David Cameron is still desperate to shake off the toff image of privilege and hard-drinking debauchery conjured up by those pictures of the Oxford University dining group, the Bullingdon Club. But it is not to be. The next haunting reminder comes in the form of a play, economically and accurately called Posh. Brilliantly timed to head up the 2010 spring season at the Royal Court in London, just in the run-up to the next election, the play tells the story of a group of 10 “young bloods” with deep pockets and cut-glass accents “intent on restoring their right to rule, inspired by the legendary Bullingdon Club”. Mr Cameron is on record as being “desperately embarrassed” by the 1986 shot of members whose main purpose was to quaff expensive wines at flash restaurants and smash them up in a post-prandial orgy of destruction. But Boris Johnson and George Osborne have yet to so much as blush. Playwright Laura Wade says the play “questions what effect a privileged upbringing has on the adult you become and your ability to understand how other people live”. Indeed.
