It is a badly kept secret that David Dimbleby was in the Bullingdon Club and he has finally spoken about it, telling the Radio Times that he ‘loved being elected’ to the notorious Oxford dining society and that he is ‘very proud of the uniform’ that he still fits into. Refreshing honesty, especially after years of hearing politicians profess their deep shame at their involvement. Dimbleby goes on:
‘We never did these disgusting disgraceful things that Boris did. We never broke windows or got wildly drunk. It was a completely different organisation from what it became when Boris Johnson, David Cameron, and George Osborne joined, who seemed to be ashamed of it, pulling their photographs and so on.’
Boris would later describe the club as ‘a truly shameful vignette of almost superhuman undergraduate arrogance, toffishness and twittishness,’ but it was Evelyn Waugh who found the most beautiful words to to describe the club in Decline and Fall.
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