"Working hard used to get you something. It got you a house, a nice life, holidays. It got you somewhere....."
Hannah Spencer MP
Here I allow my thoughts to meander, try and consider where I fit in with class; acknowledge there are many pretenders; and finally consider whether it should be a legally protected characteristic.
My great-grandfather was known by everyone as Frank Elsden, although his birth name was Frederick, who moved to Spalding as a “man from the Pru” – an insurance agent for the Prudential Assurance Company in 1932, with his wife Ada and his son Cyril Frank Elsden. As such his was a story of social mobility from working class to middle class.
