Vox Political Invents the Theresa May Drinking Game

Mike has also made a few acute observations about Theresa May’s complete inability to articulate any clear vision for Britain, except to parrot the words ‘strong and stable’ at every opportunity instead of giving a clear answer.

Well, I suppose we shouldn’t expect anything more from the woman. When asked about Brexit, she just mindlessly repeated the formula ‘Brexit means Brexit’ like a scratched record, all while glaring at the crowd as if they were morons even to ask her such as basic question. She’s got no answers and is incapable of saying anything unless it’s previously been programmed into her by Lynton Crosby back at Tory Central Office.

So Mike’s decided to have a bit of fun with it. He’s invented a new drinking game. You take a bottle of something nice – it doesn’t have to be booze. Abstainers can enjoy it with a soft drink or a cordial. And then every time May repeats the word ‘strong’ or ‘stable’ you take a slug. If you haven’t had a ‘lavatorial accident’ by the end of the footage, then somebody’s edited the clip.

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Clearly, if you that every time she appears on TV or in the media, it won’t be long before you’re in that state frequently enjoyed by the late, great Oliver Reed. Which is possibly the only way many people are able to stand her.

Cameron’s Class Background, Prejudices and Osborne’s ‘Workers’ Budget’

This morning the lead story in the i was that Cameron had been told by the Tories that he had to stop the gap between North and South widening any further. Further to this story, Osborne had been preparing a ‘Worker’s Budget’ for next week. Quite how far Cameron is from anyone, who could remotely be described as working class is explained in detail in Owen Jones’ Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class (London: Verso 2012).

Cameron’s father, grandfather and great-grandfather were all stockbrokers. His primary school was Heatherdown Preparatory School in Berkshire, whose old schoolboys include Princes Andrew and Edward. When he was eleven he flew across the Atlantic with a group of his school chums to go to the birthday party of Peter Getty, the grandson of the oil billionaire, John Paul Getty. He was, of course, like all good snobs, educated at Eton. Before he went to university, he worked as a researcher for the Tory MP Tim Rathbone, who was his godfather. A few months after this, his father arranged for him to work in Hong Kong for a multinational. Apart from his Oxford and the Bullingdon Club, he managed to get a job at Conservative Central Office following a telephone call from Buck House. When that came to an end a few years later, his girlfriend’s mother, Annabel Astor, suggested to the chairman of Carlton Television, Michael Green, that he should hire him. Which he duly did. So elevated and far from the world of us plebs is Cameron, that he described his wife’s education as ‘highly unconventional’ because she went to a day school.

Other Tory colleagues have stated that he’s an unrepentant social elitist. One of his old schoolmates is supposed to have said ‘I think there’s something very unconservative about believing that because of who you are, you are the right person to run the country. It’s the natural establishment which believes in power for power’s sake, the return of people who think they have a right to rule.’

Another Old Etonian described Cameron as ‘a strange product of my generation … He seems to represent a continuation of, or perhaps regression to, noblesse oblige Toryism. Do we really want to be ruled by Arthurian knights again?’

And naturally, Cameron has surrounded himself with ministers from the same elevated social class. 23 out of 29 of his first cabinet ministers were millionaires. 59 per cent of them went to a private school, and only 3 per cent actually went to a comprehensive.

Even Boris Johnson’s sister, who edited the Lady, is fed up of the very narrow class basis of his cabinet. She told Jones before the 2010 General Election about probably composition of his administration: ‘the prospect is Old Etonians bankrolled by stockbrokers … It’s back to the days of Macmillan and Eden.’

So this a government of toffs, led by an extremely rich toff, even by toff standards, who believes he has an automatic right to rule, simply because he is a toff. And his fellow toff, Gideon, sorry, George Osborne, will next week, according to the I, launch a ‘worker’s budget’. The whole idea is a joke. Unfortunately, as the 38,000 people or so, who may have died under Cameron’s welfare reforms, it’s a killer. And that ain’t no laughing matter.