Indeed, today a sort of inverted snobbery operates, so accents either have to be regional or a curiously bland "Estuary English".
It's not uncommon among musicians to find inverted snobbery or even envy towards those whose talents might be said to be disproportionate to their incomes and their audiences.
An outbreak of inverted snobbery has gripped the barbecue-diners of Sydney. They're investigating their family trees in the hope of finding a convicted felon in the branches.
The problem with inverted snobbery is that it tends to celebrate the wrong kind of working-class culture: the non-working kind, in fact.
