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http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/03/no-longer-tutor-progeny-rich-aspirational


As someone in the comments pointed out, this is like a Daily Mash pastiche of a Guardian article. Only it's real. Still, top marks for this person only taking 10 years to work out that they really, really hate rich people so much they can no longer bear to accept their money.


Most telling line: "Yet in a society plagued by the disease of aspiration...". As Catherine Tate put it, how *very* dare they.


Funniest line: "an already unequal form of education plunges into something that would make the feudal system look like the dictatorship of the proletariat." Monty Python couldn't have put it better.


Anyway, a tour-de-force of left-wing stupidity.

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The comments section (surpringly nailed it). The person who said that the aspiration as diseease comment was a reflection of the "no your place" mentality in Britain was spot on. I've seen it first hand and its one of the only things I dislike about this (my adopted) country.

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