http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01l9zfm/Wonderland_Series_5_Young_Bright_and_on_the_Right/
''The story of two boys with a dream to scale the heights of Oxbridge university politics, the fabled nursery slopes for Westminster.
Both Chris Monk, 19 and Joe Cooke, 21, are passionate about politics and have been Conservatives from a tender age. Now they face an academic term that could make or break their future political careers. Despite the three-piece suits and plummy vowels, both are state-school educated and see themselves as outsiders in the Oxbridge social and political scene.
When Joe tries to effect change and bring about reform in the society, he comes head-to-head with 88 years of tradition. Will he eventually turn his back on a life in politics? And will Chris have the knowhow to impress the members of the political elite he aspires to?''
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Interesting watch though not much depth to it. Young fogeyism very much in evidence. Cambridge chap obsessing about port and 'sourcing the biscuits' for their conservatives meetings.
Oxford chap eventually confessed how he was mocked for having a Yorkshire accent and how he was the only male in his family who not gone to prison. Pocket handkerchiefs and long umbrellas feature along with boaters,striped blazers and cigars on boat race day.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/universityeducation/8870909/Oxford-Tories-nights-of-port-and-Nazi-songs.html
What is it with these young Tory thugs and Nazism? I suppose the fetishism of something abhorrent breeds into them the seeds of future kinky sex scandals.
Then there's darling Mensch, couldn't get on the telly or the papers enough, served her constituency for a full two years and now is buggering off to the States. That level of service and sense of duty is to be commended.
I watched that and felt quite indulgent towards the awkward pair. Must be the ageing process and having kids of my own - God knows I've have run a mile from them (especially the cheese and biscuits monitor) if I'd come across either at university.
Interesting to see yet again how Oxford and Cambridge differ and how wrong it is to talk about a monolithic "Oxbridge". That kind of Brideshead-y punting with teddy pairs and silk dressing-gown flamboyance, as per the Yorkshire student in the programme, is peculiar to Oxford. you wouldn't see it in Cambridge which is more down to earth.
The ginger kid is a real people person.
Only, scanned through this by dragging the bar: The ginger nut looked as though he comes from Howarth. Bronte country.
The Tit Hall boy well...
not the on with the glasses he seems a snappy dresser, and a self-made guy