Thursday 8 October 2009

Bullingdon conference update

A member of the Conservative party has been arrested after he stole a 150 pound bottle of champagne from the Midland Hotel in Manchester. Police detained him overnight and released him the following morning without charge.

In his defence he claimed that his behaviour was in keeping with the spirit of the 'Bullingdon Club' to which the party leader, David Cameron, the Shadow Chancellor, George Osborne and Conservative Mayor, Boris Johnson all belonged in the 1980s. In fact had police not interrupted him when they did, he had fully intended to swing on chandeliers, trash hotel rooms and debag other party members.

Elsewhere, the Bullingdon is overshadowing Conservative plans in Europe. It has been alleged that members of the ultra-nationalist Fatherland and Freedom party are having second thoughts about aligning themselves with the Conservatives after they learnt about the former antics of its high command.

Their leader Roberts Zile who has been a Tory guest in Manchester this week was appalled when confronted with the details of some of its episodes. The worst amongst these was the night when Bullingdon members smashed almost all the glass of the lights and 468 windows in Peckwater Quad of Christ Church, along with the blinds and doors of the building.

As Zile walked away from gathering journalists he muttered under his breath: "They sound like a bunch of Waffen-SS thugs to me."

17 comments:

  1. Come, come, it was just youthful exuberance.

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  2. Remember the Tory conferences in the 80s? The Young Tories went in for all that goose stepping stuff, I seem to remember

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  3. You have to have a fair old bit of dosh to join the 'Buller'. Last time I looked the specially made tails cost 3K alone. Add to that the cost of damage and the expensive food...
    Not much chance of joining even if you are the most popular pleb in Oxford

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  4. Harold Macmilkman8 October 2009 at 16:21

    The OEs (Old Etonians) are gonna be back in the driving seat!

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  5. Old Etonians? Apparently they have wheeled on Bono, can you believe it?
    I thought that he was Nu Labour!

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  6. The wanton drunkenness and violence in which Bullingdon members engage makes me understand why Cameron wanted to hug a hoodie.
    Except in his case it would be hug a white tie and tails.

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  7. Apparently David Dimbleby was a Bullingdon club member. Wonder if he does a secret handshake when he interviews Dave... perhaps gives him an easy ride with the questioning... etc

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  8. Apparently Alan Clark and John Profumo were also members. And it clearly never affected their political outlook.

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  9. Bono wouldn't have a problem with Bullingdon antics. Don't rock stars get drunk, throw televisions out of hotel windows and smash up the rooms?

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  10. Apparently we're 'all in it together'. I wonder if they will now let me join the Bullingdon, so that we can all be in that together as well!

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  11. In his speech Cameron says he has a vision of Britain in which the poorest children go to the best schools.
    Eton's going to get pretty crowded.

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  12. I've always wondered whether Cameron, Boris and Boy George liked 'oiks' when they were at Oxford.
    And if not, when exactly did they learn to love them?

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  13. What a cynical bunch of comments. A lot of people do stupid stuff in their youth. Give the guy a chance.

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  14. Cameron's choice of Euro-mates is mad indeed, but it is obvious that he did it to calm the right-winger Euro-skeptics in his party.
    Europe clearly continues to be a problem and will be the Achilles heel leading up to the election.

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  15. Apparently the guy who stole the champagne said that he thought it free because it was near the 'free bar'. Sounds like the lamest possible excuse - Had he seen lots of other people helping themselves as well?

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  16. All this is so in the past. Who cares whether he and Osborne were members? What kind of leadership Britain gets is more important

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