Politicians & "Hard working families"

The use of this phrase by politicians really p..... me off. It is so patronising used by the right wing & implies just working class wage earners when used by the left. Apparently it started to be used in the 1990's & since then it has been consistently overused. (I think Goebbels also used the phrase in the 1930's. Maybe the politicians should think on that snippet of information!)

It's completely meaningless. "Families" don't work hard. Individuals may well do. It's trying to imply the Protestant work ethic in a ridiculous, generalist way. Instead of making us non politicians feel included, it singles us out & implies there are a lot of non hard working families. Because it has now been so overused by the likes of Cameron, Osborne, Clegg & Milliband, all of whom may be hard working, but certainly have little in common with the majority of working people, it has become completely debased.

No one works all the time. Pensioners, single parents, the sick & elderly, & the unemployed can't work all the time, often through no fault of their own. My guess is that most of us know people in one or more of these categories. Statistically the idle spongers are a very small proportion of society. Most people work hard to provide for their families & don't need any politician to tell them just how difficult that is.

Somehow the politicians are trying to make us into a club of one sort or another. Either the right wing  or left wing version. They try to engender a feeling of inclusiveness. It doesn't work. Nowadays most of them aren't like us & never will be. What they need to grasp & quickly is that we can see through the rhetoric.

We aren't daft!