On the economic scale Marske is just above the mean value. This means we represent the just above average wealth and income for the United Kingdom.
However, our wages have stagnated, and in real terms have decreased since 2010. During this time public services have been stripped by profiteering politicians and their elite multimillion pound friends - despite taxbills increasing.
Previously I've covered that people in areas like Marske are relying on their houses as pension pots, and that the decrease in deposits and houses being handed down to our children and grandchildren means they are struggling to get on the housing market. House prices meanwhile have increased far beyond wage increases. All this contributes to less spending power.
If places like Marske have reduced spending power, there is less money in the local economy so businesses close and people who work in local businesses further down the income scale end up relying on food banks or live in a "heat or eat" situation.
So where is the money going?
It goes to those who fund the political class, who own the media and their narrative: the very top of the 1%. Those with a wealth of £3.6M and above are becoming increasingly rich (the 1%), while the very rich (£50M and above), and superrich (£200M and above) are seeing their wealth exponentially grow.
Further proof of the collapse of the middle and centre and the diverting of funds to the superrich can be seen in the share prices of luxury goods companies. The huge increase in share price of Louis Vuitton, for example. It is not an economic crisis for all of us.
There is clear evidence that putting pressure on middle class wages and spending power is destroying the UK economy. It is us and not the superrich who make the British economy work.
The people who live in places like Marske drive the UK economy and it is in tatters as teachers, nurses and doctors are having to strike to bring their wages back to 2008 levels, and local people in the private and charity sector have similar wage stagnation issues - because the rich have removed what was their future wage out of the system to buy luxury items - or residental property, forcing up house prices and putting the NHS and schools into crisis.
Who represents and defends the people in the middle?
The majority of people live in 3/4 bed houses on estates like in Marske and nobody represents us.
Teachers are on strike again today - a once assumed middle-class university educated profession.
People working in the charity, local private sector and public sector have all seen their wages and living standards stagnate or decline.
We, the people of the middle, need to elect our own to stand up for us. On Thursday, if successful, I'll be representing the majority, those in the middle, and to reverse our economic decline and grow our numbers from below - to take care of our own interests against those who use political power to serve themselves or the superrich and powerful against our interests.