That’s pretty much it, but now imagine that caste system is only tacitly accepted to be true by everyone inside it. It theoretically doesn’t exist, because the U.K. has embraced capitalism and the American dream – where anyone can make it. The whole thing is masked by politeness, policed by manners and behaviour codes and social mobility doesn’t happen in any meaningful way. That’s before you throw in any complexity like…. ‘Foreigners are taking your jobs away’ – the lie consistently fed to British people since the collapse of the empire.