Do you have domestic help because your neighbors do?

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Did you know 80% of residents of houses that can afford a private cleaner in the United Kingdom ‘clean up’ for the cleaner? Being house proud is nothing new, of course, but why not spend the money on something less decadent and do you washing up yourself you lazy sods! All these people could donate their money they save employing a cleaner to give to charity or something. What would those desperate Black Africans on those rubber boats make of that in the Mediterranean, black Africans who may well end up in servitude in some of Europe’s richest houses? Even if I was the richest man in the wold I would never pay people to clean up after me! Having a paid cleaner in England is not that common, as it is in places like South America and Southern Africa, and very much a status thing here. People want their neighbours to know they can afford them. In the summer working for my brothers gardening company when we do someone’s garden in a richer area we soon get approached by their neighbours to do their gardens, competitive leaf blowers soon raging down the street. Well-to-do people can’t bear having less than their neighbors in class ridden Britain. It’s the same with house and garage extensions. If you walk down a suburban street you will see house with an extra room on the roof or in the garden are often next door to each other. It’s called ‘keeping up with the Jones’s’. I lived and worked in South Africa for 6 months and I was amazed how many middle - class whites and blacks had help. Even Black Africans needed that status symbol in a country like South Africa to prove they have made it. Rich Nigerians and Arabs are the worse for it in London and enjoy the perverse pleasure of having staff in servitude for the lowest wages possible when they could clearly pay more, all but legal slavery. The British government turns a blind eye because of the oil money those people bring to London in property and partying.