General Election 2010

There are any number of people I would say are solidly middle class who cannot afford to buy anywhere - most recent graduates, for example. The same has to be true of what's left of the old working class, and there are a few aristocrats who got taxed out of their homes and now rent or lease bits of them off the National Trust.

I think you've really "got" Mashton's point here, and it's nice that you've elaborated on it. I'd go even further - it's not just graduates, even solidly middle class six year olds are also often priced out of the housing market, given the crazy disparity between current levels of pocket money and mortgage deposits.

And those aristocrats... it must be horrible to live a hand-to-mouth existence, renting space in a crumbling stately home from Britain's ultimate slum landlord, the so-called National Trust. :(