The patronising phrase "ordinary working families" leaves me wondering what other kinds of families politicians have in mind?
I know some extraordinary working families and I know some ordinary non-working families who all show remarkable resilience and courage in holding their lives together.
I know lots of ordinary working single people and some extraordinary non working single people who show the same resilience, dignity and desire to be part of the community of life around us.
"Ordinary working families". Politicians talk down to all of us using terminology like that. Those words categorise narrowly, exclude intentionally, and aim to divide our communities into those who deserve and those who don't, those who are approved and those who are not, those who are "us" and those who are not.
I refuse to play this cynical game of false empathy, manufactured concern, and blatant appeal to self interest in trying to win the uncritical support of "ordinary working families."
And if and when someone canvasses at my door I will be asking about that ubiquitous abstraction.
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