They’re a daft lot, your Poms (except, of course, the Royals).
They will relish publicly embarrassing a woman who has got offside with the hoi-polloi by trying to uphold good manners and basic courtesies.
Yet they will excoriate the splendidly irreverent Jeremy Clarkson for making a comedian the butt of a joke.
The hapless woman has become infamous world-wide for her email about manners in which she criticised her future daughter-in-law for being uncouth.
The Daily Mail accordingly would have delighted in publishing unflattering pictures of her posted on Facebook.
They suggest “Carolyn Bourne may be less stuffy than she first appears, herself enjoying the odd moment of impropriety”.
One shot shows the woman dubbed ‘Miss Fancy Pants’ standing in her kitchen modelling a huge and not exactly flattering pair of bloomers over her trousers.
Another shows six young men standing in her kitchen with their trousers down around their ankles.