kfpben
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The successful, multi term winning U.K. Prime Ministers in the past few decades have mostly been very posh and getting posher.
Do the English voters broadly love a toff? How else can we explain Rees-Mogg?
Blair, PM for 3 terms, Fettes (the Eton of Scotland). Oxford.
Brown. Not a toff. Defeated in a GE.
Cameron, PM for 2 terms (ish), Eton.
May. Not a toff. Lost her majority.
Boris. Eton. Oxford. Super Toff. Currently an electoral powerhouse.
Mrs. Thatcher was famously ‘the Grocer’s daughter’ and a Grammar School girl but to the modern ear sounds very plummy.
Do we just feel safer with a Toff in charge?
NB. I don’t think this works for Scotland and Wales. Celts don’t seem to vote for Toffs.
Do the English voters broadly love a toff? How else can we explain Rees-Mogg?
Blair, PM for 3 terms, Fettes (the Eton of Scotland). Oxford.
Brown. Not a toff. Defeated in a GE.
Cameron, PM for 2 terms (ish), Eton.
May. Not a toff. Lost her majority.
Boris. Eton. Oxford. Super Toff. Currently an electoral powerhouse.
Mrs. Thatcher was famously ‘the Grocer’s daughter’ and a Grammar School girl but to the modern ear sounds very plummy.
Do we just feel safer with a Toff in charge?
NB. I don’t think this works for Scotland and Wales. Celts don’t seem to vote for Toffs.