[arethuza]

I would say that on any given weekend a significant proportion of the male population of the UK, particularly between 16 and 25, are doing stuff that involves large amount of alcohol, breaking things and the occasional stripper.

Not sure why these guys doing it is that bad or different.

[smoyer]

Sorry, that wasn't my point at all. I was focusing on the part of the article that describes the potential of the general populations discontent with the social program management by the elites.

[arethuza]

I seriously doubt that there is that much discontent - perhaps most people are evaluating politicians based on their policies and actions when in power rather than being influenced by whether they are posh or not and what they got up to at university 25 years ago. [Edit: what a horrendously naive thing for me to say :-)]

Perhaps my own concern about modern MPs is they often lack "real world" experience before working in politics - but that's a criticism I could make of both sides of the political spectrum.

[smoyer]

And on both sides of the Atlantic!

[PlzSnow]

Apparently because they're the "elites" or something.

Something something lizards something.