>> 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.
Given the evidence across his lifetime, including TV interviews as a child, I think we can disregard any possibility of an "image".
>> 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.
Typically?. There are a few members, on both sides of the house, brought up in straightened circumstances. Angela Rayner is one example on the Labour side. Kier Starmer's upbringing was skilled working class, his father was a toolmaker.
Can you exemplify someone who has created a stereotypical persona?
>>fight for justice and fairness.
Abd so they should, they would be a disgrace if they did not.
>> Yet many get their kids privately educated - eg: Diane Abbott, Shami Chakrabati, Emily Thornberry,
>> Valerie Vaz, to name but a few.
Different argument. Shami C was never even in the Commons. Dianne Abbott has spoken of her sons difficulties in main stream schooling and how that led her to resort to paying fees. Emily Thornberry's husband is a Judge, Lord Justice Nugee who himself went to Radley College. No doubt their children followed in his footsteps.
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