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Friday 10 February 2012

Class of '92

Alice Miles is on such good form in her piece about the Bullingdon boys that I may well call a special session of the ChipOx Club in order to grant her honorary membership:

This is not about class war. It was a big mistake for Labour to allow one of its trump cards - the far more prosaic life experiences of its senior figures and their consequent ability to understand the lives that ordinary people live - to be hijacked by those in the party who launched a crass and childish attack on “Tory toffs”. It doesn't matter if you are born rich and privileged - that isn't your fault; what matters is what you do with it. To wheel around Oxford in a super-rich drinking club, join Tory Central Office and marry the daughter of a member of the political or landed aristocracy doesn't suggest that you have been much exposed to the plight of the less advantaged, or that you cared much about them before political opportunity came knocking.

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