Edward Timpson: Shoe Box in Middle of the Road

In fact my Monty Python memory was a little awry. It was a shoe box in the middle of the road and a rolled up newspaper in a cess pit where the four self-made yorkshiremen claimed to reside. Above is the sketch in all its inverse snobbery grandeur. And in the midst of this Channel 4 News item you'll find Timspn playing the 'poor orphan' card; and here's the script and here's the Oxbridge Guardianista arguing the toss about toffs.

It is the "we had it tough" line that needs attacking. And the idea that Edward himself is "successful" because his family are filthy rich. He may have a halo, and he may have avoided the worst of the Bullingdon excess at Uppingham and Durham, but he's a bit dim to try this on.