Not belonging to that lot over there.

The term "working class", "middle class", "upper class", aristocracy, are great reminders that the term "we are all in this together" seems pitifully inappropriate. 

The term "divide and rule" is a qualified tactic used to destabilise the population by differentiating between sections of society,  pointing out the differential, dividing us modulating our opinions towards each other so that you don't  recognise each other as being members of the same society.
 Once again today being encouraged, by an ever narrowing political conglomerate of the powerful news gathering groups, disseminating opinion to us for us to believe what we believe, because we are fed what they want us to believe.
The crux of the matter is how people, now a days see each other.
For instance. One view is "A strike is crisis which must be fought with all the tools in the toolbox".
Another view is that the Dickensian employment conditions in some of the largest most well known companies in the country are a matter of 'market conditions'.
The stress and under manning of our Prison System (budget cuts of a third) leading to prisoner rebellion, is a political question because the Unions are not allowed to strike and have to wait, or leave whilst the matter is sorted out.

What is the bottom line, what are the emotions which govern our leaders, what class of people do they really represent. With all their sangfroid who do they most identify with, and will the "working class" ever get much more than a mention in dispatches. Has it become imperative that we need representation other than from our elected Parliament.

The vilification of unionism by Mrs Thatcher was retaliation for the Socialist concept of a "fair day's pay for a fair day's work". A view well advanced in Germany before the 1st World War

The British political elite were reticent. Using all kinds of parliamentary jiggery pokery they lulled the voter into believing that their future was in good hands whilst, tied up in the small print, lay the truth. Their hearts were never in it and so it is today.  A holding clause here, a diversion there whilst the Globalised machinery marches on, diminishing the few hard won provisions on labour protection for the benefits of "flexibility". 

The Germans are in accord with their society. The leadership feel a part of that society and seem to work in conjunction with the German society as a whole, whilst we in Britain seem keen to be seen as "not belonging to that lot over there"!!!