I sincerely want to know when being privileged and privately educated became immoral.

Don’t quite know when it happened. But it seems one morning we woke up to find being privileged and privately educated undesirable and a bad thing.

A negative, weekly the opposition leader and his sidekicks make snide remarks and joke about over the dispatch box and on every given opportunity. And politicos site as a shortcoming and something to be ashamed of.

Where I came from, parents worked their fingers to the bone to educate their children in private schools. State schools pinch teachers from private faculties to improve and raise their own standards. And being privileged was something to admire and aspire for, not to be embarrassed by.

So what is happening to Britain and why is she going backwards?

Some people are born with wealth. They happen to be the few and the minority. However, most individuals worked hard, either directly or indirectly, to make and keep their wealth. If we look around us today, bar a few names, the majority of the UK’s rich are either hard workers themselves or descendants of parents and grandparents who worked relentlessly to make their fortunes.

Hard work and aspiration to succeed are at the heart of all productive, prosperous and happy societies. Privilege is the product of that hard work and it goes hand in hand with success. So why are we sneering at the fruits of dedicated hard work?

And why are we more and more accepting of luck over hard graft?

Many want and dream of success. But don’t want either to study or work for it. However, they are happy to win it on a game or a talent show or even the Lottery. They are happy to dream about something where the odds against them are in the hundreds of millions but not spend a day developing a dream of their own, where its rewards might be smaller yet attainable! We celebrate in awe and admiration our Lottery and X-Factor winners yet pay no attention to our inventors and entrepreneurs. Why is that?

And we do it not because we don’t want or like success but because we want to achieve it the easy way. Yet at the same time can’t help feeling resentful of those who either they or their ancestors worked hard to make their luck.

If we look around us, we will see that modern wealth does not come from land and property bestowed by kings and queens or acquired by wars. Most of today’s wealth comes from enterprising and working hard. And every time the left turns its nose and sneers at it, it sneers at innovation and its fruits. By so doing, they are indirectly killing aspiration in the younger generations.

Mocking wealth and success is not only tasteless and unBritish, it is economically dangerous. And the sooner lefties and their cronies understand that the better it is for our country and our economy.