I too am a coal miner's grandson. Does this make me special? Does every Labour MP have to read my book? Am I no longer metropolitan? Are the grandchildren of coal miners now better, more authorative individuals than everyone else?
Great news if so
Great news if so
I suspect there's millions of people who are coal miners grandchildren. Are we all special suddenly? Have we inherited some sacred gene?
I'm truly terrible at maths but given there were at least a million miners in the UK in the 1940s I reckon a good percentage of us are probably the children, grandchildren or great grandchildren of miners...
My thanks to @CaroleBristol for introducing me to the term "prolier than thou" which I shall now be using metropolitan liberally elitistly
I've a whole chapter on Fake Family Sagas (FFS geddit) in my book. People often weaponise ancestors they never knew to make some point. We're all descendants of kings, coal miners, soldiers and peasants... it doesn't necessarily make us kings, coal miners, soldiers or peasants
We all do it... I certainly have
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