“I love the fact that I walk down the road in north London, and down here’s an Indian shop, and there’s another Indian stationers there, and this one is run by someone from Iran, and there’s a West Indian guy who runs that bit, and we’ve got the Romanian builders next door who don’t play the radio as loud as English builders.” Dozens of viewers used Twitter to criticise Oddie, accusing him of “demonising” the British working class. One tweeted: “Bill Oddie seems to have got trapped in his millionaire liberal bubble. Clearly doesn’t need to compete for social housing or a job.”