> This describes pretty much any moderately wealthy country in which hunger still exists.
This describes pretty much the whole world. I'm convinced at this point that the dystopia we are all headed for is not 1984 or Brave New World or Snow Crash but something more like Elysium where a tiny minority have everything and get to do whatever they want, physically isolated/insulated from the rest who have nothing and live as subjects.
Previous comment's "contempt for the working classes, but has recently been extended to doctors and lawyers" referred to public sector pay rather than party composition.
(There is a huge backlog in the courts system and defence barristers are very under-funded, making the problem worse)
Then it unhelpfully conflates classism with mismanagement of the economy and concomitant fiscal constraints on legal aid and the NHS.
Who exactly has captured The Guardian, The Times, the Daily Mail, the Financial Times, the London Review of Books, and the BBC all at the same time?
> a non-representative electoral system
that can symmetrically benefit either side.
> feudal traditions of greed and contempt for the lower classes…extended to doctors and lawyers
You can just look these things up: https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-.... Doctors and lawyers are still overrepresented. The class background of the new sort of Tory (Williamson, Dorries, Jenkyns) is hardly more aristocratic than the members of the professions that preceded them, even if some receive honours.
> The UK has literally become one of those third-world countries where oligarchs buy yachts and fast cars while the population starves.
This describes pretty much any moderately wealthy country in which hunger still exists. The situation might well be worse in the UK but to show that would require use of such difficult techniques as counting and research, rather than hackneyed repetition of old stereotypes.