What I actually said was that some posters and yes I do mean Grayling, consider people to be "riff-raff" if they happen to be poor.

As for "breeding", that seems to consist of a small group, of those who consider themselves somehow to be 'elite'; shagging their second cousins.

That's not breeding. It's what you do to get better looking dogs. Superficially they may look better, but under that exterior they're full of defects.

G has talked about poor people a few times (when he's tired to the backteeth, or obviously fustrated with riff-raff running down the UK), but his main thrusts are cultural, I think. Always has been.

Are you talking about the aristocracy? Because I don't think G appears in Burke's Peerage...

He's probably just middle-upper class - or identifies with people whose culture has been passed on - like the working classes.

It does exist and you know if you are part of it or not. It's obvious.

Well I don't whinge about the locations I live in. Then again I would live in a place if I didn't like it. Therefore that crosses Brisbane and Blackpool off the list

indeed....there are places I don't like but I have no reason to be labelled as riffraf so even if I whinged it wouldn't matter..

my favorite notion is riffraff whinging about riffraff on BE, the international relations of riffraffdom....

A long and established tradition!

I reckon you're dead wrong there mate...

According to him he has the riches of Croesus and can hardly wait to move from this awful place back to his estate in the UK...as soon as he cracks the 17,000 post level.

Why should we doubt him...?

....and you can't even sort your pensions out

I will give you a few tips for the horses if you want

I don't gamble 'G' ....I've seen the damage it can cause, the heartbreak, the misery and the resulting breakdown in relationships.

The bitterness of losing yet again, your anger at your inability to kick the habit...

Thanks but no thanks mate, I'd hate to wind up like you.

Maybe you should have stopped sooner if you were no good at it

Did I hit a nerve ?

You forgot to add a smilie...

You seem to be the one with the pension problems

riff·raff  (rfrf)
n.
1. People regarded as disreputable or worthless.
2. Rubbish; trash.
[Middle English riffe raffe, from rif and raf, one and all, from Anglo-Norman rif et raf, rifle et rafle : Old French rifler, to rifle; see rifle2 + Old French raffler, to carry off (from raffle, act of seizing; see raffle1).]

Many of retirement age owning property who moved to Brissy in 2003 and is about to return is likely to be able to buy a house for cash.

Especially as I moved a big wedge of cash at 1.50 to the pound

You don't say!
If you moved over 10 years ago you won at 2.5+ this way...
just the gains you realised might buy a house out right...

I hope you don't cark it too soon....

Of course he does say... its the sort of thing he's forever saying.