When I asked Carl Leishman, the twenty-eight-year-old call centre worker from County Durham, if he felt that working-class people were represented in society, he laughed at the absurdity of the question. ‘No. Not at all!’ Did he feel that they were ridiculed? Well, yeah, because there’s nobody who will really stand up to it, because—and this is going to sound very clichéd—but working-class people don’t generally have a voice. Do you know what I mean? You can take the mickey out of a working-class person as much as you want, because you know they’re not going to get in the papers particularly,
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