Bob Piper has been a Labour Councillor for the Abbey
Ward in Sandwell, West Midlands, for nine years. He is a lifelong supporter of Aston Villa Football Club and a follower of Yorkshire County Cricket Club.
The views expressed here are mine in a personal capacity, not those of the Labour Party, Sandwell MBC, Aston Villa or Yorkshire County Cricket Club. Get it! Mine... just mine!
"When I encounter expensive shirts and upper-class accents I have always presumed vacuity until offered firm evidence to the contrary; though eminently rebuttable, it's a helpful rule of thumb. Slowly getting to know middling-to-lower-class people often involves the gradual discovery of how capable they are. Getting to know public-school-educated people often involves the discovery (it can take years) of how dimwitted they are."
Parris makes a good point. Giving an idiot an expensive education doesn't prevent them being an idiot.
