I lived on an estate of a very big and successful farm until recently, and so the farm of course was run by the landed gentry who all went hunting and to point-to-point and all the rest of it.
I lived next door to the groom who was, who despised them because they did all this and he had just get the horses ready, um, but at the same time, he was terribly fond of them and they of him and there was all this sort of paternalistic attitude to the country workers that still goes on.
I was staggered, and nobody knew where to put me because I was living in a tied cottage that was tied to the farm.
Um, but because I didn't work with any of them, they were all uneasy with me.
Most peculiar. But I think you raise a very good point there Barrie because you're in fact talking about yourself not fitting into either of these two extremes and I'd like to ask Harry again how many classes he can see very clearly defined. In England?
In England, yes. Well, I guess three off the top of my head. I mean not counting immigrants and foreigners.
Three? Yes. I mean there's the middle class is the most snobbish of all, it seems to me.
You know, they're the most aware of the whole system really because they're upwardly mobile usually you know they hope to be, and they're the ones, I mean the upper class are what I found extraordinary, they seem to be totally uninhibited for the most part.
I think it's extraordinary. I mean I'm not passing any moral judgements on them but it still exists.
Because they've got the confidence and the money. Well no, I don't think money's much to do with it actually. How
How can you change it? I mean how would you change it? I'm not saying it should be changing. No, no, no, no. I don't, I mean people do say that it should be changed.
Politicians say that we should have total equality which I don't believe you can ever have in anything.
Well, there should be equality of opportunity. I mean at least it's nice ideal to have, isn't it?