In The Know seems to think that, because Alan Johnson worked as a Tesco shelf filler and a postman, that he is not fit to hold a cabinet position.

He even took the piss out of the fact that, with a university education and successful career under my belt, I am now living on benefits due to ill health. He is an idiot.

Please let me talk about my father. He was born in the 30s in the slums of Manchester (terraced housing, oustide loos etc) and his parents could not afford to send him to university. He left school at 18 and made it to London on his own, living in hostels and taking any job he could get. He ended up in the civil service and by the time he retired he was a senior civil servant.

By the time he retired he had worked closely with Ken Clarke, Shirley Williams and other poiticians, and was offered a CBE.

So because someone has humble beginnings and little education, that does not mean they cannot make great things out of my life.

I am extremely proud of my father.

proud of your dad and so you should be.

I like the saying of a famous and revered late poitician here in Australian where once the Labor Party pretty well resembled the British Labour Party and likwise it's current version morphed itself into a resemblence of Nu Labour.

"When I joined the Labor Party it contained the cream of the working class..when I left it was full of the dregs of the middle class"