*LADIES* Gorgeous photo of Cameron, front cover Daily Mirror.

I thought that he looked like a right old tw*t that he is. Not my cup of tea. My men need to have (metaphorically as well) balls.

'people like that'. 'ordinary people'. There are just people.

Gordon Brown campaigned against apartheid and for better wages for low paid cleaners when he was at University.

What did this Cameron twit do? Join the toffs fuck off the poor club with the chums he now wants to run the country with.

All this talk of yeah but that was ages ago seems to gloss over (in true Tory style) the fact that he is still hanging out with the same people. Hang out with them - fine, run the country with them (whilst censoring photos of you hanging out with them) - undemocratic.

This just highlights all that is old fashioned outdated and practically feudal about Britain's ridiculous parliamentary system.

The toffs are going to be laughing their way to number 10 at having pulled off this one. Just watch them amend the current system to their own advantage.

I despair at the British population who is probably going to throw away a chance at a more democratic system in favour of yet more old school tie. (and no I don't support the Libdems).

It makes me sick to my stomach that we could have people like that in charge of our country tomorrow. Good on the Mirror how dare they try and stop ordinary people from seeing their true colours. Feeling really angry .This in contrast to all Gordons earnest political causes when he was a student. I can feel civil unrest coming on if the Tories get in.

Cameron is from a privileged background and is trying to do something hugely positive (he might not be right but he could just arse about taking drugs and spending daddy's money like some public school kids I know). Get over it.

I went to state primary and then won half scholarship to private. For the rest we had no car, no holidays, no TV. We weren't rich - when Dad was unemployed the school met my fees for two years. DH went to public school and then to state comp. Fortunes change

All you reveal is your own snobbery.

VINTAGE - I have seen Boris many times, trying to get on the tube, in the queue at the bus stop, on his bike, with his kids at the park. Reality isn't it? This was years before he was mayor. I know loads of people who joined ridiculous clubs and did stupid things at uni. That was a long time ago. People move on. Don't you?

Seen it-brought it-got the photo!

Excellent article.

At least I know where I've been going wrong with my CV all these years

that pic was in the tv programme when Dave met Boris or something. The programme just showed what sort of world they live/d in 1000s of miles away from most peoples reality

AbsofCroissant are you saying if you had useful connections you would withold them from your children? My parents didn't have any but if I have any I'm not hiding them. I went to a school where a lot of parents with interesting connections offered them to other kids for work experience and in some cases for work after school. I can't see a problem with that. After all, can't we all get to Kevin Bacon in 6 degrees?

Crystal Blair isn't running though is he?

We've got Eton Boy Who Can't/Won't Answer Questions against Dour Scot Who Saved The Economy (and would like to be given a chance to continue doing so).

Kicks self off thread and opens wine (I'm in France, it's later here!).

Yes, but Blair didn't get his first job through family friends, he didn't advance through his whole life because of his position. I am by NO stretch of the imagination a fan of Tony Blair, but I am less of a fan of Cameron.

What this kind of snobbery and preservation of wealth and status for a select few does, is destroy a country. It discourages innovation, hard work, talent. Someone should NOT be able to become a politician or leading lawyer or publicist or doctor because their parents could afford an expensive school, to send them to a top university and fund exclusive clubs, or because parents/friends have the right connections. People should get those roles and jobs because they are talented, hardworking, and the best people for them.

What I chose to do as a late teen is exactly what I'd choose to do now too.

You should have seen what I used to wear.

Op - there is no such thing as a good picture of David Cameron. He is puck ugly.

I can only hope and pray that I won't have to see his foulness every day from now on. I've come across decomposed bodies that are less offensive than him.

Isn't Brown one of only 5 British Prime Ministers who didn't go to Oxford or Cambridge?

I guess that pesky democracy does manage to get in the way of privilege sometimes.

Except that is not what it is about. It is about exclusivity, privilege, democracy, elitism and um censorship. Bit more grown up than teenage looks.

Ah yes, I always base my choices for the leader of a country based on how they looked as a late teen

Yep, he's the fella to sort out the massive cuts needed in public spending. A true man of the people. Makes me want to vomit.

(Photo is blurred on the Guardian website due to this photo being censored).

Quite like this comment too;

"Freedom of Information, Freedom of Speech and not hiding the truth are reasons enough to publish the Bullingdon photos. Highlighting the Eton background is also particularly relevant at this election. We are faced with a choice between electoral reform or the Conservatives. More Prime-ministers have come from Eton than anywhere else and to me that highlights how far we are from a properly democratic country and how much we are a country that is ruled by the same old rich, establishment "elite" year in, year out. So publishing the Eton/Bullingdon photo is absolutely spot on in highlighting the choice we have today - between the continued rule of the privileged or a long overdue change to a democracy."