I can see how it might come across as snobbery, but in general I aim at being a bit more playful with my own ambiguous class position. I can *pass* in both middle- and working class speech, belonging to and a fraud within both. If it comes across as being simply a pitch to be middle class, then I’ve misjudged it somewhere.

Thank you nonetheless – it’s always interesting to read critical takes on one’s work – even if it suggests that there’s a bit of a large gap sometimes between effect and intention.

“Good idea but I’d be very reluctant to waste a bottle of Petit Verdot on him. He looked like he’s [sic] much rather have a nice tin of Carling.”

That’s my opinion from the void anyway, do with it what you will!

But it’s all irrelevant. She’s not interested and that’s the end of the matter. Perhaps all relationships are unequal in feeling, inherently. I don’t know.