Bullingdon Club Britain: The Ransacking of a Nation

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The result has been the evolution of a great British plutocracy – a state in which political leaders are dependent on, or are heavily under the influence of, wealthy individuals who derive their growing riches from the decisions taken by their accomplices in high office.

Bullingdon members “found it amusing if people were intimidated or frightened by their behaviour. I remember them walking down a street in Oxford in their tails, chanting ‘Buller, Buller’ and smashing bottles along the way, just to cow people.” a b The Oxford Student (12 January 2005). "Smashing job chaps: Exclusive inside look at Bullingdon club". Archived from the original on 6 August 2009.Roddie Fleming (1953-), former chairman of Fleming Family & Partners, and nephew of James Bond creator Ian Fleming. [74]

His family made their money in merchant banking and he's most recently been working with the Scottish Government and regeneration agencies examining ways of delivering affordable housing.Educated at Rugby School and Oriel College, Oxford, Fergusson left the firm in February 2018 to go self-employed. I particularly worked on the PPE contracts and I was sceptical about the story when it first emerged. A decade of grinding austerity and stagnant wages has been accompanied by the enrichment of political and corporate elites. In this way, the political, social and economic establishment in Britain is effectively acting as a private club for the privileged, dedicated to its own gluttony at the direct expense of ordinary people. Money and power are hoarded among this alliance of aristocrats, oligarchs and their butlers – and you’re not invited.

Now regions like the North East too are providing a favoured location for investment by ethically dubious individuals and regimes, not in mansions but in the potentially hugely profitable green industries of the future Today, Bright argues, an old declining British elite, with its roots in Eton and Oxford, desperate for self-preservation, is merging with a new international elite happy to exploit this country as a safe haven for its cash. All this is to the detriment of decent working British people who have been fooled into believing that their real political and economic enemies are liberal, woke, university-educated, mainly metropolitan remainers. The club was active in Oxford in 2008/9, although not registered with the University. In his retirement speech as proctor, Professor of Geology Donald Fraser noted an incident which, not being on University premises, was outside their jurisdiction: "some students had taken habitually to the drunken braying of 'We are the Bullingdon' at 3 a.m. from a house not far from the Phoenix Cinema. But the transcript of what they called the wife of the neighbour who went to ask them to be quiet was written in language that is not usually printed". [31] And at its heart are two of the country's foremost politicians of the past decade - David Cameron and Boris Johnson. In the humdrum age of robo-politicians, technocrats and wonks, Johnson stood out as vivid and real. Like Trump, he provided a kind of personal authenticity against the calculation, caution and double-speak of standard political output. His former chief advisor Dominic Cummings might now characterise him as a crazy “trolley”, careening around the corridThe 15 students were served 24 bottles of red wine, 24 bottles of white wine, and plenty of champagne. The damage they inflicted ran into hundreds of dollars.