COVID vs North & South

Its interesting to me that society or rather the portrayal of modern English society is one where the class system of the Oliver Twist era and before no longer exists or has been eroded to almost non-existence. Bollocks. The number of poorer people going to the alleged “elite” universtities is minimal but I agree that the internet has muddied the water, allowed those with talents to broadcast themselves to a wide audience and earn in some cases significant money but they are still a rarity and have they crossed the divide or simply created another class?

But perhaps if you were cynical an example of class and the truly English North vs South divide you only have to look at the latest COVID19 map to get us out of lockdown from December the 2nd.

OK its not totally and clearly delineated on the historic North v South divide i mean who classes Stratford Upon Avon as the Midlands or Warrington as historically upper class? (they’re in Tier 3) but just about everything on initial glances would appear that the old moniker of working class Midlands and North has been left in lockdown only the wording has changed. One suspects again with a rather cynical eye that this proposed Christmas holiday for lockdown was never real but why not man up and just state the science does not allow for Xmas, the virus does not respect borders, time of year etc i guess because that takes balls and its much easier as a politician to pretend you’re doing something when really you are not.

Instead we now have a map which on face value allows the southern half (most of it) to have slightly more openness. Still on the bright side … our political elite are rather an aging bunch and one could hope that a clean sweep of the Houses of Parliament etc would allow for some refreshing younger new ideas without the need for a return of Guy Fawkes. Besides it could be worse, pity the poor Welsh where restaurants, pubs must close at 1800 and cannot sell alcohol at anytime even with food. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯