Rioters do not represent the working class, says LBC's Lewis Goodall

Lewis Goodall criticises politicians who hijack ‘legitimate’ working class concerns and claim to speak for the entire country.

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[garygreen]

The working class were the people who cleared up all the mess after the riots

[ffsytube]

I'm working class and have managed to get through the day without smashing up my town

[zedtrek]

I'm working class, definitely not represented by those idiots

[emanuel]

Any true working class man or woman whos actually stepped outside their home and spoken to real people instead of having the likes of the Daily Fail and Daily Depress do the thinking for them, they'd be heavily against what is going on.

[UnknownCaller]

These people are a total embarrassment to our reputation and image on the international level too

[dh]

Giving them too much air time. You're making them feel important. Which they are not.

[jak]

I’m working class and the only thing I’ve ever had to smash up is that large cardboard box to get it to fit in the recycling box. They’re right wing thugs nothing more.

[discontentedcitizan]

Not in my name as a working class person

[jackbaynes]

As an Eastender, I can confirm that some working class areas like mine have become multicultural and ethnically diverse - so there are White British cockney locals who would ALSO abhor this far-right extremism for that reason. I don't see this as a lower-class issue at all - no, if anything, the working class are more likely to be leftist/socialist as they are the working people. But these acts of thuggery are better spoken of regarding the political compass not economic class system.

[ThomasWoodward-ki]

I'm proud English working class and blame myself for my failings.
If you're working class you punch up at those really responsible for the state of this country, not down at those they want you to blame.

[MichaelJohnson-kqqg]

They do represent PART of the working class - it's about ten percent. They've always existed. They don't represent the majority, but their poison is insidious and they are disproportionately loud.

[randomdaveUK]

Most of them are an embarrassment, not workers

[shahanarabegum]

Burning Police station, looting shops, sounds drugged up class

[Sam-lk]

I didn't see these people rioting over Saville, Harris or Letby

[sergiuprofiroiu]

To qualify as working class, you should go to work. These thugs don't work, rely solely on benefits.

[Manu-Official]

When you claim to be working class, when you destroy someone else's car or shop...

[haaaaaay]

Exactly, tarring ordinary working class people with the same brush as these thugs is insulting. I’m working class and don’t agree with this violence at all, it’s disgraceful

[Ajaxtothehead]

Its the same Brits you see abroad now theyre behaving the same way at home.

[cupguin]

It's generous to pretend they aren't organized. These aren't organic protests. Getting this many people to show up in specific places all at the same time takes a lot of coordination.

[brummie.bill-.]

To use the horrific attack on children as an excuse for extreme street violence is a disgrace. These people are just thugs who enjoy violence for the sake of violence, as a working class British person, these thugs have absolutely nothing to do with working class people .