Jeremy Corbyn's favourite biscuit

It was a Direct Grant school Trisher and although considered posh in some quarters it had a liberal ethos.
The highlight of my 6th form years was a visit by the late great Brian Redhead who at that time edited the Guardian to talk to us about current affairs.

Only if you got caught!

I used it, jane, but never even thought of that. Defacing books got you into trouble.

You must have gone to a posh school ja never had one of them to alter! Took me a while to get what you were on about.

Did anyone else use Kennedy's Shorter Latin Primer at school and alter it to the Shortbread Eating Primer?
Perhaps it could become the Labour Party's manual, like Mao Tse-tung's Little Red Book.
Sorry Corbynistas, couldn't resist

It is rumoured that us Corbynistas now intend to make shortbread eating compulsory for all Labour supporters. Any Labour MPs who fail to reach their eating targets will be automatically deselected. Only those with a real and absolute commitment to shortbread eating will be allowed to stand.

Us Corbynistas enjoy a piece of good traditional shortbread. Any politician who is not a media darling is unable to say anything without the the masses taking the piss. It is the current equivalent to the stocks!

I eat a balanced diet Daphne...... A choccy digestive in each hand

Boris has no time for biscuits I suspect, of any flavour, but I can imagine him scarfing a bacon butty ( more elegantly, one hopes than poor old Ed Miliband.)

Good idea Smileness, if you eat them for me then you are not eating them for yourself

Oh well, if you insist Anniebach I'll eat extra just for you. Hope know one notices though, it's going to sound mighty strange if someone asks why I'm consuming soooo many ginger biscuits and I reply 'I'm eating for 2' especially if the person asking is Mr. S..

Thanks thatbagsI suppose I'm simply a dunker and clunker (dunking the biscuit and clunking the spoon). I don't think anyone's described my behaviour as perfectly normal before so these are for you.

I bet Heston Blumenthal could make them.
There is nothing little about those ginger biscuits GillyB.

Oh bacon butty biscuits I haven't tried them rosersrered I wonder here would I find them?

I think Boris is more a bacon butty kind of man.

People do seem to think that about Boris Johnson, I agree, phoenix. Can't say I've ever watched him closely enough to know. Theresa May says he's doing a good job in the Foreign Office, apparently.

I might make some ginger biscuits tomorrow.

ginger nuts are a staple part of my diet ( not that kind of diet!)

Move over Slimming World, Foxtrot Oscar off Weightwatchers - this is the diet for me!!

I think Boris has had more than his fair share of biccies . I expect he's a bit of a custard cream kinda man.

I am the next door neighbour in "keeping up with appearances" trisher but ones gotta try ones best (curtesy emoticon)

I can understand why you choose to run past that bakery Stansgran it must break your 'art to see those poor little weeping ginger nuts. I mean there's no stigma in being a ginge these days.

When DD2 was at Oxford years ago, she didn't know anyone remotely like the Bullingdon Club members the media are so fond of.
ginger nuts are a staple part of my diet ( not that kind of diet!) I have tried all makes and they are all good, when the biscuit factory that makes them was flooded recently( this year) I was gutted not to be able to buy them.
Plain choc digestives are my favourite biscuit ( the more, the merrier)

Just to perhaps balance things, or maybe not, I think that sometimes Boris Johnson behaves in an oik like way.

(Tin helmet time)

There are over 3000 new undergraduates at Oxford every year and over 5000 graduates. Graduates in particular are an extremely divers group of people from all over the world. Out of all those thousands Bullingdoners account for a miniscule fraction of one per cent. They are not typical of Oxford students at all. So why are they mentioned as if representative over and over again?

I think there is an fairly widespread automatic antagonism whenever Oxford and Cambridge are mentioned. I wasn't talking only about attitudes on gransnet. In my experience people often make resentful assumptions about Oxbridge undergrads and Oxbridge alumni when in reality the vast majority of them are perfectly decent people. Why wouldn't they be, even if their parents did send them to fee-paying schools? It gets very tiresome.

The repeated mention of the Bullingdon Club only reinforces the impression of that automatic antagonism especially when I also expect that very few people know of more than a very few ex-Bullingdoners (or whatever they call themselves).

Thank you whitewave - I appreciate your kindness.

It wasn't aimed at anyone, eloethan. It was contrasting two attitudes.