What do you think of all these Toffs wasting your money?

Question

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1937819/The-Spectator%27s-180th-anniversary-party.html

Answer 1

dont see the problem-it was a party to celebrate The Spectator-I doubt it was taxpayer funded.

Answer 2

It won't matter what I think, as they'll do it anyway, regardless of brazen pictures...

Answer 3

Hey babes, you are soooooo right!xxxx

Answer 4

We will never learn. Orf with their eds is what I say1

Answer 5

Nothing we do or say will alter anything. They do just what they like.

Answer 6

Lol yea, it's pretty bad isn't it. I have no faith in our government. I think we'd be in roughly the same position if we had monkeys ruling the country. It'd be the same thing, animals chirping about things they know nothing about, or bitching in the houses of parliament.

Answer 7

wow,  Anne Robinson looks impressive... :/

Answer 8

What exactly are Toffs, and the party they were attending was for The Spectator Magazine, a literary mag than Boris writes for. I dont understand all this class envy nonsense any way.

Anne Robinson, a working class lass if ever there was one, same for Joan Collins and Michael Winner what can one say about him, that would be unprintable, but Toffs that word went out with the ark

Answer 9

A Toff:

"A person of the upper class or high class pretence and usually communicating an air of superiority".

Vince is, at heart, a toff, but, being "naturaly superior" , he's very clever in hiding it from all and sundry and wishes others would do the same.

A nice portion of  fish  & chips wrapped in the Yorkshire Post, or in Boris' case the Spectator, would have been just as "chiq".

“Equality”: one of the lasting impressions I got when operating on  the Continent (Civil Aviation), was the look on my fellow Brits faces in International meetings. They simply could not understand why the 3 T’s (tongue, tie and t’club) cut no ice when negotiating with non-Brits. My pal (Mancunian) and I (Bradfordian)  pi..sed ourselves silly when, using an exaggerated North country broad, we carried the day with the locals. The “equality bit” was complete. “Toffs” were judged on their own terms, stripped to their proverbial underpants, in a  market place where only your noggin and your capacity to convince made any difference. Today most of this is history, so, every now and then, when I use the “old” BBC accent, I’m often considered a Dinosaur, and only saved by a quick Yorkshire “flat” inflexion. Keep your crusade up. An "Equal footing" is for the salt of the Earth,  for the winners, in all fields, because it gives everybody a fair chance, without becoming political.

Food: nothing tasted better than a  sixpenny plate of peas & pie, when we hopped it over the wall to get away from school dinners. We even split it between the three of us at tuppence a head.

Artificial barriers. dead right, the "new deal" is "become a special minority" and force the majority to take up with your "culture". I still draw a line at "Mum & Dad" - that argument went a long way to convince the waverers in the recent elections (Dad & Dad just didn't sound right - especially to the "Mamma" adoring Italians).

Answer 10

Pompous Twa*ts not toffs.

Answer 11

Twas ever thus and ever will be.

Answer 12

For the Tony Blair picture, what a wasted opportunity, "Line them up against a wall and....."