Reply #3: Toby Young is a white privileged heterosexual male who did PPE at Oxford! [View All]

[LeftishBrit]

And almost all the Cabinet are white privileged heterosexual males, and many of them did PPE at Oxford if it comes to that.

Yes, the Labour leaders too are not exactly representative of the population as a whole. But few are as aristocratic as Cameron or Osborne. Cameron is a direct descendant of King William IV, the uncle and predecessor of Queen Victoria, by one of his 10 illegitimate children by his mistress. So though William died 'without issue', his descendant is ruling us after all. King William appears in an old drinking song:

'So loudly sing for Billy our King,
Who lifted the tax upon beer!'

Whereas his descendant put 20% VAT on everything...

In any case, it's not just background but attitudes. Better an aristocrat who favours justice for all, like Tony Benn, than someone who rises from a poor background and then stomps all over poor people, like Norman Tebbit.

Speaking of backgrounds, I was very startled to find that the arch-elitist on education, Toby Young, is the son of left-wing educational sociologist Michael Young - who must be turning in his grave.