The Daily Mirror is, to put it mildly, obsessed with David Cameron’s social background. But Paul Routledge demonstrates an alarming lack of knowledge when he fumes that:
“Deregulating the City, so bankers could steal the cash and get rich was [Thatcher’s] idea.
Cameron is hard-wired with them. They’re his tribe.
He gets his money from them, mixes with them, married one, and went to school with the b******s.”
Leaving aside that the old aristocracy and those who profited from the big bang and other Thatcherite reforms are actually fairly distinct groups, Samantha Cameron is not and never has been a banker. More broadly, Routledge should decide who his enemy is. Thatcher is one of the British Prime Minsters who can claim to have done most to weaken the class system.
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