Bullingdon Club Britain: The Ransacking of a Nation

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a b The Oxford Student (12 January 2005). "Smashing job chaps: Exclusive inside look at Bullingdon club". Archived from the original on 6 August 2009. During the Tony Blair and Gordon Brown years (1997 – 2010), there was record investment in the NHS, schools and public services, an infrastructure rebuilding programme, the introduction of a minimum wage, and the Good Friday Agreement, ending the ‘Troubles’ in Northern Ireland. Labour delivered Civil Partnerships, the Equality Act and the Human Rights Act. He first set out in the world of corporate finance and once tried to set up a firm to sell videos through vending machines but the venture failed before it got off the ground.

The Bullingdon Club is a private all-male dining club for Oxford University students. It is known for its wealthy members, grand banquets, and bad behaviour, including vandalism of restaurants and students' rooms. The club selects its members not only on the grounds of wealth and willingness to participate but also by means of education. However, the Prime Minister’s ascendancy can’t just be put down to the sclerotic hierarchies of public school, Parliament, literary magazines and the right-wing press. He learned to tap into a much wider constituency that wanted to escape reality and appealed to the selfish, carefree six-year-old in all of us. Fact Articles predominantly based on historical research, official repo In 2015, he led the Tories to a resounding General Election win over Ed Miliband's Labour to assume power outright.Nicholas Freeman (2011). Eighteen Hundred and Ninety-five. Edinburgh University Press. pp.55–. ISBN 978-0-7486-4056-0.

A photograph of the club taken in 1992 depicted George Osborne, Nathaniel Philip Rothschild, David Cameron's cousin Harry Mount and Ocado founder Jason Gissing. [41] He was educated at Rugby school and reportedly met Johnson at Oriel College, Oxford. According to a 2008 report in the Daily Mail, Fergusson was one of six Bullingdon Club members who attended a fundraising event for Johnson’s London mayoral bid, held in Millbank Tower in Westminster. Argument Honestly held opinions and provocative argument based on current events or our recent reports. The panel was made up of Evans, former children’s commissioner Anne Longfield, Vote Leave figure Baroness Gisela Stuart, and Darren Tierney, the director general of propriety and ethics in the Cabinet Office.Today, Bright argues, an old declining British elite, with its roots in Eton and Oxford, desperate for self-preservation, is merging with a new international elite happy to exploit this country as a safe haven for its cash. All this is to the detriment of decent working British people who have been fooled into believing that their real political and economic enemies are liberal, woke, university-educated, mainly metropolitan remainers. Tim Walker (24 June 2010). "George Osborne's age of austerity starts with a bang for the Bullingdon Club". The Daily Telegraph. London. To many of these politicians – the ones who have jumped on the conveyor belt leading from an elite private school, to Oxbridge, and then to Parliament – democracy is simply a game. Whether a former member of the Bullingdon Club or not, they share, or have learned, the mentality – seeming to have no real concept of the harm they can cause. Their only understanding of politics is through frivolous, theoretical slanging-matches at student debating societies. In her first week at Oxford in 1983, she was approached by a member of the club to identify potential recruits – a role she performed throughout her time as an undergraduate. She also had an 18-month relationship with a man who became a president of the club. In her final year at Oxford, she shared a house with Bullingdon members. The allegation made against the club is that it shows there is one rule for the rich and another for everyone else.