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Mootoo
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05 May 2012, 1:54 pm

Not exactly subtle, is it? Osbourne, Cameron and Boris Johnson were all in school together, and I'm sure I could be missing some others...



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05 May 2012, 2:25 pm

You get this sort of slimy behaviour in all major political parties, presumably in all democratic countries (and of course the nepotism tends to be even worse in the non-democratic countries). I'm sure that you could find similar things in Labour and the Lib-Dems. If not then there'd be some other sort of scandal.



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05 May 2012, 2:35 pm

Conservatives engaging in nepotism? This is completely without precedent


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05 May 2012, 2:59 pm

Vigilans wrote:
Conservatives engaging in nepotism? This is completely without precedent


I am shocked! Shocked!



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05 May 2012, 8:31 pm

This is typical behaviour of politicians, regardless of country.



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05 May 2012, 9:12 pm

Mootoo wrote:
Not exactly subtle, is it? Osbourne, Cameron and Boris Johnson were all in school together, and I'm sure I could be missing some others...


No all three of them were at different colleges in Oxford, Tho both Cameron and the Yank (he was born is New York) Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson did go to Eton. The only connection all three have is the Bullingdon Club.


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05 May 2012, 10:08 pm

CSBurks wrote:
This is typical behaviour of politicians, regardless of country.


Yupp it is very typical behaviour of nay politician regardless of the country they live in.