"It is the sneering contempt in which white working class people who have socially conservative views and attitudes are treated by the great liberal commentariat. Their preferences in culture, sport, clothes, places to go on holday, celebrities, and a hundred other things are regarded with such unbridled contempt as to have practically begged for a reaction.
How often over the past say 30 years have you seen a TV interview with a group of 'inarticulate' local people who are not thrilled at the idea that their neighbourhood is now peopled by those from a distant land whose language they do not understand and a smug, self righteous, smooth faced reporter showing us all how nasty these pathetic little people are?
I have and worked in countries all over the world and there is practically none other where the liberal bougeoisie has a greater sense of alienation from their fellow citizens who have to wear blue overalls at their workplace."
Guardian comment by Chesire Salt