‘I chucked out the Tory yobs’
Wednesday 29th October 2008, 2:29PM GMT.
RANDALL’S managing director Ian Rogers has spoken about the time he had to throw members of the Bullingdon Club out of his pub in Oxfordshire.
Oxford University’s exclusive all-male dining society has hit the headlines recently as it counts among its former members three of the Conservative Party’s top-brass – David Cameron, George Osbourne and Boris Johnson.
On Radio 4’s Broadcasting House show, Mr Rogers (pictured) described the club’s famously explosive dinner at the White Hart in 2005 when he was landlord. There is no suggestion that Mr Cameron, Mr Osbourne or Mr Johnson was involved.
‘I just took a booking from 14 young student guys, smoked salmon for starters, steak for main course, no dessert,’ said Mr Rogers.
‘We were just delivering the main course when the whole thing erupted, they were just throwing bottles at the wall, smashing, the wall was just littered with red wine stains, broken glass, they were jumping on this main big table. They were jumping on each other’s backs, I was pulling them off.’
He said it was not really nasty, more childish.
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The whole creed is thoroughly unpleasant. Taking drugs and smashing up the place and then getting shoe-horned into positions of power with neither experience nor an aptitude for humanity.
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Fast Robert
The majority of what you write are my thoughts exatly but maybe you can explain where the drug element creeped into the equation here exactly?
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They were well known for their ‘parties’. My brother was at Oxford in the mid eighties….no direct tales-to-names but there’s no billowing clouds of smoke without some sort of accelerant.
Boris Johnson and Cameron have all but admitted it anyhow.
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