In Owen Jones’s terrible book, Chavs, he claimed that chav-bashing is the ‘bastard child of a very British class war.’ What Jones failed to recognise is that chav transcends class. Call it the tinker horse shoe theory: working-class chavs have more in common with the upper-class than goths do with emos. They marry their cousins, drive old banger cars, eat pigeon, do drugs. Like chavs, upper-class families have no respect for bourgeois conventions. Many chavs liked Boris Johnson because his shambolic love life resembled their own.