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RSSOxford Conservatives kept on a "tight leash"
The latest on the Tory boy students.
By Mehdi Hasan Published 22 April 2010 11:47
I've blogged before about the freaks and loons who populate Oxford University's Conservative Association.
Here's the latest on their antics from the Belfast Telegraph:
Caveat of the day
Oxford University Tories are being kept on a tight leash. The Conservative Association has told its members not to put the "vote for change" slogan over pictures of them in black ties drinking port on Facebook in case it sends out the wrong message to voters.
Given George Osborne's new makeover as "Lord Snooty" on the BBC's Chancellors' debate yesterday, shouldn't the Conservative high command be more worried about Tory boys closer to home?
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Mehdi Hasan is a contributing writer for the New Statesman and the co-author of Ed: The Milibands and the Making of a Labour Leader. He was the New Statesman's senior editor (politics) from 2009-12.
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Bloody marvellous! the Great English Gentleman David Cameron won Thursday's leader's debate, it was like bring back fox hunting with a group of dogs.
Hong Kong!, the desperate Gordon Brown was trying to frighten the 'yellow belly voters' to vote for Labour. Yellow bellies get voting! Gordon Brown's little joke: "Them two remind me of my two children fighting over bathtime." He also knew the different between a woman and a man.!
Bang on! Nick Clegg done the leg work again but no one really understands what he stands for. One has to question himself whether he understands what he stands for?
Just because someone actively supports the Conservative Party and attends Oxford University does not make them any more of a freak or loon than anyone else.
Journalists like yourself are the first to talk about the various prejudices in society, religion and culture yet they always spout their own.
--Staggering hypocrisy--
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