OLD ETONIANS

[flipnflap]

Aside from David Cameron, which of today's top politicians are Old Etonians?

[Ankou]

"Overall, 37 per cent of MPs from the three main parties elected in 2010 were privately-schooled"

this included 20 old etonians with 19 of them tory and one lib dem

[LochNessMonster]

John Prescott ?


Lol !

[Zhukov]

Don"t know how I can put-up a link to the story,which went largely unnoticed by the Press.But Private Eye noticed the appointments of several Old Etonians to leading Editorial positions at various big Newspapers,around the time David Cameron became P.M....They"re all in it together!.. ..maybe they"ll be out to bamboozle the populace,and spin a shine on Camerons Cuck-ups!?

[4candles]

Those in government listed here -

http://blogs.channel4...ill-run-britain/14474

[rowanwitch]

One thing I can add from experience I have met a few old etonians and some of the Harrow mob as well and almost without exception they were all polite, considerate and charming. I say almost because a couple were bankers and had cast consideration to the winds of finance.

[Khandro]

Rising star; Jesse Norman, MP for Hereford.

[Zhukov]

http://blogs.channel4...ill-run-britain/14474

[McMouse]

Eton is a good school and provides a good education. It's the 'class warriors' who scream abuse because someone is an old Etonian.

[emmie]

didn't blair have a good education, as well as brown and sundry others, class envy again, when will people get over this nonsense. If you could afford to send your child to a fee paying school where they will get a first class education. Until we have a better all round educational system, where you don't need schools like Eton, Harrow, let's not berate people for doing so.

[Euphemia]

Tony Blair attended the elite Fettes College in Edinburgh

[emmie]

yes he did, and don't see anyone say the same about him, time we put class out to grass.

[FredPuli43]

Not essential. Churchill went to Harrow !
What is disturbing is not that this Old Etonian holds high office, nor that men who went to good public schools do (e.g.the Deputy Prime Minister was at Westminster School), but that so many of his cabinet went to the same public school. On what basis were they chosen by him? It looks more than a coincidence and smacks of a certain narrowness of mind, a thinking that a fellow Etonian is the best man simply because of that fact
In itself, that people who have had the best education end up in top jobs to a disproportionate degree, is rather more of an indictment of the state schools of their time than of anything else. That's not to ignore that public schools are affordable by the rich, not the ordinary, families, that money helps in many careers and that the rich parents are well-connected and their children have a better chance of advancement by use of those connections, perhaps made or ensured by their children being at the same public schools.

[Khandro]

Yes Fred, it's always better to be rich - we should choose our parents with care! Communism tried to make everyone equal, and what a fiasco that turned out to be.

[FredPuli43]

Indeed, Khandro, and Ed Milliband (educated at a comprehensive school) is better placed than most in assessing communism. His father was Ralph Milliband, a Marxist.

[craft1948]

William Hague is a grammar school lad................

[craft1948]

Something like this was discussed on HIGNFY when it was chaired by Damian Lewis, another old Etonian.

[Zhukov]

These OLD ETONIANS,coming over her,taking our jobs....!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmIvu1yg3bU