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With me it's not even about being "chippy," or the politics of "envy" etc.

I'm 62 now, racing as a career has long since been left behind by me, and when I was a young man I made my life choices - I used to work with and drink in the same Fleet Street pubs as many racing media modern household names.

I chose my own path, they chose theirs, and some of them were (and no doubt still are) good blokes and good luck to them - I wouldn't want to go racing literally every day and stand behind some TV podium like a muppet week in, week out, or have some other job in the game.

But a lack of equal opportunity - and it's everywhere, not just in racing - damages the economy and society as a whole.

Nothing wrong with there being high earners in the top jobs, but they need to be there because of intelligence and hard work and not because of what families they were born into, or what school they went to.

<blockquote data-quote="Ian_Davies" data-source="post: 2696267" data-attributes="member: 66646">With me it&#039;s not even about being &quot;chippy,&quot; or the politics of &quot;envy&quot; etc.I&#039;m 62 now, racing as a career has long since been left behind by me, and when I was a young man I made my life choices - I used to work with and drink in the same Fleet Street pubs as many racing media modern household names.I chose my own path, they chose theirs, and some of them were (and no doubt still are) good blokes and good luck to them - I wouldn&#039;t want to go racing literally every day and stand behind some TV podium like a muppet week in, week out, or have some other job in the game.But a lack of equal opportunity - and it&#039;s everywhere, not just in racing - damages the economy and society as a whole.Nothing wrong with there being high earners in the top jobs, but they need to be there because of intelligence and hard work and not because of what families they were born into, or what school they went to.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ian_Davies, post: 2696267, member: 66646"] With me it's not even about being "chippy," or the politics of "envy" etc. I'm 62 now, racing as a career has long since been left behind by me, and when I was a young man I made my life choices - I used to work with and drink in the same Fleet Street pubs as many racing media modern household names. I chose my own path, they chose theirs, and some of them were (and no doubt still are) good blokes and good luck to them - I wouldn't want to go racing literally every day and stand behind some TV podium like a muppet week in, week out, or have some other job in the game. But a lack of equal opportunity - and it's everywhere, not just in racing - damages the economy and society as a whole. Nothing wrong with there being high earners in the top jobs, but they need to be there because of intelligence and hard work and not because of what families they were born into, or what school they went to. [/QUOTE]

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