"Plenty of people have done well by setting out to improve. "

I see.

But you know that "chavs" don't do this.


Richard, your comments are elitist, ignorant and patronizing.


I've taught at a 'Chav' School.


Everyone knew it was a "chav" school.


Cos thats where "chav" kids were dumped and forgotten.


I suspect that your inability to communicate with those whom you perceive to be "chavs" has a lot more to do with your preconceptions and your egotism than with their alleged disinterest in your gracious intellectual benificence.


Fortunately for me, I didn't have those problems. I'm realistic ... I'm an outsider ... but there isn't a human being a live that I haven't managed to get through to with my smile and my eyes.