As fans of period drama can attest, there was a time when the British elite regarded salaried work of any sort, let alone the drudgery of a Monday to Friday commute, as a badge of social shame. Thus a snobbish dowager in "Downton Abbey", acidly inquiring: "What is a weekend?" Responding on March 21st to the government's annual budget statement, Ed Miliband, the leader of the Labour opposition, tried a similarly class-based put-down.
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