Thank you for your post.I agree with your elite entry but I have a problem with the word. Perhaps because the word "elite" makes me cringe as it has been over-used of late for the wrong reasons and, if I am honest with you, I think mostly out to jealousy.According to the Cambridge dictionary, elite is:belonging to the richest, most powerful, best-educated, or best-trained group in a society:For example, "Elite troops were airlifted to the trouble zone."If we talk about Thatcher, Major, Sugar and Betty Boothroyd, they reached the echelons of the House of Lords on their own merit and my congratulations to them.Others, like Johnson, Rees-Mogg for example, form part of the elite because of family wealth, going to the best schools, being in the right place at the right time by accident and not design, but that is where the privilege ends as they are certainly not the best-trained of a group (regardless of the schools and universities they went to - attending them does not mean the person has learnt anything!). In addition to Major and Sugar, who would I include under an elite? The Queen, Stephen Hawking, John and Dan Snow, Brian Cox, Michel Roux, doctors and nurses, Roger Federer, Mark Carney to name a few. I would perhaps include barristers and judges to this list, but exclude lawyers, accountants, bankers and financial advisers.
Ivonne Holliday ● 2671d