Woebot
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as some (most) people on this board know i went to the same school as david cameron etc. [not] sorry if this comes as an horrific shock.
in fact i personally knew (some of them very well) the people in the george osmond bullingdon photo. it does turn the stomach quite a lot.
at the start i didn't like cameron as prime minister.
i hated all those years of endless headlines about eton college. in fact i remember it as quite a quaint old-fashioned institution with a very heavy emphasis on moral duty - arrogance and snobbery were frowned on. not cool. big money was not heavily in evidence. most of the pupils were from "nouveau poor" or fading aristocracy - upper middle classes on their uppers. lots of slightly mad and very bohemian families. children of the kind of etonians who were hanging out with the rolling stones. but MAINLY i suppose quite stupid and boring people on autopilot for life - who would unthinkingly repeat their own existence on their children ad infinitum...
the eton the newspapers describe - of oligarchs and royalty. that came with the princes and most especially with the headmaster tony little who relished the truly horrible rich ethos. but tbh i don't know if even that is a fair reflection of what it's like nowadays. BUT the fees are something 10x higher and the PR is curdled - so i'm probably right in saying that...
i DID come round to cameron. i know his wife - who was art school with me - and i think he's a sincere and genuinely reconstructed guy. certainly a bit of of a silly ass - BUT NOT A BAD PERSON. trying to do his best in fact. osbourne maybe made of weaker stuff.
who was there when i was at school was jacob rees-mogg. his house was beside mine. people used to come to my room and throw wet loo-roll out of the window at him as he entered that building below. jacob used to walk around, a rod for a back, with an umbrella at all times. i think he used to have a poster of margaret thatcher on his wall. at all times he was robotic and spoke to people (not arrogantly as such) as though they were infantile. honestly i don't think he would be a healthy choice for the kind of person to be prime minister.
in fact i personally knew (some of them very well) the people in the george osmond bullingdon photo. it does turn the stomach quite a lot.
at the start i didn't like cameron as prime minister.
i hated all those years of endless headlines about eton college. in fact i remember it as quite a quaint old-fashioned institution with a very heavy emphasis on moral duty - arrogance and snobbery were frowned on. not cool. big money was not heavily in evidence. most of the pupils were from "nouveau poor" or fading aristocracy - upper middle classes on their uppers. lots of slightly mad and very bohemian families. children of the kind of etonians who were hanging out with the rolling stones. but MAINLY i suppose quite stupid and boring people on autopilot for life - who would unthinkingly repeat their own existence on their children ad infinitum...
the eton the newspapers describe - of oligarchs and royalty. that came with the princes and most especially with the headmaster tony little who relished the truly horrible rich ethos. but tbh i don't know if even that is a fair reflection of what it's like nowadays. BUT the fees are something 10x higher and the PR is curdled - so i'm probably right in saying that...
i DID come round to cameron. i know his wife - who was art school with me - and i think he's a sincere and genuinely reconstructed guy. certainly a bit of of a silly ass - BUT NOT A BAD PERSON. trying to do his best in fact. osbourne maybe made of weaker stuff.
who was there when i was at school was jacob rees-mogg. his house was beside mine. people used to come to my room and throw wet loo-roll out of the window at him as he entered that building below. jacob used to walk around, a rod for a back, with an umbrella at all times. i think he used to have a poster of margaret thatcher on his wall. at all times he was robotic and spoke to people (not arrogantly as such) as though they were infantile. honestly i don't think he would be a healthy choice for the kind of person to be prime minister.
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