BBC2 Wonderland: Young, Bright, on the Right

[mercia]

did anyone catch this last night?

young Oxbridge Tory members perhaps being gently sent up, or inadvertently sending themselves up

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01l9zfm/Wonderland_Series_5_Young_Bright_and_on_the_Right/

I wonder what else will be in the Wonderland series

[french frank]

Didn't watch it but read this article (one of those irritating stories on the BBC News website (here, BBC Politics) which when you get to the end of it you suddenly notice is an advert for a BBC programme

[mercia]

the programme may have been intended as a serious look at how difficult it might be to get into (Tory) politics if one is state-educated, but rather came across (to me) as a study of a certain corner of British "eccentricity" [which I think previous Wonderland programmes have been]

[Mary Chambers]

I found it a bit sad, somehow. Those boys are going to be SO embarrassed if they do become politicians (doubtful, I imagine), and some of that footage is shown.

Wiiliam Hague is state-educated, I think, and it doesn't seem to have stopped him. And what about John Major and Edward Heath? I don't know if any of those tried to rise in the ranks of the young fogies at university, though. I don't think Major went to university at all.