There are plenty of very large drunks with which to have a fight in the Bigg Market however.
No, just that it didn’t seem like he sat down in response to being hit. On further review, the car was creeping up and nudging his legs, so technically it was in response to a “hit”. There does seem to be a moment of “fuck you, I’ll sit on your car, then” before the real acceleration started. But no, of course if there’s a single person wrong here it’s the driver.
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You obviously were lucky enough to miss Tony Blair, who was an upper class Australo-Scot who as a lawyer spoke RP but as a politician spoke Essex (“estuary English” to give it its polite Latin name.)
A myth, if I may say so.
Oh come now, I worked for a US company for years and worked in the US on and off before that, and there are more social classes than that in the average manufacturing plant in my experience.
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I dunno, my social class includes college professors, small businessmen, immigrants, clerics, welders, furniture salesmen, a 7-11 clerk, and a guy with degrees in Anthropology, Sociology and Archeology who works as a chem lab technician.
We do have regional differences that probably look like social classes to Britons, but we only have about the same number as you do, and we are much larger geographically.
Thank you, I confess I find this oddly reassuring. 
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In fairness, maybe Lavina Woodward was simply getting in some practice before med school.
/s
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I’d say what you encountered in the plant was probably cliques, not classes.
Pedigree is not as important as money and prestige here, from what I’ve seen.
From my midwest US perspective:
There’s the 1%, and we don’t even know what they do or where they live.
There’s the rich, or upper class. Those terms are interchangable to us plebes, although I am reliably informed that they are not to those involved. Old money vs new money stuff. They live in the best enclaves in the best suburbs.
Then there’s the middle class. My mother was clear to differentiate between upper-middle class (white collar) and lower middle class (skilled blue collar) back in her day, but I lump them all together based on income.
Then there’s the poor: working-class poor, and the underground economy poor.
So, 5 in my viewpoint. YMMV.
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Wonderful! A pillock and a twit in the same thread. I must admit I like ‘berk’, especially since learning of it’s etymology.
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And here we are for pillock. I never knew that. You pillock! (aimed at no-one in particular, but said out loud, for the pure joy of it).
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“Motorway”.
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