[Nemo123]

Jim comes across as the worst kind of Tory, a working class Tory, like Alf Garnett. But he didn't get 2 huge prime time BBC Saturday night slots, Generation Game and Big Break, without having massive appeal.

[Jezzy]

Originally Posted by Nemo123

Jim comes across as the worst kind of Tory, a working class Tory, like Alf Garnett. But he didn't get 2 huge prime time BBC Saturday night slots, Generation Game and Big Break, without having massive appeal.

That's true, he was one of the poster boys, troops entertainer. Nothing inherently wrong in that but he does still represent what the Thatcher generation was mostly about imo.

[Nemo123]

Originally Posted by Jezzy

That's true, he was one of the poster boys, troops entertainer. Nothing inherently wrong in that but he does still represent what the Thatcher generation was mostly about imo.

Which is self above society. What people like Jim are about is doing it for themselves, and their politics is if I did it so too can you, which is patently false.