A question for UK listers

[Mike Weaver]

To add to Paul's comments:
David Gentle is correct to ask what class you have in mind Dave, 
though I think he's a tad mechanical in his description of class 
differences. Remember economic and cultural class differences are not 
the same thing. Plenty of people come from and are, culturally, of 
one class while their economic situation and outlook is of another.
To be realistic you would need to decide what situation this 
character was born into - class origins, the economic fortunes of his 
parents throughout his childhood - rising, falling or stable -  Then 
there is where in the UK he grew up - I'd say there are big regional 
differences in working class culture, less in middle class and less 
again in upper class. However the local dominance of particular class 
cultures are a variant cross current acting on the regional differences.