Toby Young’s When Boris Met Dave, about the Bullingdon Club, was broadcast on More4 last night. Consider what would happen if a group of boys on a council estate, the same age as Oxford undergraduates, formed themselves into an organisation – complete with a name, a uniform, officers and a membership list – specifically for the purpose of becoming drunk and disorderly. Whereas the Bullingdon Boys go on to become, simultaneously, an aspirant Prime Minister, an aspirant Chancellor of the Exchequer, and an actual Mayor of London.
Living in rural England, as I have done most of my life and which is a very different matter from merely owning great swathes of it while living in Knightsbridge or Notting Hill, I suspect that the publicans of Oxfordshire are not without connections in the local constabulary and magistracy. One of those publicans should simply tell the Bullingdon Club to stick the money that they offered him at the end of one of their “events”, because he would be seeing them in court. How would it look for David Cameron and George Osborne if the Bully Boys were to be locked up for just long enough to have themselves sent down?
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I am surprised that you are surprised.
ReplyDeleteThe rugger buggers from Oxford and Cambridge who take over London for the Varsity game. Or indeed the types who go to watch the Rowing are upper class hooligans. Tanked up on classy booze is no different from the Toon Army descending on London tanked up on Newcy Brown Ale.
Again I refer to my last Uni experience. The misdemeanours of our cultural elite in QUB and prolly Durham are tolerated by our respective Constabulary.
While England is attached to hereditary principle, it is always the case that the Bully Boys get away with it.
The system of honours survives because some elderly looolipop woman in Consett and some old lag with 30 years working for the Civil Service in Belfast actually WANT a OBE or MBE to get on to the bottom rung of the ladder that Cameron, Osborne and Johnson are on.
Oh, I'm not suprised.
ReplyDeleteAnd good luck telling any lolipop lady that that was the effect of her MBE. She'd have a big stick. And she wouldn't be afraid to use it.
Oh I am always wary of lollipop ladies. Especially our local one. Her daughter is the Sinn Féin chair of the Policing Board.
ReplyDeleteI doubt either are waiting for that letter from the Cabinet Office. I framed mine as I was the old lag to whom I referred.