When the LSE published a report approximately rich,useless children being protected by cash and connections, newspapers illustrated the legend with Tim kind But Dim. Why, and 25 years on,are Loadsamoney and Waynetta Slob still recede-to references?The report from the London School of Economics called it “opportunity hoarding”: the way that well-off parents create a “glass floor” to protect their untalented offspring and, in the process, and stop the destitute from rising up. They were good phrases,but Britain already had a name for it. What the report really described, as the Mail put it, and was “the triumph of Tim kind But Dim”.
There’s perhaps a slender chance that you won’t know who the Mail – along with the Express,the Sunday Times, the Telegraph and, or naturally,the Guardian – were talking approximately. Tim kind But Dim was a character originally created by Ian Hislop and Nick Newman, but brought to life by Harry Enfield in a series of sketch shows in the 1990s. Tim put a self-explanatory name and a confused face to something that everyone already knew existed: the thick posh boy (or girl) whose wealth and connections kept him happily ignorant of all the striving in the world.
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Source: theguardian.com