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https://web.archive.org/web/20090806051215/http://www.oxfordstudent.com/ht2006wk0/Features/smashing_job_chaps:_exclusive_inside_look_at_bullingdon_clubYou seem to know a lot about the Bullindon Club. If it was as bad as all that, perhaps you can explain why the restaurants accepted the bookings? Why a group of easily identifiable students in fancy dress weren't perused back to their colleges and brought to justice by the police?
Some edited highlights for you:
Last December, images of snivelling Bullingdon members were splashed all over the tabloids after all 17 members were arrested for wrecking the cellar of the 15th century pub, the White Hart, in Fyfi eld.
17 bottles of wine were smashed into the walls of the pub after the civility of a gourmet meal descended into a brawl, leaving a trail of debris that was compared by eye-witnesses to a scene from the blitz. The inebriated members started fi ghting, leaving one with a deep cut to the cheek, and the landlord recalls attempting to pull apart the fi ghting parties, only to have them set on each other once more, exclaiming, Sorry old chap, just a bit of high spirits.
Four members, including the ringleader, Alexander Fellowes Princess Dianas nephew spent the night in jail.
Any member would no doubt be horrifi ed by such a comparison; the Bullingdon is a dining club not a drinking society, regardless of the fact that our source openly admits that they regularly get kicked out of restaurants for rowdiness before the main course arrives.
Thats why Alexander Fellowes, at the White Hart, tipped the waitress £200, on top of all of the members paying for the damage infl icted. Our source described the White Hart landowner as unfair for reporting the matter to the police and as having no sense of humour. Most people, he adds, are willing to let such matters slide in exchange for the remuneration on offer.
Although the eyewitnesses at the White Hart described the diners degeneration as appearing highly ritualised, our source denies that the Bullingdons outbursts are intended. He claims that, hard done by members always intend to have a civilised meal, but the historical precedent set by former Bullingdon generations means that somehow, after a couple of bottles of Dom Perignon, their expensive primal instincts are released.
That is not to say though that they wake up after a night of debauchery, in their vomit stained tailcoats, with intense feelings of regret - according to our source, the night at the White Hart was objectively funny. The Bullingdon seems to be guided by various strangely distorted moral ideas. Along with rule number one - its quite fine to wreak havoc, provided you can pay for it - it seems to currently have a slightly peculiar drugs policy.