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Arthur Daley was a character in the UK TV series '' Minder '' and the name has become synomynous in Britain with a wheeler dealer (e.g. he's a bit daleyesque, what an Arthur Daley etc.) Daley is a lovable rogue, very much perceived as a hero, someone getting away with foiling the system. Daley would align himself with Margaret Thatcher , seeing himself as the prime example of the self-made/self reliant man that Thatcher advocated in the 1980s.

Arthur Daley always referred to his wife as 'Er indoors

The role of Arthur Daley was played with much aplomb by George Cole between 1979-1993. He inspired the single ''Arthur Daley E's Alright'' by The Firm which reached No14 in the UK charts in 1982.