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

[crystal123]

The Daily Mirror today printed a great photo of Cameron , when he was young and handsome. I can't understand the Mirror, why print a photo of him, at his best. This paper is meant to be putting people off voting for him, not encouraging them! Tory ladies please supply link to front page as I can't.

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

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?

Absofcroissant. My dh went to public school, his parents worked very hard to send him there. I went to bog standard comp, I really wish my parents could have afforded to give me a public school education. Both dh and me now work hard to send our children to public school, because I remember my own childhood in shite state schools.

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.

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.

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).

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

I can feel civil unrest coming, if Labour stays in power! Oh I forgot Labour brought in a law that says you can't demonstrate within 500 yards of Downing street.(no civil unrest around there then). Labour most undemocratic bunch ever, under Labour we live in an elected dictatorship.

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.

Sally if 'they are just people' why are so many of them in positions of power? Privilege or coincidence? Or are they just better than the rest of us?

What about the (undemocratic) House of Lords? Are they just people too?

Crystal123 - not quite an elected dictatorship. I don't remember anyone electing Gordon Brown. Didn't he get his job by having a posh dinner with a colleague?

Aah but you see those are the rules under the current system. One leader steps down another leader is voted in by his party.

If you are unhappy about that it won't change under the Tories.

Beachcomber - MPs are in power because they have been elected by their constituents. They are all just people. You have no idea what motivates individuals you don't know. If people put themselves forward they stand a chance. The PM is not a public school boy. Thatcher wasn't public school. The next PM MIGHT be. Luckily we don't discriminate against people because of their background and I wouldn't want to live in a society that thought that was OK.

Sallyjayforce. Quite right, he's never been elected, and he's not going to be elected this time, but do you know, I feel quite sorry for him, I believe he is a conviction politician, it's a shame that he has so many unpleasant PC idiots around him, on his own he's probably not half bad.

I'm voting for this guy because he is just sooooo dreamy. Swoon.

BTW do all boys have an oil painting made of them when they leave Eton? I'm quite impressed.

The electorate of Kirkcaldy voted in Gordon Brown. Just as the electorate of Finchley voted in Margaret Thatcher. The population doesn't get a say in party leadership.

You probably use phrases like 'toffs' to lump a load of the population together? I thought so.

who, me?

"Luckily we don't discriminate against people because of their background"

Of course we do Sally, just as we discriminate against people because of their age, sex, race, religion, appearance, dress size, sexuality, need I go on.

A utopia where discrimination didn't happen would be wonderful, under it the chances are nobody in the UK would have heard of David Cameron or George Osbourne because being white male able bodied and hugely privileged wouldn't be a factor in gaining power.

I feel sorry for GB too and I think he has a lot more integrity than Blair and most of the rest. He seems more authentic than any of the corporate managers who populate most of the Commons. It's not GB that annoys me, it's the tang of self-righteous sour grapes from a certain type of left-wing snob.

PS I used to be a cleaner in Kirkcaldy. It needed one.

I have been known to use the expression "toff". I think, in relation to the Bullingdon Club it is appropriate. I'd argue that they are not a load of the population however - merely a small hanful. Which is what bothers people when they are so over-represented in the corridors of power.

Sorry - no Habbibu - Beachcomber I meant.

So you are just maintaining the tradition of negative discrimination Beachcomber. Marvellously progressive.

I'm going to wash nits out of DD's hair so not ignoring if you respond.

Nope I use toffs to describe a particular group of white male able bodied privileged people who have the sort of sense of entitlement that can only come from living in a society where you are pushed to the front of the queue regardless of whether you deserve to be there or not.

If I had the slightest inkling that Cameron is where he is purely because he is brilliant, talented and capable I wouldn't care that he is posh. (am a bit posh myself actually)

Off to put my children to bed so not ignoring you either .