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Shocking movie clearly based on uk Government.

posted 10 years ago by Birminghamukengland
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This was so uncomfortable to watch.
The really frightening thing is, these psychopaths are currently ruling our country.

[–] E_nineteen 10 years ago

Was the Bullingdon Club ever accused of assault? It might be the case, I don't know. I wouldn't get too excited, though, it's fiction and it's intended to make a point through exaggeration, more about how money and the oppressive class system can treat individuals so unequally (and give them the feeling that they can continue to uphold this inequality through their own actions), rather than saying 'look! It's a film about Cameron, Boris Johnson and co when they were young!'

I'm not a Tory, I should add, don't get me wrong there.

[–] Birminghamukengland 10 years ago

Yes but that's the point. We would never know if they were accused of anything as they have the money and power to buy their way out. Look at what's happening now with Edward Heath et al. Although this movie was meant to be entertaining, which it was, I believe things like this actually happen both now and in the past.

[–] raf-33 9 years ago

Well it's not as if they are asking anyone to shove their whelk in to the mouth of a dead pig now is it?

Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived. -Isaac Asimov

[–] SheLeppie 9 years ago

Seems to be the same in the US with the Skull and Bones club. There's a movie of that too.

I simply am not there...

[–] Unicorn-9 9 years ago

If you think Labour politicians are any different, you're incredibly naive.

And the aspiring Tory politicians I met at Oxford were much nicer people than the aspiring Labourites. The Lefties would have been the ones looking down on a pub landlord for caring about something as unimportant as money, then beating him up for being a member of the vile bourgeoisie.

[–] HarveyManfredSinJohn 9 years ago

Many of our neo-liberal politicians, Labour and Tory, are indeed snobs who despise ordinary people but speaking from experience none of the many Labour politicians I know would ever beat up a member of the 'vile bourgeoisie', and for you to suggest that is characteristic of Labour politicians is a blatant lie. Admittedly, most of the Tory politicians I know are actually relatively decent people too, irrespective of the fact that they and I have a different world view.

But the Labour and Tory politicians I know are relatively down-to-earth people and backbenchers with little power beyond their own constituency. Most of them are from ordinary backgrounds and even the ones who attended private schools, attended local private schools and aren't thus completely out-of-touch with the community they represent.

However, I have never met a member of the Bullington Club. From what I've read, in all media not just the very few lefty/liberal sources that exist (bear in mind that the vast majority of our media, including the Mail, Sun, Times, Express, Telegraph, Evening Standard, and even now The Independent is right-wing, and only The Guardian and The Mirror are remotely left-of-centre) the members of this club had a reputation for smashing up pubs and clubs and then getting their parents to pay for the damages...What a charming lot, eh?