It shouldn't be hilarious but still, watch and be alarmed

[Paddy]

Link to a Youtube video of Katie Hopkins on This Morning, openly being an absolute narrow-minded upper class middle-aged woman and her out of time views on class. Worth watching if only to be entertained in the worst fashion possible:

[Brad]

Mumsnet have this covered lol

[nakamura]

Quite an interesting topic. I have to admit though when I hear a plainly insane childs name I do want to find out the parents and see what they are like. You should never single a child out for a stupid decision the parent has made.

[vanpeebles]

Ask anyone who works in a school, she does have a point about stupid chav kid names.

[EDDIE M0NS00N]

She is a bit ott, but I will say that cannot stand the fact that parents name their children after pop stars, porn stars/actors or celebs.

Ffs if that is whats most important & is the only thing swirling around in their brain then they don't even deserve to have the ability to procreate.

The best piss take on this kind of thing is that 13 yr old girl who names her baby Coolio on the TV series Benidorm

[EJG1980]

Haven't watched the video (Firefox flash problems, grr) but I read an article which mentioned that she complained about people naming their kids after geographical locations (Brooklyn Beckham, etc) only for the presenter to remind her that she named one of her own daughters India

[Paddy]

[Lyris]

Who is the posh old horseface anyway? Is she some footballer's wife or something?

[sj33]

When you get into the realm of the crazy names that celebrities tend to give their children, then there might be some cause for cynicism. On the other hand, this is hardly the fault of the child (who might be a perfectly normal, intelligent child, after all). In that sense, whilst we may cringe at some of the novelty names that celebrities give their children, we shouldn't draw any serious conclusions from it.

The most painful element of this video for me was her anachronistic attitudes towards class and supposed intelligence related to this. We as a society have moved on past her views, we now how working class people who are able to be extremely successful in business and go far in education. That's not to say that rich people don't tend to get more opportunities, but the line has blurred. We can no longer (for example) assume that a child with a name of Irish decent must somehow be unsuccessful. These are the kinds of anachronistic conclusions that she is drawing. How a name indicates a person's class, thus indicating how successful a person is, thus somehow indicating how intelligent a person is. This is nonsense.

[nakamura]

My little girl is named after a Final Fantasy character. I wonder how she would judge that.
Oh wait, I just remember I don't give a sh*t.

[Colin]

She needs to sort out her own personality before judging anyone else. Ugly inside and out.

[buster_broon]

You named someone cloud - shame on you

Horseface was In The UK apprentice and got down to the last 3 and decided to walk from the process

Lord sugar was mightily pissed off to say the least

[nakamura]

Haha!

I must admit I had never heard of her until now.

[MonkeyJuggleDX]

God I despise that woman. I don't condone hitting women, but she really does need a baseball bat to the head. Multiple times.

[Lyris]

The most painful element of this video for me was her anachronistic attitudes towards class and supposed intelligence related to this. We as a society have moved on past her views, we now how working class people who are able to be extremely successful in business and go far in education. That's not to say that rich people don't tend to get more opportunities, but the line has blurred. We can no longer (for example) assume that a child with a name of Irish decent must somehow be unsuccessful. These are the kinds of anachronistic conclusions that she is drawing. How a name indicates a person's class, thus indicating how successful a person is, thus somehow indicating how intelligent a person is. This is nonsense.

What I always find funny about the British talking about this subject is when they on one hand condemn the concept of "classes" at all ... and then go on to re-enforce them by using the term. The presenters in that clip did it. Even referring to someone as a different "class" is snobbish in itself, so why keep doing it?