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'Peaky Blinders': Thomas Shelby has proved a working class hero is something to be

He was a working class man with no money when he left for the war, but the horrors of war made him realize that in order to remain safe he had to be rich

Freddie Thorne (Iddo Goldberg), the undisputed communist in BBC One's 'Peaky Blinders', once told Thomas Shelby (Cillian Murphy), no matter how rich the Shelbys get, they would always be working class. Yet, time and again the Shelby family has proven that their lifestyle represents anything but the working class.

The Shelby brothers never repeat the same suit twice, their matriarch, Polly Grey (Helen McCrory), probably had as many hats as the Queen, and the youngest Shelby sister, Ada (Sophie Rundle), is "the only woman in Birmingham in four-inch heels!" Yet, everytime someone mentions the Shelby family, the center of the Steven Knight-created show, their past seems to be littered with poverty while the men worked in mines and fought in the First World War.