In his book "National Joke: Popular Comedy and English Cultural Identity" Andy Medhurst writes about the TV sitcom of "working class" life in the north of England, "The Royle Family"

"……If it does nothing else "The Royle Family" explodes the myth that England is a classless society. The ludicrousness of that view is perhaps most keenly obvious to those of us who have moved between classes and thereby know and feel, from first hand experience, what it is like to inhabit differently stratified social spaces……….."

As someone for who education enabled achieving a "professional" occupation at the expense of abandoning some of the "values" I was raised with I find myself agreeing with this statement.

Alas, dedication to a career caring for others meant I never achieved "high-flyer" status! :)