Quote Originally Posted by SWv2 View Post
I have never really understood the intangible concept of class in the UK.

You for example presumably need to work, in order to be able to live your life, so surely you are working class?

As is the Dutch Irish mongrel chap in the motor trade who likes to present himself as being in some way superior to the ordinary man in the street.
Having to work has nothing to do with being working class, sw. Do you find me with my hands down a u-bend, scaffolding, plastering or shovelling sh*t? No. Why not? Because those are occupations for the working classes.

I am middle class. I sit in an office tapping out deathless prose on a keyboard or having meetings. These are things middle class people do.