He was also born into a privilaged middle class family.

@Fernapple His family were irish immigrants and lived in a two bedroom flat in the east end of London, his father was a builder mate and did contract work on construction sites and oil rigs.
My point being he was working class by birth but from the age of 19 has been a well paid, rich personality and (sort of) musician who made a living by being fucking outrageous and a professional rebel.
To still be calling himself working call at 64 is laughable, the only working class job he ever had was as a minicab driver for 5 minutes when he was 17.

@LenHazell53 Perhaps I was misinformed, thank you.

@Fernapple Like the doyen of the folk world Billy Bragg.

@FrayedBear Billy Bragg used to have a support band called Shrug, who's lead singer worked for me for five years, they were intentionally terrible and when this was pointed out to them they would ...Shrug.

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@LenHazell53 reading the WordPress article did not have me shrugging - more sighing about the spoken English of purported university alumni. I could hear the accent!

@LenHazell53 I have never appreciated Bragg.