Toffs
These are some toffs.
There’s loads of kerfuffle about them in the papers at the moment because Toff#1 alledgedly attempted to scrounge some money off some Russians or something on Toff#7’s boat… and then denied it, so Toff#7 wrote a firmly worded letter to The Times (for that is what toffs do) and initiated a conversation that proceeded as follows:
Toff#7 : did
Toff#1 : didn’t
Toff#7 : did
Toff#1 : didn’t
Toff#7 : did
Toff#1 : didn’t
Toff#1 : did did did, times infinity and no returns. And whath more, if you disthagwee with me again I thall dethtwoy you caweeah
(that’s how they talk)
So that’t that. That photo was taken in Oxford… Bullingdon Club which surprised me slightly because I used to live round the corner from The Bullingdon (a pub) and it was too scruffy even for me, and I looked like this at the time:
On account of probably being a radical poet of some sort - like that one who’s girlfriend wrote Frankenstein etc.
Back in the day of course, these people looked a bit like this :
And it wasn’t called The Bullingdon Club it was called The Kit Kat Club - of which more shall be said later… and although they were different in every conceivable way, they were basically the same sort of thing. Toffs. The people who ran the place, and who we did not fucking vote for.
Anyway, at the time that I was there, the Bullingdon Club consisted of these Gentlemen:
In this one, Toff#8 is Major of London and the way things are looking, Toff#2 will become Prime Minister of Great Britain.
So what I want to know is… if we’re democratic, how come we’ve still got so many Toffs running the place? I mean I know there’s less of them than there used to be… but wtf? Surely The British Isles has got a population big and talented enough to eclipse an 18th Century rich-kid’s drinking club?
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And here’s the thing : The House of Lords recently rejected the 42 day detention plan as championed by our (Labour) government… and it seems that every time the the Lords get into the news, it’s to protect The British People from the fascistic manoeuvrings of a democratically elected parliament.
And I read Toff#8’s biography once - and he said that in his constituency (Henley upon Thames) about 90% of the crime… which cost the place a small fortune in policing and repair etc, was committed by the same small community of people trying to fuel drug habits which if paid for by the state would cost around 1 GBP per dose… and really, if we had any bally sense, we’d legalise all drugs, right now.
So much as I despise toffs on principle… in actual reality the situation is somewhat more complex I think… because the government we currently have is a product of an ethos of out-of-control free marketism… and this has lead to a situation where the population has become too distracted, and the 4th Estate corrupted, and the spin-doctors and consent-manufacturers toooo clever…
… there’s something not quite right here.
And why has toff#7 got a jacket lapel on his leg? Hmmm? Answer me that then.
The government we have is also (and more so) the product of an out of control desire by the left-liberal upper-middle class intelligentsia to run every aspect of the lives of the working and lower middle classes. In other words to reduce them to the condition of state serfs “lorded” over by the Guardian-reading classes, all funded with other people’s money of course (if necessary borrowed from China and the Middle Eastern oil states, both of which are fascist). Toffs (and indeed the working and lower-middle classes) tend to believe in traditional English liberties, which means letting people run their own lives. People with more responsibility have more self-esteem and initiative and and are more likely to behave in ways which are more beneficial for themselves, their children, and society at large.
Comment by Oliver Chettle — August 12, 2009 @ 12:24 pm
@Oliver Chettle
Patent nonsense.
You’re drinking the American right-wing cool-aid, which claims to be about “personal responsibility” but is really about corporate deregulation, and gutting social-services in favour of privatisation.
To this end, you (like many gullible right-wingers) have been persuaded by a highly corporatised media, that you’re being repressed by a “liberal elite”. This is also patent nonsense. It simply isn’t happening… “political correctness” is the only criticism of themselves that the press will print… because their bosses are just as fascist as you are.
Anyway… theory, theory, theory….
Just because it makes sense inside your own head, doesn’t mean it actually works.
Look at the Western world. Look at which countries are doing the best. Look at those not doing so well.
What you see is this gradient… the countries that are doing the best are the ones with sensible levels of social-spending… the more “liberal” the better; the ones fucking themselves sideways are the ones that have drunk the same cool-aid that you have.
Nothing you say is actually true.
Comment by Nick Taylor — August 12, 2009 @ 12:37 pm