Yes, they’re very representative of Britain today. Half went to Oxford or Cambridge, eight went to university. Six grew up in London or the Home Counties. Four of the eight PPCs are standing for London seats and the other four are standing in the southern half of England. They are the Tatler Ten.

Tatler (via ES via Iain Dale) has profiled ten potential future Tory cabinet members. My word, what a progessive bunch they make! Five women and five men, two obviously non-whites, all young and gorgeous. The Standard does a write up. I wonder if this - a non-article based on a magazine covering the social trends of the upper classes - will be just too much of a puff piece for the Tories. There are some choice phrases: “the women wriggled into dresses by the likes of Yves Saint Laurent and Giambattista Valli” jumped out at me as did, of Kulveer Ranger, “Headhunted by the Mayor after virtually inventing the Oyster card as a management consultant”. The Tory Troll picked up on that one as well.

I don’t want to demean any of the ten. I’ve met one of them, Jeremy Brier, a few times on the university debating circuit. He struck me as very personable and is without doubt intelligent and a great debater; he was kind enough, on more than one occasion, to give me advice on improving my debating.

Tatler is, I am given to understand, about the upper classes and for the upper classes. That Tatler runs an article like this suggests to me that it considers ‘Cameron’s Conservatives’ to be a la mode; that the Tories at least do not object to the association with Tatler; and that the upper classes will be increasingly supportive, including financially, of the Conservatives at the moment.

I also wonder if this has been endorsed by CCO. As the Tatler Ten rise up the ziggurat and reach the Cabinet, they might live to regret this piece. They may become emblematic of ‘Cameron’s Conservatives’ and, while they don’t all come from that strain, they are not, I think, that far removed from the Notting Hill Set.

Anyway, meet your new overlords. Sorry, cabinet.

Home Secretary - Shaun Bailey
Trade and industry Secretary - Mark Clarke (not BERR?)
Housing – Joanne Cash
Defence – Annuziata Rees-Mogg
Environment – Peter Lyburn
Education – Charlotte Leslie
Chancellor – Jeremy Brier
Foreign – Nicola Blackwood
Health – Helen Whately
Transport – Kulveer Ranger

xD.

Posted on Tuesday, September 9th, 2008 at 11:47 pm
Categories: Media, Politicae Britannicae, Politics, Tories.
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