Click here to watch 'Chav Hunting' on YouTube

A public school was at the centre of a fierce row last night after pupils appeared in a spoof video beating and shooting tracksuit-clad teenagers and engaging in a pursuit they called “chav hunting”.

Glenalmond College in Perthshire, whose old boys include Robbie Coltrane and the Duke of Argyll, was accused of arrogance after students were shown posing as young aristocrats chasing their social inferiors across the countryside before shooting them using a replica shotgun.

Roseanna Cunningham, the Scottish Nationalist Party MSP for the area, said last night: “I suppose this video could be billed as the revenge of Monty Python’s upper-class twits. Doubtless it is intended as humour and irony but it comes across as brash, crass and arrogant.”

She added: “Is that really what their parents are paying for when they send their privileged offspring to an exclusive school like Glenalmond?”

In the video, entitled Class Wars, young gentlemen in perfect riding attire are seen on horseback swigging champagne before setting out on their hunt. They come across a group of chavs, dressed in the telltale Burberry caps, tracksuits and designer trainers of Britain’s white underclass, chasing them along a country lane before rounding on one of them. As the chav lies on the ground, one of the riders dismounts and prods him with a cane while a hound sniffs at him.

As the video reaches its conclusion, the chavs are seen running for their lives across a lawn while a double-barrelled shotgun picks them off one by one and they tumble to the ground in slow motion. To rousing classical music, a pair of young aristocrats prod a chav with their guns, looking pleasantly satisfied as they assure themselves that he is dead. All those involved in the video, both chavs and aristocrats, are believed to be current or former pupils at the school.

The three-and-a-half-minute video, posted on the YouTube website under the category “Chav Hunting”, identifies the film’s location as Glenalmond.

The school, which costs up to £22,500 in yearly fees for boarders and is set in 300 acres of rolling countryside outside Perth, boasts that it aims to instil in its pupils “timeless qualities that have their roots firmly in the British tradition: courtesy, honesty, integrity, modesty and a respect for others”.

Glenalmond College refused to comment last night.

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