Down The Ramp

The Office for Students is so unimportant that they have given it to Toby Young in order to keep his fanboys sweet. They would never do that with anything that really mattered. Since this is obviously a non-job, or else no one would have given it to him, I find it hilarious that those fanboys are so easily bought off.

I hope that those of you who want to the Government to create the kind of right-wing intellectual culture that exists on the Continent not only appreciate the double irony, but are exactly as proud as you ought to be that your standard-bearer is to be, of all people, Toby Young.

If Toby Young is ever given any job, then that job, in the very loosest sense of the word, has been invented for Toby Young. If a private company chooses to invent such positions, then that is literally its own business. It is, however, an entirely different matter for this to be done at public expense. But his drinking companions will not be in Government forever. Two can play at the game of appointing totally unqualified people who happen to be political allies.

Imagine if Jeremy Corbyn had appointed to anything someone who advocated "progressive eugenics", who called disabled children "troglodytes", who opposed wheelchair ramps in schools, who bragged about supplying Class A drugs, who bragged about getting into Oxford without the grades because his daddy had made a telephone call, and who called the people who had earned their places "stains".