Breaking the Bullingdon Club Omertà: Secret Lives of the Men Who Run Britain
Although the Labour party accused David Cameron of being a member of the Bullingdon Club, the “Bullers” are far from a secret society. (1) the Hon. Edward Sebastian Grigg, the heir to Baron Altrincham of Tormarton and current chairman of Credit Suisse (UK) (2) David Cameron (3) Ralph Perry Robinson, a former child actor, designer, furniture-maker (4) Ewen Fergusson, son of the British ambassador to France, Sir Ewen Fergusson and now at City law firm Herbert Smith (5) Matthew Benson, the heir to the Earldom of Wemyss and March (6) Sebastian James, the son of Lord Northbourne, a major landowner in Kent (7) Jonathan Ford, the-then president of the club, a banker with Morgan Grenfell (8) Boris Johnson, the-then president of the Oxford Union, now Lord Mayor of London 9) Harry Eastwood, the investment fund consultant
“Cameron would later deny being there that night. He was ambushed by a BBC interviewer who drew uncomfortable parallels between his old club and the actions of disaffected young people during the London riots, for whom Cameron was demanding tough justice. He claimed he had gone to bed early that night, which two sources there on the day claim was “rubbish. … Andrew Gimson, Johnsons’ biographer, told me, “The Bullingdon boys wanted to take greater risks. They thought of themselves as elite, proud of its money and its connections.”
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Is this where America is headed as we become moe and more a society dominated by class privileged?