How much of JRM "image" is a creation meeting stereotypical expectations - wealthy toff, fancy expensive education, terribly superior, one of the privileged few etc. And how much is for real.
Labour MPs typically create a different stereotypical persona fitting their political beliefs - bought up in real poverty on a sink council estate, empathetic to anything or anyone downtrodden, man or woman of the people, fight for justice and fairness.
Yet many get their kids privately educated - eg: Diane Abbott, Shami Chakrabati, Emily Thornberry, Valerie Vaz, to name but a few.
Individual politicians I have met invariably seem decent, thoughtful and intelligent irrespective of party allegiance. As a breed or in a group they are a contemptible disgrace.
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