R&A Posted February 22, 2010 Share Posted February 22, 2010 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... ;) Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/10127-bullingdon-club-picture-banned/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jah Lush Posted February 22, 2010 Share Posted February 22, 2010 The bastards banned it more than a year ago. Feckers! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/10127-bullingdon-club-picture-banned/#findComment-299726 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peckhamgatecrasher Posted February 22, 2010 Share Posted February 22, 2010 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. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/10127-bullingdon-club-picture-banned/#findComment-299727 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mockney piers Posted February 22, 2010 Share Posted February 22, 2010 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?! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/10127-bullingdon-club-picture-banned/#findComment-299730 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jah Lush Posted February 22, 2010 Share Posted February 22, 2010 That'll be the fraudster and diamond thief Darius Guppy. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/10127-bullingdon-club-picture-banned/#findComment-299731 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ted Max Posted February 22, 2010 Share Posted February 22, 2010 Careful, Jah. Boris might have your address and phone number to hand. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/10127-bullingdon-club-picture-banned/#findComment-299734 Share on other sites More sharing options...
???? Posted February 22, 2010 Share Posted February 22, 2010 I dunno, strikes me as a bit of weird class war stuff criticism of them for thisAt 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 backgroundThat they have to try and hide it is a bit sad but also says someting about our class war crap a bit too. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/10127-bullingdon-club-picture-banned/#findComment-299737 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brendan Posted February 22, 2010 Share Posted February 22, 2010 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? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/10127-bullingdon-club-picture-banned/#findComment-299746 Share on other sites More sharing options...
???? Posted February 22, 2010 Share Posted February 22, 2010 I'm not in the gang anymore...true Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/10127-bullingdon-club-picture-banned/#findComment-299750 Share on other sites More sharing options...
*Bob* Posted February 22, 2010 Share Posted February 22, 2010 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. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/10127-bullingdon-club-picture-banned/#findComment-299759 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mockney piers Posted February 22, 2010 Share Posted February 22, 2010 Although in all fairness it would probably put me off.Sometimes the destination, however you get there, is more important than the journey. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/10127-bullingdon-club-picture-banned/#findComment-299761 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mockney piers Posted February 22, 2010 Share Posted February 22, 2010 lest we forget the george osborne one... Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/10127-bullingdon-club-picture-banned/#findComment-299763 Share on other sites More sharing options...
felt-tip Posted February 22, 2010 Share Posted February 22, 2010 one of them could crack a smile.Gideon Osbourne changed his name to George to distance himself from his background years ago. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/10127-bullingdon-club-picture-banned/#findComment-299777 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveT Posted February 22, 2010 Share Posted February 22, 2010 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. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/10127-bullingdon-club-picture-banned/#findComment-299787 Share on other sites More sharing options...
???? Posted February 22, 2010 Share Posted February 22, 2010 No, you mean like say Wedgewood-Benn to Benn? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/10127-bullingdon-club-picture-banned/#findComment-299792 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brendan Posted February 22, 2010 Share Posted February 22, 2010 What gets me is contempt for the publics? intelligence that underlies the assumption that people aren?t going to see right through them. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/10127-bullingdon-club-picture-banned/#findComment-299797 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveT Posted February 22, 2010 Share Posted February 22, 2010 Moved to the Tories has he quids?;-) Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/10127-bullingdon-club-picture-banned/#findComment-299799 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brendan Posted February 22, 2010 Share Posted February 22, 2010 How dare you cast aspersions upon the working class pedigree of the Viscount of Stansgate! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/10127-bullingdon-club-picture-banned/#findComment-299808 Share on other sites More sharing options...
legalbeagle Posted February 22, 2010 Share Posted February 22, 2010 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? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/10127-bullingdon-club-picture-banned/#findComment-299810 Share on other sites More sharing options...
R&A Posted February 22, 2010 Author Share Posted February 22, 2010 ...so why have they banned it? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/10127-bullingdon-club-picture-banned/#findComment-299812 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brendan Posted February 22, 2010 Share Posted February 22, 2010 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. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/10127-bullingdon-club-picture-banned/#findComment-299813 Share on other sites More sharing options...
???? Posted February 22, 2010 Share Posted February 22, 2010 It's not brave of them to ban it but it reflects the stupid class prejudices of british politics Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/10127-bullingdon-club-picture-banned/#findComment-299815 Share on other sites More sharing options...
legalbeagle Posted February 22, 2010 Share Posted February 22, 2010 R&A Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> ...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?! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/10127-bullingdon-club-picture-banned/#findComment-299816 Share on other sites More sharing options...
R&A Posted February 22, 2010 Author Share Posted February 22, 2010 my guess would be that it's just not the image the tory party want to portray anymoreDave is after all 'one of us' Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/10127-bullingdon-club-picture-banned/#findComment-299817 Share on other sites More sharing options...
legalbeagle Posted February 22, 2010 Share Posted February 22, 2010 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! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/10127-bullingdon-club-picture-banned/#findComment-299831 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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