Is the British society today still a class-ridden society?

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Georges Orwell described the British society as "the most class-ridden society under the sun". Nevertheless, since Margaret Thatcher, political have wanted to create a classless society. Recently, David Cameron said: "I don't believe [the British society] is a class-ridden society. I think that's a load of rubbish". Thus, class seems to be a basic part of the British way of life because all political take care it into consideration.

We can consider three more important classes: the Upper, the Middle and the Lower (or working) classes. It is often easy to know from which class a person belongs to, just by hearing his accent, viewing his mannerisms or seeing his clothes. Despite a real will of the political to erase the notion of class, huge differences between people don't really seem to disappear

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[...] Class limits are not fixed, even though 80 percent of people think there are too many barriers between classes according to a recent survey. In fact, there is as much social mobility in the United Kingdom as in other countries. A research shown that more than 25 percent of the managers and professionals surveyed had fathers who were in the working class. A study in 1996, tracing the lives of children born in 1958, noticed that more than half of the people examined had move to an upper class than their original class. [...]

[...] The more money your parents have, the luckier you are to go in a famous college and the easier you get a job providing you a high income. Despite some scholarship, colleges don't try a lot to make efforts to integrate children who beyond to the lower class. Inequalities are huge in the United Kingdom between the very rich and the working class. But is an unequal society necessarily a class-ridden society? II-But not set in the stone. The Upper class was only composed by aristocrats. [...]

[...] Is the British society today still a class-ridden society? Georges Orwell described the British society as most class-ridden society under the sun”. Nevertheless, since Margaret Thatcher, political have wanted to create a classless society. Recently, David Cameron said: don't believe [the British society] is a class-ridden society. I think that's a load of rubbish”. Thus, class seems to be a basic part of the British way of life because all political take care it into consideration. We can consider three more important classes: the Upper, the Middle and the Lower (or working) classes. [...]