Bullingdon Club Britain: The Ransacking of a Nation

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But then the contracts kept coming and the millions added up and then it ended up billions worth of contracts going to Tory donors. With the Brexit campaign and the elections of populists Donald Trump, Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, Giorgia Meloni in Italy and Narendra Modi in India, this seems to be a feature of world democracies, not simply a passing bug. Dafydd Jones". Dafjones.thirdlight.com. 27 June 1984. Archived from the original on 8 March 2012 . Retrieved 13 September 2013.

Told by the journalist who exposed the billions of pounds in COVID contracts handed to friends of the Conservative Party, this book will reshape how you view power in modern Britain. According to Tim Flight, prostitutes are a regular fixture at Bullingdon events. ‘We always hire whores,’ says Ralph Perry-Robinson, a veteran of the 1987 skirmish with Cameron and Johnson. Women of their own class invited to social gatherings are encouraged to commit degrading acts. ‘At informal gatherings we would make them get down on all fours like a horse, whinny, and bring out hunting horns and whips,’ Tim Flight was told.We want our comments to be a lively and valuable part of our community - a place where readers can debate and engage with the most important local issues. The ability to comment on our stories is a privilege, not a right, however, and that privilege may be withdrawn if it is abused or misused.

Harriet Sherwood, ‘Sexism, vandalism and bullying: inside the Boris Johnson-era Bullingdon Club’, The Observer (July 2019). 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.” Sherwood, ‘Sexism, vandalism and bullying: inside the Boris Johnson-era Bullingdon Club’, The Observer . The TV series Peep Show referenced the Bullingdon Club in the first episode of its final series. [48] Home Secretary Suella Braverman questions whether 1951 UN Refugee Convention is 'fit for our modern age'Identity, Empire and the Culture War Byline Times explores the weaponisation of Britain’s past as a key tool in a dark project of division and distraction We can enjoy Bright’s careful but eminently readable unmasking of the deeply flawed elite that has spent the past 13 years of Conservative government enriching itself and its friends while running down the public services and, since Brexit, the protective regulations that the rest of us depend on.