I think it was stereotyping the civil service. Insinuating that they were the ones really running the country, and the high enders of the service all went to Oxford or Cambridge. A class distinction within the upper class who made up the majority of university graduates at that time.
Of course this was all before the last government put an end to apprenticships by trying to get everybody to go to university. One of many reasons why the country is in a mess today. Very few people going into 'skilled' jobs, all instead looking for the 'get rich quick' fix of academia!
"I'm not really me. Thats me there- that pile of albino mouse droppings!"
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