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Wolf Hall: viewers confused as Henry VIII’s advisers less posh than Cameron’s cabinet

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Cardinal Wolsey, Ipswich butcher’s son: today he’d be on jobseeker’s thanks to Tesco moving in and causing the family shop to go tits up

As the hype builds for the BBC adaptation of Wolf Hall viewers are becoming increasingly confused by a certain aspect of the trailers and plot leaks.

“I thought is was based on real people,” said villager Julie Kettle. “But Henry VIII has advisers like Thomas Cromwell and Cardinal Wolsey who were from working class backgrounds. You just have to look at the current Cabinet to know that that would never happen, it must all be fake.” Continue reading

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Social mobility ‘still a problem in UK, thank heavens’, says Cameron

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Cameron enjoying a friendly word with a serf yesterday

David Cameron today agreed that huge steps would be needed to get people who are not white and middle class into top jobs, and spoke movingly of his great relief that there was no possibility of such steps being taken.

Mr Cameron, who went to Eton then Oxford, was speaking to reporters while riding his personal elephant on a short trip checking the moat around his Chipping Norton country estate. Continue reading

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