Ah, so according to his 'bucket list' video, Alfie's dad went to Oxford... that somehow makes a lot of sense. I knew he had a high-powered managerial/ executive-type I.T. career, but that specific piece of info. I'd never come across. Now, don't get me wrong, I have NOTHING against anyone at Oxford, or who's graduated therefrom- but in Alfie's own case, it goes a long way to explaining his whole 100% self-assured manner. The whole 'I'm just like you! Honest!' matey approach (notwithstanding Alfie's accent, and come to think of it, his dad's) rather falls flat when you consider that Alfie, this 'self-made success', was raised in the household of an Oxford-alumnus parent. Nick Deyes was never very likely to have made a massive balls-up of his life with that on his C.V., was he..? Even though this isn't news to anyone who's ever watched him interact with his parents/ describe his childhood, this automatically places him as from a considerably more privileged background than the very great majority of his audience. The 'high-powered career' element alone would have accounted for this, but Nick Deyes having been at Oxford too really just serves as the icing on the cake. Don't get me wrong, Nick himself probably worked bloody hard to get there (I'm assuming, anyway- don't know what HIS dad did after all!), and probably even with his Oxford degree (and subsequent I.T. degree), worked bloody hard to reach his level of status in I.T., but the fact is, both his children have managed to succeed with the minimum of actual 'work'- I don't really count filming yourself as 'work', honestly, even if Alfie did have to come across as charismatic enough to appeal to his audience when he was building his career- probably easy enough to come across as well-adjusted and all when you've grown up in, at the least, an upper-middle-middle class household, eh Alfie? 'Tory' indeed
