Prolier Than Thou

I suspect that some of those who comment here are really playing Prolier Than Thou, trying, in their impeccably middle-class way, to insinuate that I am not fit to represent the North East or any part of it, because neither of my long-dead grandfathers was a miner, whereas both of their long-dead grandfathers were miners. Well, one of mine was a printer, and the other had various jobs in his time, appearing on my late father’s birth certificate as a “Potato Merchant”. And unlike several of my interlocutors, I’ll wager, I am a first generation university graduate. So don’t. Because you won’t win. And it’s a silly game, anyway.