Are you working class and proud of it?

Listening to the Today programme this morning I hear that apparently about 60% of people agree with the statement "I'm working class and proud of it". They had a couple of people on to discuss this, one of whom tried to define what it meant to be working class by suggesting that it was all about your family connections (he claimed Cherie Blair was working class because she lived close to her mum for childcare) in some nebulous fashion.

The whole thing struck me as rather odd. When I think of class, I tend to think of education at least for the lower 2 - nearly everyone who's been to university is at least middle class by the end of it while those people who never did any work then left after their GCSEs are generally working class.

So, what do you think?

[Poll #54709]

Serendipity

Cycling out of the alleyway leading to St Aldates, I was on my way home singing a KTB song which was stuck in my head when who should walk past the head of the alley but KTB herself! I was tempted to rush up and say "I was just singing your song to myself" but I decided that was to fannish and restricted myself to just singing it slightly louder.