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COMING FOR CLAN CAMPBELL

Clan Campbell

Investors have lost millions ‘investing’ in Rory Campbell’s football betting syndicate. They now intend to call in the police.

His father, Alastair, presumably assisted his son in getting up to Oxford.

Campbell Junior boasted that he spent the majority of his degree time playing poker, watching football and betting on football: what a waste of time and a place.

It could have been better used by someone serious with a desire to benefit society rather than a feckless Labour aristocrat.

Campbell Senior worked for Bob Maxwell and was one of his most loyal defenders.

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9 responses to “COMING FOR CLAN CAMPBELL”

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    Don’t be so hard on Campbell Junior.

    So many of those who go to Oxford are feckless. Just look at Boris Johnson, a right Hooray Henry, who proved his libertarian, right wing, credentials by admitting that he took cocaine whilst he was there. High jinks and high living is a right of passage for these well off young men, who expect a first and get an upper second.

    Boisterous fun, boozing, gambling, too much shagging and even drug taking is not just the exclusive preserve of those with left a leaning parent. If these public school Oxford hopefuls lived on a Council estate in Peckham, instead of around the manicured quadrangles of Oxford, their conduct would be called out in an entirely different way and they would be facing a different type of college, HMP Belmarsh or some other such place, for which no A level passes are required.

    Remember, Oxford turned down Laura Spence, a state school Geordie with outstanding qualifications, who applied to read medicine but it takes Johnson, Rees Mogg and Campbell Junior.

    One hears less of these type of high living, disreputable, scandals from the great and the good who went to Cambridge. Whatever happened to the stuff of Cambridge spies.

    Please tell us how Campbell is a Labour Aristo?

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  2. The Dame Avatar
    The Dame

    In the context of young Rory he belongs to a rarefied stratum of the Labour Party elite: in other words, a form of aristocracy. It is also quite nepotistic. The Benns and Kinnocks are LP aristos

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  3. Lady Muck of Golborne. Avatar
    Lady Muck of Golborne.

    Tony Benn became Viscount Stansgate on the death of his father – a hereditary peerage.

    The Kinnocks were elevated to the peerage after they retired from being elected members of the Westminster or European Parliaments. They were, nonetheless, elevated to the peerage in the usual way- in exactly the same way that the Dame might one day be elevated to the peerage after approval by the powers that be.

    I do not have a copy of Debretts. I am sure that the Dame receives this directory every year so perhaps, she will tell all good Hornets full details of the boy Rory’s peerage.

    How did Rory get elevated to the peerage

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    1. The Dame Avatar
      The Dame

      It is in a manner of speaking. You may be ‘aristocratic’ yet be untitled

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      1. The Debretts' Registrar. Avatar
        The Debretts’ Registrar.

        I see.

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    2. The Dame Avatar
      The Dame

      Hamish Falconer, the Foreign Office minister and son of Labour peer Lord Falconer, appeared to criticise Tzipi Hotovely, Israel’s chief diplomat in London, while taking questions on Gaza in the House of Commons.
      Another ‘aristo’!

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      1. Good on Hamish Falconer Avatar
        Good on Hamish Falconer

        Tzipi Hotovelly, Israel’s Ambassador, is very dogmatic and far too self assertive. I am not sure that she does Israel any favours with her aggressive and authoritarian demeanour. Her predecessor, Mark Reger, was more considered in his observations on the troubles. Being dogmatic, banging the Netanyahu drum, is not the way for Israel to win people over and influence others in diplomatic discourse.

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  4. Liz Lucy Avatar
    Liz Lucy

    Politicians suck

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    1. Juicy Lucy Avatar
      Juicy Lucy

      They do.

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