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As a fully paid-up member of the impotent lower middle class, and a fervent opponent of pretty much everything the daily mail stands for, I resent that implication!

Maybe the core audience of the daily mail IS lower middle class, but only the segment of the lower middle class that is intolerant and reactionary.

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Yeah, I shouldn't have really worded it like that. It's difficult making characterisations and I went a bit too far. I do believe, however, that there's a segment of the middle classes who have a lot of dissatisfaction with their general lot, and the Mail is a way for them to vicariously lash out at "the system", johnny foreigner, the rich, the paedophiles, and all of those other easy targets.

I'm going to leave what I wrote as is and reap what I sow, but regret putting it in such a nasty tone now. Sorry!

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