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Originally Posted by Nick Beale
Last gasp? That's not my impression of life in "modern" Britain!
Perhaps they want to believe the Brits live a) in stately homes or
b) picturesque villages
in some unspecified period where you can tell at a glance a persons status/worth to the community.
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Rather than in a country where practically all of the senior politicians went to fee-paying schools that 93% of children don't go to, where we still confer hereditary titles, where the head of state is always drawn from one family and where bishops sit in Parliament making laws. Mediaeval, us?