40 years of aspirational politics has robbed the working class, it claimed would be emancipated from low aspirations of the 'heavy hand of the state'.
We're all middle class now. The property owning/share holding democracy. Let the managers manage and we'll all be better off. Throw off the shackles of state dependency and free yourself to aspiration. If you just pull yourself up by the bootstraps, your horizons have never been more broader.
Working class 25 year olds can try taking their 'aspiration' to a bank as a deposit on a home and see exactly how far that gets them!
40 years of this popularist bullshit and home-ownership is in decline, rents are pauperising the young and final salary pensions are extinct for all but the fatcats.
The ladder's been pulled up by the likes of Thatcher, Tebbit, Murdoch who preached aspiration while pulling up the ladder. Then there were the crypto Tories like Blair, Mary Croeg, Peter Mandelson, Frank Field and Liz Kendall.
Blair spun a tweaked version of Tory line that if we let the bankers get on with it, with a relaxed regulation, then we can all benefit from the tax revenue but Blair added that the tax revenue would be channelled into helping all, especially the weakest. The Third Way failed too, it was socialist state bail outs that kept the cash machines running.
Brand is spot on so many of his observations.