Posh guys

"Now Boris Johnson is mayor is it cool to be posh?" spør Daily Telegraph, i en riktig kostelig artikkel, med utgangspunkt i at både Johnson og partileder Cameron er etonianere. Noen høydepunkter:

"It was like a donkey sanctuary," said the Telegraph nark infiltrated into Boris Johnson's victory party in the Millbank Tower. "Lots of very drunk public schoolboys alternately booing and cheering at BBC News 24 as first Boris then Ken came on. You know, like very, very drunk."

Og til det er det bare å si at det høres ut som det var rett så moro. Og det var det tydeligvis på universitetet også:

"And both he [Cameron] and Boris were members of the Bullingdon, a very posh, if daft, Oxford drinking club. Labour tried to pin this on both Boris and Dave (as the leader of the Tory Party likes to be known).

Out came the picture of them posing with the rest of the Bullingdonians, looking like a gathering of the Oxford branch of the Spandau Ballet Appreciation Society. It reeked of arrogance and entitlement, but no one cared. Labour played the class card and lost."

Og min favoritt:

"Dave could buy his kids their own public school but sends them to a C of E state instead. As for his wife Samantha, well, she has a dolphin tattoo and grew up near Scunthorpe - although in a bit of "near Scunthorpe" that has been in the family since 1590."

Som sagt, kostelig ...

Forøvrig er ikke Boris egentlig så veldig posh: "The truth is, though, that Boris is not really posh at all - not by truly posh standards. His dad was an MEP, after all." Hvilket får Toby Young til å kommentere: "I don't think we'll see the return of the young fogey. Imagine everyone trying to ape Boris. How post-modern: people pretending to be a man who is pretending to be posh."