Is he going for this role for the sake of the university, the students or his own agenda? And no, the three are rarely found together.

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Egg-sarnie is an amateur. If you want a better example of smear by association, see the Daily Mirror of 10 December 2005.

By Bob Roberts, Deputy Political Editor
SNOOTY David Cameron has dished out top jobs to fellow old Etonians,
breaking his pledge to be a man of the people.

Yesterday Mr Cameron appointed multi-millionaire Zac Goldsmith, another
former pupil of Britain’s poshest school, to be his top environmental
adviser.

Eton crony Boris Johnson was given the plum job of Tory spokesman on higher
education and failed Shadow Chancellor Oliver Letwin, who was at Eton in the
70s, was kept sweet with the prime position of policy director.

Another old boy Hugo Swire was made Shadow Culture Secretary. A senior
Labour Party source said: “Far from looking for the best and the brightest,
Cameron has just picked a few old school chums.”

All good, sneering stuff. But let’s look a little deeper into this.

First, Zac Goldsmith as described by The Guardian (no less): “The golden boy of British environmentalism and anti-capitalism” whose biggest beef is “the marauding, modern global version of capitalism that is taking over the planet via the World Bank and the World Trade Organisation, allowing huge corporations to plunder and lay waste to the world’s resources, further impoverishing developing countries and effectively keeping them in permanent bondage without them ever being able to catch up.”

Oliver Letwin, again from the Grauniad: “In a seeming break from the Thatcherite ethos, Mr Letwin – who is now the director of policy for the Tories, masterminding a series of policy reviews – said that welfare was ‘more than a matter of safety nets – we should redistribute money’.” He was a director of Rothschild until 2003 and Fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge (1981-1983).

I know less about Hugo Swire’s politics but, according to his biog, he has served in the army, worked in independent television, was head of development at the National Gallery and a director of a major London auction house.

As for Boris, what more can one add about the master political freewheeler of our generation?

It would be hard to find an assortment of people less like cronies. Cronies are yes-men. Cronies are in thrall to their patrons. They will always toe the policital line and may sometimes be good for a brown-envelope deal.

All I see in this lot is open minds and considerable experience of the real world, unlike the polytechnic lecturers and professional committee-sitters who dominate Blair’s circle. OK, they went to the same school, an institution famous for turning out great policitians. I can well understand why Cameron finds it easier to deal with people he knows and trusts. That does not make them cronies.

Of course the Mirror – and many of its readers no doubt – are not interested in the detail because it spoils their nasty little sport.

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It’s a classic example of lazy argument which appeals to lazy thinkers. No sentence is actually false and as a whole the piece is not inconsistent with some view that the speaker wishes to support. The best riposte is ‘ and your point is..’ followed by ruthless slaughter of any logical non sequiturs that poke their ugly little head above the parapet.

Whilst agreeing with your points about Eton I must remind you that Churchill was a Harrow man.

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As far as you know? AS FAR AS YOU KNOW

Here we go again, another clever dick who thinks he’s got a cast-iron case by mixing “convicted faudster”, “public schoolboys” and an MP in the same sentence. At least he has the decency to temper it with “the story continues…”

When will you empty-headed, class obsessed bigots realise that going to Eton is not a crime? Furthermore, it has produced some of the most influential thinkers of the last century, along with a clutch of politicians who maintained Britain’s high (and rapidly declining) standing in the world?

So who do you want this country to be run by? Chavs?

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Don’t worry – it’s me. I used to have senior moments – now they are expanding into hours. I can’t even blame Tesco’s Extra Special Substandard Scotch.

Nurse is coming with my medication. A very good evening to you all.

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Has the guy who hunted and trapped the entire Fox industry run foul of the anti-hunt brigade in the New Labour camp.
Who was it , especially , that you had in mind as a Murdoch Arschlecker?

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B****r! Can I plead artistic licence?

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