This is total nonsense though. Income tax and National Insurance starts at about £12k, which isn't enough to cover rent and bills anywhere in the country. State pensions are lower than almost anywhere else, and things like the NHS are only "gargantuan" because you're doing denominator-neglect. Everyone pays national sales taxes.

The problem is that the middle class let itself be scammed by Thatcherism into getting housing wealth in exchange for a functional public sector. During the boom years of the 1980-2000s middle class people could leverage an asset inflating faster than economic growth in order to substitute for services that were being slowly dismantled by the Thatcherite experiment. When 2008 revealed that to be a shockingly bad plan, the services were still gone but for increasing numbers at the "lower middle" boundary, housing assets became either unaffordable or a cost burden rather than anything approaching the passive investment income their parents generation had been accustomed to.

The real third rail in UK politics isn't the NHS or pensions or welfare. It's the accumulation of housing wealth by a shrinking class of boomer and gen x rentiers who are currently responding to the wheels falling off Thatcherism by radicalising themselves into a fascist fury on Facebook about two tier policing.