a group considered fair game for any kind of humiliation by the right-wing press. The Sun and the Mail make money by attacking this group. They are owned by offshored oligarchs who live in billion-dollar mansions and think up new ways to insult British poor people. Great.

My family earns below the poverty line, we live in a council house, and my political views are generally left-wing, but I still agree with this. I hate how the whole 'chav' thing is causing all poor people to be lumped together as one group of wasters who have kids to get more child benefit, are too lazy to work, are addicted to drugs/alcohol etc. Plus it's horrible how these kids are being raised to be violent drug addicts just like their parents. The parents need to be sorted out, got off drugs, and made to get back into work, and the kids need better education and opportunities to break out of this way of life.

No-one uses the word to describe the poor. They use it to describe those types. The fact you would suggest that is actually quite insulting to poor people.

So much ignorance on this thread. It makes me feel sick!

No-one uses the word to describe the poor. They use it to describe those types. The fact you would suggest that is actually quite insulting to poor people.

'Chav', the legitimised insult used to describe the poor, a group considered fair game for any kind of humiliation by the right-wing press. The Sun and the Mail make money by attacking this group. They are owned by offshored oligarchs who live in billion-dollar mansions and think up new ways to insult British poor people. Great.

Ignorance on the left side again.

Do you actually believe half of the nonsense you write?

I should direct you to the book 'Chavs', by Owen Jones. However, I'm sure you're too closed minded to look into it.

Says you.

I recommend this excellent book by Owen Jones, 'Chavs', which describes how the term has been used to demonise the working class generally.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Chavs-Demonization-Working-Owen-Jones/dp/1844678644/

I wondered how long it would be until someone mentioned that wimp.

I don't take socialists seriously, I'm afraid.

You wouldn't know a socialist if they smacked you in the face.

I wondered how long it would be until someone mentioned that wimp.

I don't take socialists seriously, I'm afraid.