In an extract from an essay taken from his co-authored collection with Lee Rourke, Trying to Fit a Number to a Name, Tim Burrows discusses the culturally (re)enforced and self-fulfilling stereotypes of the TOWIE Essex and the 'archetypal' UKIP-supporting Essex Man via Samuel Beckett, Wilko Johnson and Mike Leigh
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