Peter Kroger - I take the point about wealthy people. But when I joined the CPGB we were told to be careful about the term middle class, and for many years "middle strata" was the preferred label. Given the decline in traditional industries in the UK, the proletarianisation of what once were privileged "middle class" jobs, the rise of the gig economy, and so on, we need to keep an anchor in Marxist understanding of an individual's class position. If you sell your labour for hire you are working class, whether you sit in front of a PC screen all day or work on the production line at the Nissan factory. This is not to deny that it is worrying that, for example, what remains of the industrial working class in the UK is has fewer and fewer representatives in parliament, on local councils, and in the leadership of political parties. (Take a bow, Sir Keir . . .)