I read that the fiction called Shameless is to return to our television screens for another series. It seems that the middle classes can't get enough of this distorted representation of the post-Thatcher proletariat. All prejudices confirmed by the jumped-up council estate escapee, Abbot (I forget his first name). If you want to join the middle class you must be prepared to denigrate your own people, your own background; ask Tony Parsons.
You know, we council estate dwellers, 'chavs' to the home-owning, expense account ratpack, cannot string a sentence together without throwing in a couple of "fucks". Plenty of strong language, some violence, and lots of petty crime, and there's your authentic working class, served up for the titillation of the petty (oh so petty!) bourgeoisie.

A propos Shameless, I note that Milord Prescott is pimping for some insurance company. He will no doubt be well recompensed for exposing himself to further ridicule and to accusations of unbridled greed.
A neighbour informs me that, during last month's bad weather, when some estates were left without public transport, and all of us were without waste disposal services, Lord Prescott had his bins emptied regularly, and had council employees on standby to clear snow from his driveway. Can it be true? Would our Conservative, sorry Lib-Dem, council pander to the overfed boor? Who can say?