Right-on thinking's a spiteful new form of class division

BRITAIN'S old class system is dead and its replacement is altogether more troubling. Instead of being defined by who your parents are, you are now defined by what you think.

- Sam Lister

So gone are the upper, middle and working classes. In their place are the progressive, aggrieved and bigoted classes.

How do you know which one you are in? Simple. What did you think about the grooming gangs scandal? Do you have concerns about the small boats crisis? Can men and women change sex?

Traditional class distinctions became so blurred that the elite had to find a new way to keep ordinary people in their place.

Instead of signalling your status through how you speak, the job you do or the club tie you wear, you now show you are part of the gang by thinking the right things.

What are they? Generally the opposite of what the majority thinks. How do you win debates when your arguments do not stack up? Easy. Shut people up.

So if you spoke out about men of Pakistani heritage carrying out horrific sexual abuse on young white girls, you were dismissed as a racist. Even if (especially if) you were a former Labour MP from the party's old heartlands, rather than its metropolitan seats.

ANN Cryer, who represented Keighley for the party, was denounced as racist and shouted down in meetings.