They’ve been derided as losers, hoodies and chavs. In Underdogs, the journalist Joel Budd travels across Britain to find out what the working classes really think
The biggest lie told about members of Britain’s middle class — and I speak here with all the dubious authority derived from belonging to that doomed tribe — is that we do not think or talk or agonise about what is now called “the white working class”.
Overlooked? Ignored? Rubbish. The middle classes have both feared the revolutionary potential, envied the apparent lawlessness and yearned for a dusting of the hard-won authenticity of this country’s white working class for almost as long as there has been a printing press.
