Class system in Great Britain

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I came across a topic sentence we were once given and thought it would be A a good beginning for a short summery of the class system in Great Britain and B a good practice for PC3.

Britain has long been a country of haves and have nots. One of the haves is undoubtedly the class system. It has been lasting for decades and in the terms of office of certain politicians like Margaret Thatcher it has even worsen. Until today British society is divided into classes. According to a new survey there are seven classes to distinguish: the elite, the established middle class, the technical middle class, the new affluent workers, the emergent service workers, the traditional working class and the Precariat. The differences between these are the distribution of income and wealth as well as education and occupation. While the upper classes can afford the expensive and good private schools, the lower classes have to struggle with the insufficient public schools. This leads to the unemployment or low positions of the lower classes and furthermore to the high positions for people of the upper classes. As the social mobility in Great Britain is the worst among Europe, it is almost not possible to leave one class and enter another. To summarize there has been a big wealth gap in Great Britain for decades.