Interesting topic luke, prezza is full of nonesence. He has used- as mentioned in the programme- his working classness as a badge to advance his career.He made the decision to allow housing on ex factory sites- a decision that led directly to the loss of many thousand jobs as bosses shut down and sold the land for housing making millions but putting many out of work.
He made this decision because he is a numpty and as thick as two short planks.
Having said that the programme showed him to be more likeable than I had supposed. However, in true numbskull fashion he didn't pick up on the fact that when he suggested "why don't you try winda cleaning?" to the guy who was supposed to be the token underclass benefit person, the guys very proud reply was "I've worked doing that before". Only moments before he had said that he had never had a legitimate job since leaving school and had always relied on benefits. In other words he both claimed and worked. Rather brilliantly prezza then suggested he should raid the kids designer clothes budget for a week and buy some ladders.
Prezza mentioned several times that he waited tables as a steward at sea for a decade.This was his working class qualification, and the servility of it still rankled with him.Strange then that he should project exactly the same attitudes to us, as the ones he himself imagined so demeaning all those years ago.