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I spent last
weekend in a caravan at a holiday centre in the North East of England. This was
my second of such adventures this year as I had been previously enticed by an
offer of some collectable vouchers in a daily newspaper offering luxury caravan
breaks at bargain prices. I hadn’t enjoyed the first one in July very much so I
was not particularly looking forward to this one either but the difference
being this break was over a weekend not a week this time around. Due to a
change in circumstances we arrived on the Saturday morning rather than the
designated check-in on Friday evening. Saturday night proved to be quite an
experience for me and is not something I shall ever want repeated, for me it
was as if I had moved to a sink estate overnight. I am not a snob and see
myself as somewhat lower Middle Class in the so-called class pecking order that
still pervades this country where I live. I have always worked, my parents have
always worked and my grandparents all worked their whole lives and we have
never been poor, never missed paying bills or mortgages and I have been brought
up to be respectable, have good manners and be considerate of others. These
attributes were certainly absent from a minority of my fellow caravan park
dwellers on Saturday night and caused me to exhibit feelings of anger, extreme
annoyance and exasperation as time moved into the early hours of Sunday
morning. I have sworn never to darken the doors of one of these holiday destinations
again as in my normal life I spend quite a bit of time avoiding people often
labelled as a ‘chav’.
I know a lot
of the media intelligentsia think that ‘chav’ is a demeaning word for the
Working Class but to me it does not so much sum up a class more a certain type of
individual behaviour that has become more prevalent year after year since the
fall of Thatcher and then the rise and fall of Blair & Brown. I personally
think these people are clueless, stupid and don’t deserve to be included in any
class system breakdown whatsoever. They are thick, feral and a fucking blight
that festers in the concrete council estate undergrowth that has been allowed
to grow like mould in a petri dish with successive governments ignoring the
issues and focusing more on looking upwards in the class chain towards the
major capitalist corporations and financial bully boys rather than actually
trying to bring some decency and a change of philosophy for people at the other
extreme end of society instead of leaving them to rely on benefits and charitable
benevolence with no decent future prospects in sight other than a weekend trip
to a caravan park every now and again……………
Enjoy
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