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> I'm just sad he's the exception rather than the norm. Margaret Thatcher was the daughter of a grocer, worked as a scientist and became PM, despite huge party
by pidg 10y ago
> I'm just sad he's the exception rather than the norm.
Margaret Thatcher was the daughter of a grocer, worked as a scientist and became PM, despite huge party opposition at the time because she was middle class. Gordon Brown went to a comprehensive. John Major didn't even go to university...
- edent 10y agoOh, aye, it happens. But look at the current cabinet and try to find a bloke who didn't go to school with the PM...
- alexbilbie 10y agoOf the 14 male Cabinet ministers (excluding the PM) only 3 went to Oxford; of whom only Gove and Osbourne attended at the same time as Cameron.
- edent 10y agoI never let the facts get in the way of my prejudices.