Gordon Brown's definition of 'middle class'

Gordon Brown yesterday, quoted by SubRosa:

'And I believe that a fair society is one where everyone who works hard and plays by the rules has a chance to fulfill their dreams, whether that’s owning a bigger house, taking a holiday abroad, buying a new car or starting a small business.'

I commented on SubRosa's blog as follows:

That little list precisely circumscribes Brown's purblind definition of 'the middle classes'. No wonder he despises what he thinks they are like. If such people existed and if this was the sum of their world view they would indeed be the soulless, selfish, worthless people he imagines they are. Brown really has no idea - but why would he? He has lived his whole life in a tiny bubble of Marxist theory whose small windows on the world around him are the writings of Lenin and his biographer Maxton. Brown and his henchmen know nothing of the longings and dreams of ordinary people for financial security and independence of their own making in a stable and familiar society, the safeguarding of their hard-won liberties, the teaching to their children of the glories of their culture and their proper pride in all these things. Having cut his teeth on words like ‘struggle’ and ‘class war’, Brown can think and speak only in terms of 'fighting'. He has no other language with which to appeal to anyone. This is typically Marxist and also typically Fabian (‘Causes to fight for in 2010’). Brown and his Labour Party are now fighting most of the British people. Having destabilised the nation socially and wrecked it economically, Brown has made them weary of him and his bloody fighting.