David Cameron and the madness of the English ruling class
- By Heiko Khoo
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British Prime Minister David Cameron [Xinhua photo] |
The English ruling class are famed for their traditions, their eloquence and their panache.
So what to make of a biography of Prime Minister David Cameron by Lord Ashcroft, a friend and former treasurer and deputy chairman of his ruling Conservative Party, claiming Cameron took part in an initiation ceremony for an elite Oxford University club that involved inserting his penis into the mouth of a dead pig.
It's hard to imagine any scenario where people from now on will not start sniggering whenever they meet Cameron or see him on television. Can the ruling class survive the stigma? Cameron is not helped by the fact that he personally intervened to secure a £45 million deal in 2013 to sell pig semen to China.
Bizarrely, there was a TV series called "Black Mirror," written by Charlie Brooker, which examined a number of very strange futuristic scenarios. The episode, called "the National Anthem" and first aired in 2011, has a British Prime Minister, under the pressure of public opinion, forced to have sex with a pig on live TV in order to secure the release of a kidnapped princess.
However, in the film there is a noble reason for the prime minister's actions and the viewer feels his sense of disgust at what he is forced to do. But the allegations about David Cameron contain no element of a "higher good."
Instead it is about entering an exclusive club whose bestial initiation ceremonies are supposed to bind members together in their depravity and vows of secrecy.
The British ruling class have long held an esteemed position within global elite circles and still present themselves as cultivated, educated players on the world stage.
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