Bullingdon Club
Membership elections are held twice a year, when successful new members are visited in their rooms, which are then 'trashed' as a symbol of their election.
The Club's modus operandi has often been to book a private dining room under an assumed name, as most restaurateurs are wary of the Club's reputation for causing considerable drunken damage during the course of dinner.
A photograph of former Bullingdon Club members wearing their club uniforms, including David Cameron and Boris Johnson, was revealed in 2007.
Bullingdon Club rioters 1987
Rioters in London 2011
I predict a riot - about sentencing
As David Cameron calls for tougher sentences for rioters and looters, never has it been more clearly demonstrated both that the public don’t understand the legal process and that the tick box guidelines issued by the Sentencing Council are a waste of time. As advocacy sinks in the mire of “starting points” and “features” rather than human interest, judges will be lambasted anyway for trying to impose suitable sentences. As for the rioters, the public would lock them all up and throw away the key. The Sentencing Council tries to explain why sentences differ but eventually all everyone will argue about is whether the sentences were right.
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