Tuesday 7 August 2007

Bullingdon Boris

How many black members has the Bullingdon Club ever had? Has it ever even had one?

In fact, imagine if a group of "piccaninnies" with "watermelon smiles" were to organise themselves into a club (complete with a membership list, officers, some sort of uniform, the works) for the express purpose of smashing up pubs. They would rightly be prosecuted as a criminal conspiracy, and could reasonably expect to be imprisoned.

Whereas Life Members of an organisation of precisely that criminal kind, but comprised of white public schoolboys, can expect to be made Leader of the Opposition, Shadow Chancellor, putative (if doomed) Conservative candidate for Mayor of London, and so forth.

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