SIR - Who is it that helps maintain the class system? None other than the likes of Eric Firth (T&A, October 2).
He is always banging on about the working class, most of whom aspire to winning the lottery to jump a class and become the "nouveau riche" elite.
I am confident many of the "middle class", but not John Prescott, I should think, will have sons who have joined the services.
And most people work, not necessarily dirtying their hands or muscles which most people have but using brain power, which the majority do not have but do benefit by from others, whom he criticises.
How does Mr Firth propose helping the "working class" of Darfur not only to stay alive but to earn literally a crust and a drop of water?
An answer please, or is it only the moaning, as he likes to put it, British working class that matters?
Philip Bird, Nab Wood Terrace, Shipley
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