MOST Britons are not part of the social class they have always claimed they are, research has revealed.
The Institute for Studies found that most people claimed to be a member of a different class as a result of snobbery, inverse-snobbery, or not knowing what they were talking about.
Professor Henry Brubaker said: Most people are utterly confused about class, like the trustafarian called Hugo who thought he was working class because he makes his own bongos and sells them on Camden market.
Similarly, we encountered numerous well-off working-class people who were deeply thick and ignorant, but thought they were middle class because they lived next door to a doctor.
We also found a striking number of middle-class professionals who claimed to be working class because they went to work, which is a bit like saying youre a pirate because you once kept your pedalo out for too long on a boating lake.
Equally confused were criminally-inclined members of the underclass, all of whom claimed to be working class, despite the fact that selling weed and signing on is not a job.
Professor Brubaker said the most challenging part of his research was talking to upper-class people, because many of them believe that everyone owns a horse.
Office worker Tom Logan said: Im basically middle class, but my parents were working class, so I exaggerate my working classness to sound authentic and hard.
Its pathetic, but it does mean I sometimes get to have sex with impressionable posh women who dont realise Lady Chatterleys Lover is a load of bollocks.
