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(not satire – it’s Toby Young!)
Rabid Tory supporter, Free School advocate and Telegraph columnist Toby Young likes to boast about how he is a perfect example of how anyone can succeed because he managed to get a place at Oxford despite failing most of his O’ Levels.
In fact, he managed to do this because – according to Toby – Brasenose College, Oxford sent him a letter of acceptance ‘by mistake’.
Well of course Toby was accepted into Oxford ‘by mistake’.
It had absolutely nothing to do with the fact that his father was a leading member of the Labour Party and a life peer, Baron Young, and his mother was a well-known artist, writer and BBC Radio producer.
No – it was just a mistake – the kind of ‘mistakes’ which only seem to happen to the children of the rich, the influential or the well-known.
Interestingly, it was Toby’s father who coined the phrase ‘meritocracy‘ – the seemingly radical idea that people’s position in society should be based on merit rather than on what family they were born into or what school they went to.
Which makes you wonder why Toby also thinks disabled children should be excluded from schools.
No, really. He does.
Writing in The Spectator, Toby reckons that wheelchair ramps shouldn’t be included in schools because they are an example of ‘ghastly, politically correct’ inclusiveness.
Toby – I’d like to explain to you why excluding disabled children who use wheelchairs from schools is not one of your best ideas, by making a technical point about human biology – clearly one of the O’ Level subjects you must have failed.
People don’t think with their f***ing legs you bonehead.
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The story is that it was Daddy Young (not an MP by the way) who used backdoor influences to get TDMY into Oxford when he wasn’t thought to be up to it by the Dons. Of course, this is just malicious tale-telling by nasty right-wingers and dissident extreme leftists – we all know that the upper-middle-class social democrat elect couldn’t possibly be so hypocritical and selfish when considering the interests of themselves and their familes against those of the little people.
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Absolutely. Although my right leg does occasionally think of its own accord.
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Ha ha !
Can I carry your shopping?
🙂
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So, you wouldn’t have had Steven Hawking (the physics professor) anywhere near any of your schools either?
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I think you must have been mistaken. In my experience things on the right rarely think for themselves. 😉
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So to become a journalist you need to fail all, or most of your exams, says it all really!
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Journalists have become as despised as politicians.They have little integrity.We all know that IDS talks utter bollocks,but they quote him unchallenged.I no longer buy newspapers,they don’t do news,its all Propaganda.
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Reblogged this on Beastrabban’s Weblog and commented:
Tom Pride here suggests that Toby Young, the Telegraph Columnist, probably got into Oxford because of who his parents were, and not because Brasenose made a mistake. He also takes issue with Young arguing that physically disabled kids shouldn’t be included in mainstream schools. I am not surprised by these views, as Young does seem to have spent most of his career being obnoxious and trying to annoy people, as shown in the film, How To Lose Friends and Alienate People. Or a title to that effect. This is merely the latest outrage.
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