Jim Carroll wrote: "straight out of Margaret Thatcher's dictionary of thoughts for the day, or even Norman Tebbitt's instruction for cyclists."

At least Maggie and Norm, for all their faults, had a tentative grip on reality and didn't scuttle off to "the colonies" - abandoning their own culture - for the romance of living comfortably but vicariously through someone else's. "I'm not opressed myself, m'lud, but I know someone who is." The word ersatz could have been coined for this bourgois affectation.