Here's the TUC online version of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists - you can read in parallel the printed text and Tressell's handwritten manuscript.

"John Major's Pooterish paeon to 'Englishness' which evoked old ladies cycling across the village green to Evensong." Which was actually lifted straight from George Orwell. John Major had his Pooterish aspect, but that's not the best way to characterise George Orwell.

I think it's helpful to keep in mind the distinction between Economic Class and Social Class - they overlap but they don't coincide. The latter is the one that fascinates people in England, and very often people trying to suggest that Economic class doesn't matter or even that it doesn't exist, make use of this. They point out ways in which some Social Class markers have changed and in some cases been eroded.

The implication is that because people might perhaps wear similar jeans or listen to the same music, or echo each others vowel sounds, that means that we've achieved an egalitarian society. Which isn't really that different from suggesting that because the squire and the poacher both liked eating the same game they were on equal terms.