Nick Hurd’s comments suggesting that out of work young people don’t have the ‘grit’ to find themselves a job have been met with derision and anger.

Whether there is any truth in what he said is in some ways less interesting than the fact that he shouldn’t have said it. Why?Well because he went to Eton. That makes him privileged, so how can he possibly know what it’s like to be an ordinary, out of work young person.

Maybe we should feel a bit sorry for him, after all it’s not his fault he was born into a family that sent him to Eton and set him on a path where he couldn’t possibly understand what it was like to be normal.

So, can an old Etonian lecture us on ‘grit’? Sure he can, he is entitled to say what he pleases. The important thing is that none of us ordinary people listen to him and yes I particularly mean you Daily Mail readers.

And let’s not get too bent out of shape about it. It’s much more fun to see the funny side. As Mitch Benn, comedian and songwriter quipped, “If you don’t have the grit or gumption to be born into a rich and important family, you’ve no one to blame but yourself.”