Bullingdon club picture banned

[R&A]

i hadn't realised that the conservative party.. i mean... the copyright owners of this picture managed to get it banned from use in the british press in the run up to the election??!!!

here it is in case anyone's forgotten what it looks like... ;)

[Jah Lush]

The bastards banned it more than a year ago. Feckers!

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Mr Guppy in today's Telegraph:

"I am not one of those self-hating old Etonians or ex-Bullingdonians and I have only contempt for those who seek to minimise that aspect of their past for political or career reasons.

"I will never renounce them simply because some chippy journalist or politician or blogger has a hang-up because he didn't go to Eton.

"In particular, the idea of having to disown them in return for the approval of people who hate Eton but admire Big Brother is as dishonest as it is demeaning," he says.

[mockney piers]

whilst i guess his willingness to retouch his bullingdonian past could be considered admirable, that all smack of the worst sort of solipsistic, arrogant (not to mention misguided) elitism you could possibly witness.

Mind you, look at them....is it any wonder?!

[Jah Lush]

That'll be the fraudster and diamond thief Darius Guppy.

[Ted Max]

Careful, Jah. Boris might have your address and phone number to hand.

[????]

I dunno, strikes me as a bit of weird class war stuff criticism of them for this

At their age I was spending a fair bit of my time with a group of lads (none of whom had been to Eton mind), wearing sartorially intersting clobber and not always entirely up to good...A lot of blokes hang around in one sort of gang or another at that age whatever their background

That they have to try and hide it is a bit sad but also says someting about our class war crap a bit too.

[Brendan]

Are you and your mates still part of a network where you bung each other jobs and collude, using each of your specific spheres of influence, to further the security and interests of your tribe?

[????]

I'm not in the gang anymore...true

[*Bob*]

Naturally the Bullingdon pic seems to confirm everything I already suspected about Cameron, Osbourne et al.

That said, from personal experience, "The Oxbridge Thing" is often cited somewhat unfairly with regards to having an easy pop at people who have been professionally successful - though I'm thinking more outside of politics here, admittedly.

Anyway, all this is beside the point. Not voting Conservative because of the Bullingdon picture would be like not going to see Nickelback because you don't like the typeface used on the poster.

[mockney piers]

Although in all fairness it would probably put me off.

Sometimes the destination, however you get there, is more important than the journey.

[mockney piers]

lest we forget the george osborne one...

 

[felt-tip]

one of them could crack a smile.

Gideon Osbourne changed his name to George to distance himself from his background years ago.

[SteveT]

The conservatives no longer like double barrelled names, so they are encouraging single sur names, the lengths they go to for power turns my stomach.

[????]

No, you mean like say Wedgewood-Benn to Benn?

[Brendan]

What gets me is contempt for the publics? intelligence that underlies the assumption that people aren?t going to see right through them.

[SteveT]

Moved to the Tories has he quids?;-)

[Brendan]

How dare you cast aspersions upon the working class pedigree of the Viscount of Stansgate!

[legalbeagle]

I'm not sure why anyone cares about this picture. The Bullingdon Club is just a group of blokes from University who got together in bad outits with slightly worse hairdos and got drunk a lot. There are lots of groups like that at lots of Universities, no? Or am I missing something?

[R&A]

...so why have they banned it?

[Brendan]

Yeah but for most of us when we went on about what we would do if we ran the country it was just drunken nonsense.

[????]

It's not brave of them to ban it but it reflects the stupid class prejudices of british politics

[legalbeagle]

R&A Wrote:

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> ...so why have they banned it?

I don't know! I really don't. When I said "why does anyone care" I meant the people in the picture! Really, why do they care?!

[R&A]

my guess would be that it's just not the image the tory party want to portray anymore

Dave is after all 'one of us'

[legalbeagle]

Well I suppose that must be it. But really, as far as I could see whilst at University, almost all of the boys, and a large number of the girls come to that, dressed badly, clubbed together in groups, and drank lots. So that would make them very much just like the majority!