‘It is rare for the media’s eye to fall on working-class people at all; when it does, it is almost always on outlandish individuals such as Karen Matthews, or Alfie Patten.’ pg 23-24
‘The media had helped to create the image of working-class areas degenerating into wholly unemployed communities full of feckless, work-shy, amoral, dirty, sexually debauched and even animal-like individuals.’ pg 24
‘Governments have effectively socially engineered these working-class communities to have the problems they have.’ pg 34
”The decline of the British manufacturing and industrial base has decimated communities up and down the country,’ says Labour MP Katy Clark.’ pg 36