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	<title>Comments on: The irrelevance of toff-bashing</title>
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		<title>By: St Trinians</title>
		<link>http://blog.prospectblogs.com/2008/05/14/the-irrelevance-of-toff-bashing/#comment-4567</link>
		<dc:creator>St Trinians</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2008 12:23:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>An enjoyable Bank Holiday comment from Andrew Gimson :

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/conservative/2017851/David-Cameron-fails-to-hail-Prime-Minister-Gordon-Brown%2C-the-architect-of-his-triumph.html</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>An enjoyable Bank Holiday comment from Andrew Gimson :</p>
<p><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/conservative/2017851/David-Cameron-fails-to-hail-Prime-Minister-Gordon-Brown%2C-the-architect-of-his-triumph.html" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/comment/www.telegraph.co.uk');" rel="nofollow">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/conservative/2017851/David-Cameron-fails-to-hail-Prime-Minister-Gordon-Brown%2C-the-architect-of-his-triumph.html</a></p>
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		<title>By: Ristard</title>
		<link>http://blog.prospectblogs.com/2008/05/14/the-irrelevance-of-toff-bashing/#comment-4561</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 21:19:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Dear Sir -

Toff bashing like bear baiting in medieval Europe is a popular sport and one that always wins plenty of public support. It is a little like professor-bashing or bishop-bashing as per the public revulsion toward the Archbishop of Canterbury after his sharia law lecture this last year.

Still one cannot help feel that more of this will occur not because there is something enjoyable about such bashing, but because the common sense of the public sensibility demands it. Sharia law is a monist system of law that brooks no pluralism or even a classical gelasian dualism between temporal and spiritual, and the goodly archbishop Rowan Atkinson did not see this point. Only his system of old-fashioned secular achristian liberalism permits the pluralism he espouses, though, despite the inherent logical failure of his system, it is a pluralism that is open to everything, even its own demise. Sharia law does not tolerate ethnicity or dualism - it is always a technical theocracy run by fighting imams.

So it seems to be a suicidal count-down for the Mr Bean of recent archbishops - is this another reason for the popular enjoyment of toff-bashing?

R</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dear Sir -</p>
<p>Toff bashing like bear baiting in medieval Europe is a popular sport and one that always wins plenty of public support. It is a little like professor-bashing or bishop-bashing as per the public revulsion toward the Archbishop of Canterbury after his sharia law lecture this last year.</p>
<p>Still one cannot help feel that more of this will occur not because there is something enjoyable about such bashing, but because the common sense of the public sensibility demands it. Sharia law is a monist system of law that brooks no pluralism or even a classical gelasian dualism between temporal and spiritual, and the goodly archbishop Rowan Atkinson did not see this point. Only his system of old-fashioned secular achristian liberalism permits the pluralism he espouses, though, despite the inherent logical failure of his system, it is a pluralism that is open to everything, even its own demise. Sharia law does not tolerate ethnicity or dualism - it is always a technical theocracy run by fighting imams.</p>
<p>So it seems to be a suicidal count-down for the Mr Bean of recent archbishops - is this another reason for the popular enjoyment of toff-bashing?</p>
<p>R</p>
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		<title>By: St Trinians</title>
		<link>http://blog.prospectblogs.com/2008/05/14/the-irrelevance-of-toff-bashing/#comment-4559</link>
		<dc:creator>St Trinians</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 10:50:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Paxman has pointed out that in fact the Tory candidate for Crewe is not what the Labour candidate calls a ' toff ' ; because he is not in the book  ( Burke's / Debrette's ) , while she , apparently, is 

Anyway, it was Kevin Costner who told us ( as Robin Hood ) : 

" Nobility is not defined by ones birth , but by ones actions " 

Any half-sentient Exchange &#38; Mart reader can spot a bargain when they see one. An intelligent candidate who has grasped the privilege of a first-rate education ( cobblers son who got the Lobbs ) is easily the better man to represent his constituents than an anachronistic, clueless, class warrior 

( Would it be prudent to ask why , if the previous MP for Crewe was as brilliant as advertised, that after 10 years of unprecedented levels of public spending by Labour, large areas of Crewe remain so unattractively dingy ? ) 

Thanks to Labour's class warfare, the current entrance exams for Eton ( let alone fees ) would be off the scale for almost every elementary school pupil. That these men are prepared to enter public service ( what gems they could mint instead from a career in the city )is testimony to their integrity and credibility for the job. 

Recipients of a world-class education are obviously better trained to think, and therefore less likely to accept the left wing's relentless dumbing down of Britain, in order that the nanny State has and retains total control. 

In stark contrast, many  Labour MPs ( obviously, Frank Field apart ) seem incapable of thinking anything through -  as demonstrated by the results of the human embryo bill. Despite steadily sinking in the quicksand of their lowest ever polls , but desperate to appease their Guardian readership , yesterday Labour sent another telegram out to the electorate re-iterating how woefully little they care about families ; and the very weakest,vulnerable members of society 

24 week old babies still to be chopped up and dragged from the womb ( what excuse for not simply providing cost-beneficial free contraception for all ? ). Deliberately " removing the father from the family unit, and all that a father can bring to the family unit " by offering mind-bogglingly selfish single women fertility treatment ( on the state ) without any mention of a father's role

Not even a print-out of stats listing the low-achievement, self-destructive, delinquent behaviour rates among the under-valued children of single-parent households ; and their unfortunate friends, relatives, and teachers and the rest of society tearing out their hair while having to pick up the slack 

Britain has suffered enough of Labour - the world has had enough of Labour. Perhaps the classless Mrs Blair been signed up as the Tories secret weapon ? She says her book was not written for the money ; when then can we know which charity will get the proceeds ? Who can forget the news camera footage of her singing the Beatles song " will you still need me when I'm sixty-four ? " on the very night she heard of WMD expert Dr Kelly's suicide , leaving a 64 yr old widow ?

London had enough of labour - albeit, Boris Johnson was a scholar at Eton - a double whammy in the bargain of the century stakes . Let's hope the good folk of Crewe have the savvy to oust Labour and their BNP-friendly campaign literature while they can</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Paxman has pointed out that in fact the Tory candidate for Crewe is not what the Labour candidate calls a &#8216; toff &#8216; ; because he is not in the book  ( Burke&#8217;s / Debrette&#8217;s ) , while she , apparently, is </p>
<p>Anyway, it was Kevin Costner who told us ( as Robin Hood ) : </p>
<p>&#8221; Nobility is not defined by ones birth , but by ones actions &#8221; </p>
<p>Any half-sentient Exchange &amp; Mart reader can spot a bargain when they see one. An intelligent candidate who has grasped the privilege of a first-rate education ( cobblers son who got the Lobbs ) is easily the better man to represent his constituents than an anachronistic, clueless, class warrior </p>
<p>( Would it be prudent to ask why , if the previous MP for Crewe was as brilliant as advertised, that after 10 years of unprecedented levels of public spending by Labour, large areas of Crewe remain so unattractively dingy ? ) </p>
<p>Thanks to Labour&#8217;s class warfare, the current entrance exams for Eton ( let alone fees ) would be off the scale for almost every elementary school pupil. That these men are prepared to enter public service ( what gems they could mint instead from a career in the city )is testimony to their integrity and credibility for the job. </p>
<p>Recipients of a world-class education are obviously better trained to think, and therefore less likely to accept the left wing&#8217;s relentless dumbing down of Britain, in order that the nanny State has and retains total control. </p>
<p>In stark contrast, many  Labour MPs ( obviously, Frank Field apart ) seem incapable of thinking anything through -  as demonstrated by the results of the human embryo bill. Despite steadily sinking in the quicksand of their lowest ever polls , but desperate to appease their Guardian readership , yesterday Labour sent another telegram out to the electorate re-iterating how woefully little they care about families ; and the very weakest,vulnerable members of society </p>
<p>24 week old babies still to be chopped up and dragged from the womb ( what excuse for not simply providing cost-beneficial free contraception for all ? ). Deliberately &#8221; removing the father from the family unit, and all that a father can bring to the family unit &#8221; by offering mind-bogglingly selfish single women fertility treatment ( on the state ) without any mention of a father&#8217;s role</p>
<p>Not even a print-out of stats listing the low-achievement, self-destructive, delinquent behaviour rates among the under-valued children of single-parent households ; and their unfortunate friends, relatives, and teachers and the rest of society tearing out their hair while having to pick up the slack </p>
<p>Britain has suffered enough of Labour - the world has had enough of Labour. Perhaps the classless Mrs Blair been signed up as the Tories secret weapon ? She says her book was not written for the money ; when then can we know which charity will get the proceeds ? Who can forget the news camera footage of her singing the Beatles song &#8221; will you still need me when I&#8217;m sixty-four ? &#8221; on the very night she heard of WMD expert Dr Kelly&#8217;s suicide , leaving a 64 yr old widow ?</p>
<p>London had enough of labour - albeit, Boris Johnson was a scholar at Eton - a double whammy in the bargain of the century stakes . Let&#8217;s hope the good folk of Crewe have the savvy to oust Labour and their BNP-friendly campaign literature while they can</p>
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