Finding the chase and cutting to it

I love the two Ronnies but the best encounter with them has to be “I know my place” which was written by Marty Feldman/John Law.

I know my place

I first saw it when I was 12, back in 1985, and really wasn’t sure what it was taking about.  The industrial action of the late 70’s really passed me by and the recession of that time also seemed to be wanning.  But I was reminded of the sketch while overhearing a conversation as I walked through a market today.

It also made me think that it doesn’t really apply anymore.  Many articles have abounded the past year about the traditional upper classes not being able to afford to send their off-spring to public school while people on modest incomes seem to think this is the only way to guarantee their off-spring a decent chance in life!

I believe that this is changing.  Long after the grammar schools were abolished and were a guarantee, if you took the advantages, of achieving a better life than your parents, the ability to achieve what you can has been granted by the internet.  Information is there for the taking – if you are interested in the “Social structure of Britain” you can go and find it: perhaps not the latest figures and facts but definitely ones two years old.

Information is there for the taking and that is making a difference. Times are going to be hard for everyone over the next two years but I think the world has the chance of making itself better at the end of this recession and hopefully, very peacefully.