With David Davis gone, this is an opportune time to reacquaint ourselves with the top Tories in Britain today. Here they are in all of their glory:
David Cameron- Conservative Party Leader: educated at Magdalene College, Oxford.
Boris Johnson- Mayor of London: educated at Magdalene College, Oxford.
William Hague- Shadow Foreign Secretary: educated at Magdalene College, Oxford.
George Osborne- Shadow Chancellor: educated at Magdalene College, Oxford.
Dominic Grieve- Shadow Home Secretary: educated at Magdalene College, Oxford.
It's not what you know, it's who you know. Of the 28 members of the Shadow Cabinet 13 went to Oxford (5 at Magdalene) and a further 6 went to Cambridge.
Is this important? I think so. I think it paints a very clear picture that the Old Boy's Network remains firmly in place in the Tory party. They talk about reaching out to the aspirational, they position themselves to appeal to the occupiers of the centre-ground, they patronise the working classes with talk of social mobility. But they remain very much the party of the few and for the few.
They are besting the sitting Government in arguments over the NHS, over child poverty, the abolition of the 10p Tax Rate, fuel prices, heating prices, food prices and other issues that worst-off members of society. It is a triumph for spin, for the power of the Sun and the Mail to affect the opinions of the majority and it is a testament to the betrayal of the Labour Party's core voters that the New Labour project continues to be.
The Labour Party should be the party of the many. If they aren't, who will speak for us? Who will care what happens to the people of Liverpool or Newcastle or Hull or Hackney if not their chosen representatives in the supposedly left-wing party. Let's be frank, it won't be the boys from Magdalene College, Oxford will it?
