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whitewave Mon 21-Sept-15 14:05:14

grin Nice balance to JCs woes

Ashcroft sounds like a woman being scorned putting the boot in.

DC knew about his non Dom status even though he denied it.

Lots of titttle tattle about Oxford and the "sneery" club. What a horrible lot they are.

durhamjen Mon 21-Sept-15 14:11:50

I agree, whitewave. It's so nice when it's one of their own.

jinglbellsfrocks Mon 21-Sept-15 14:13:41

No doubt he'll make some money from his book, but it's hardly going to harm DC. It's about student days for goodness sake!

Sorry whitewave. Try again. grin

whitewave Mon 21-Sept-15 14:14:50

Surprised none of the DM readers on here hadn't posted it already, quite a scandel-.

whitewave Mon 21-Sept-15 14:18:23

Cameron knew of Ashcroft's tax status even though he denied it at the time.

whitewave Mon 21-Sept-15 14:20:27

The university stuff isn't of interest except to give us an idea of Cameron's character.

Elegran Mon 21-Sept-15 14:24:41

Or perhaps the writer's character, thinking that here was a good chance to sell his book by putting in some highly coloured (and have they been verified?) anecdotes about the PM's student antics ?

durhamjen Mon 21-Sept-15 14:39:02

I was reading about another book yesterday which has just come out, Cameron's first five years by Anthony Seldon. The reviewer was saying how boring it was, as it wasn't the inside story at all, but interviews with Cameron's coterie.
The best bit in it was about Cameron saying to Merkel, "I am passionate about the single market, I am passionate about foreign policy cooperation, but if I do not listen to British public opinion then Britain will depart from Europe...what I want are changes that will make it possible for Britain to stay in."
Really?
It will be interesting to see which book sells the most copies.

whitewave Mon 21-Sept-15 14:42:16

He still knew about Ashcroft's fiddle though.

jinglbellsfrocks Mon 21-Sept-15 14:51:45

HOw can you know that?

Riverwalk Mon 21-Sept-15 14:55:17

Drugs, debauchery, pigs and penis ...... all very interesting .

But AIBU to ask why Ashcroft waited until after the General Election to publish?

Teetime Mon 21-Sept-15 15:00:12

Penis! DC has a penis- who knew?

jinglbellsfrocks Mon 21-Sept-15 15:01:00

He would have been slaughtered if he had published it before!!! The election wasn't only about Cameron.

jinglbellsfrocks Mon 21-Sept-15 15:02:03

It's not interesting. It was days of youth. He's a grownup now.

whitewave Mon 21-Sept-15 15:04:22

It is because DC didn't offer him a job that he'd been promised
That's why I twittered on about a woman scorned.

DC still suppressed the tax fiddle though.

jinglbellsfrocks Mon 21-Sept-15 15:04:56

You think they will operate it from China? With a big control panel?

jinglbellsfrocks Mon 21-Sept-15 15:05:21

Wrong effin thread

whitewave Mon 21-Sept-15 15:06:52

grin

rosequartz Mon 21-Sept-15 15:09:53

jings grin

That's why I twittered on about a woman scorned

It's not the first time.

whitewave Mon 21-Sept-15 15:13:26

Gosh!

rosequartz Mon 21-Sept-15 15:16:52

I don't mean about DC, but he allegedly had a habit of buying up companies whose owner/MD had upset him
Reportedly, allegedly, ostensibly, apparently, I have no proof, etc etc

petra Mon 21-Sept-15 15:37:39

Anything that involves a dead pigs head and a grown man is good for a laugh.

nigglynellie Mon 21-Sept-15 16:36:54

So nobody on the opposition benches ever took drugs?, never behaved riotously at university? Oh come on, give me a break, which one of us behaved like latter day saint all those years ago. As Jack Straw once said, ' The follies of youth' We've all been there, even the sainted Labour party has had its less than salubrious moments when young! (where they ever young?!!) and it's fair share of less than honest members. A woman scorned is a fair description of this elderly peer.

nigglynellie Mon 21-Sept-15 17:16:19

Sorry, were, not where!

Nelliemoser Mon 21-Sept-15 17:34:03

I am no supporter of DC but as others have said, within reason the stuff people did at Uni is no real indication of real charactet