Bullingdon Club
 

At a time of national crisis, it is heartwarmimg to know that our future is in the hands of Prime Minister David Cameron, Chancellor George Osborne and London Mayor Boris Johnstone. All members of the Bullingdon Club......

....which gives them a special insight into the behaviour of the rioters and looters. They might even be able to teach them a thing or two about damaging restaurants!

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I don't see why this seems to be making people sit up and notice only now, post-riots.

His membership of the Bullingdon has been widely reported for years, and was even mentioned on Accy Web back in 2008.

http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/f...ron-37942.html

He had a typical elitist education, and indulged in the usual boorish Sloaney behaviour.

Hardly breaking news.

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He's spent the last week on his soapbox condemning loutish behaviour.

Of course its relevant now. breaking news or not.

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He wont regard it as loutish,cos they pay fer damage, which to me shows how much these people are outa touch wi reality.:rolleyes:

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His loutish background isn't breaking news.

Except perhaps to those who've been in a coma for the past few years.

It's very well documented, and has been widely published and publicised.

Some are now discussing it like it's some amazing revelation.

He wore tails to school, was a bun throwing Sloane, and married an aristocrat's daughter who has a tattoo on her ankle.

Well I never!

I suppose some Johnny-come-latelys will now want to discuss the relevance of him choosing The Killers as one of his choices, on Desert Island Discs.

:rolleyes:

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Besides paying for the damage, it's sorted anyway, because Daddy knows the Chief Constable, and every judge in the district.

:rolleyes:

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So by that argument, you'd be happy to let Ronnie Biggs look after your wallet because talk of the Great Train Robbery is old news?

:confused::confused::confused::confused::confused: :confused::confused::confused::confused::confused:

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But Ronnie Biggs hasn't been Prime Minster of the country, since May of last year.

That would be interesting news to people, if he was.

The majority of people know who's running the country, and know of his background.

It's not new information, except to those perhaps who've recently crawled out from under a stone.

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Again, it's hardly breaking news that personally I'm none to thrilled at who's running the country, period.

;)

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As usual another pointless thread which would be more fitting to Bee

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It would only be newsworthy, and therefore worth discussing in it's own thread, if we actually had a Prime Minister who wasn't guilty of gross hypocrisy.

:rolleyes:

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I think thats a way of saying "I can't justify Camerons actions",:dflam:

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Well there are those who haven't had anything positive to say since May 1st last year, but I suppose that's life;)

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Thats true, but yer answer proves me point.:D

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How do ya make that out:confused:

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cos yeh can't justify the prats comments,which are hypocritical to anyone without blinkers.;)

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Just depends which side of the political divide you site, maybe in the same way that I thought Blair, Brown and now Mr Ed, all talk a load of bollards, for want of a better word:D

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May the 1st? Oh dear your vote won't have counted then, everyone else that bothered to vote did it on May the 6th!
:(

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No-one can -only the man himself has the possibility of doing this....
The Bullingdon Club has been tolerated (almost with affection) in Oxford for a long time -initially because the class system meant that they (the aristocrats) were allowed to get away with anything (excepting murder probably!). Then, having become an institution within an institution, they were regarded as a part of the tradition which envelops the place. I suspect that Evelyn Waugh's book and the wonderful 1980's series of Brideshead Revisited helped to make them almost legendary there and regarded with a sort of patermalistic benevolence, "boys will be boys" ....as long as no-one gets hurt.
In the same way, the gangs of youths which are now causing so much trouble in large towns and cities in the UK (and world-wide) have been present for many years and largely tollerated within society. "Boys will be boys" applied here too for groups congregating and drinking a few cans, smoking cigarettes, maybe smashing the odd bottle, a bit of light anti-social behaviour, as long as they didn't exagerate.... Each decade has seen them in various guises, mods, rockers, hippies, new romantics etc
I doubt that your average teenager hanging about in town has ever heard of the Bullingdon Boys but there are similarities between them. Except that your average teenage gang seems to have shifted it's limits wrt 20 or 30 years ago, these days they grow up in a "have it all" society and really want to "have it all" - the Bullingdon Boys-past and present already "have it all and more". The hypocrisy lies in denial -but then Cameron did want to hug a Hoodie at one point -perhaps he had glimpsed himself as a young man....

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Very interesting read, that post, mobertol.