JRM has undoubtedly manufactured himself into Lord Snooty, but it's not a facade - he really lives it, is my assessment.
You suggest that Labour MP's create a persona - recently the only MP I can recall going on about his humble roots is Rishi Sunak.
"Many get their kids privately educated" - you mention four, "to name but a few" - the ones in this DM article which I assume you have also found. Maybe they couldn't find any more, I couldn't.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7490373/Labour-Party-high-flyers-accused-blind-hypocrisy.html
Perhaps there are a few more. So, what? And rather more Conservatives. At the last intake, the proportions of MPs that had attended fee paying schools themselves was
Con 44%
Lib Dem 38%
Lab 19%
SNP 8%
I don't think it is hypocritical to be Labour and send one's children to a fee paying school. Or even to want to abolish private education and do so. Everyone wants a good education for their children, hopefully Labour MPs want it for everyone. Hopefully, also some Conservatives. And not all fee paying schools are Eton and Harrow.
I don't subscribe to the view that all politicians are the same. But they probably all have to get their hands dirty at some point.
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