Middle-classes wrongly punished by ‘social engineering’ policies, says think-tank
1st June 2010
The author, Peter Saunders, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Sussex, concludes that governments are therefore wrong to put so much effort into opening up universities to working-class teenagers and increasing taxes for middle-income earners in order to provide more benefits for the poor.
He writes: “The ideal of promoting social mobility by increasing meritocracy has in the last few years been used to justify some old-style socialist politics which in reality have little or nothing to do with increasing individual opportunities or rewarding effort and ability.