NEARLY 80 per cent of the Con Dem Coalition cabinet are millionaires, yet their attacks are hitting ordinary people hardestNEARLY 80 per cent of the Con Dem Coalition cabinet are millionaires – that’s 23 of the 29. Together they are worth about £60m.
Even the bosses admit it. The right wing Tory Daily Mail said the cabinet is “drawn almost exclusively from the ranks of the financial elite.”
It is also – as personified by Cameron and Osborne – part of the old public school and Oxford clique that ran the country up to the 1960s.
Their claims about representing a break from the old Tory past are utterly bogus when you actually look at who they are, and where they’re from.
In their days at Oxford, with their chum Boris Johnson the buffoonish Mayor of London, all three were members of the Bullingdon Club, what The Times called, “the ultimate club of super-wealthy hellraisers”.
Andrew Gimson, author of a biography of Boris Johnson, described how Boris, David and George spent their time at university in the “loads-of-money 1980s”:
“I don’t think an evening would have ended without a restaurant being trashed and being paid for in full, very often in cash. […] A night in the cells would be regarded as being par for a Buller man and so would debagging [removing the trousers] of anyone who really attracted the irritation of the Buller men.”
Interesting that David was to go on to demand harsh sentences for those who broke the windows of the Tory HQ on Millbank.
Was it concern for “violence” and “thuggery”? Or perhaps it was the political motive of resisting cuts of 30 pounds a week to FE college students or tippling tuition fees – when in David and George’s day they got a grant from the taxpayer like everyone else.
It wasn’t quite all free though.
There were a few overheads like the Bullindon Club uniform: a swallow tailcoat in Oxford blue with ivory coloured silk lapel revers, brass monogrammed buttons, a mustard waistcoat, and a sky blue bow tie. In addition there is a sky blue striped with ivory Club tie.
The full uniform costs in the region of £3,000.
