and well-meaning upper-middles are the most squeamish of all. They will go to great lengths to avoid calling anyone or anything ‘working class’ – resorting to polite euphemisms such as ‘low-income groups’, ‘less privileged’, ‘ordinary people’, ‘less educated’, ‘the man in the street’, ‘tabloid readers’, ‘blue collar’, ‘state school’, ‘council estate’ and ‘popular’.
