This is one of my favorite factoids about how insanely elitist UK politics is.https://twitter.com/xenocryptsite/status/752528558657069057 …
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Another was Andrew Sullivan...William Hague was also a Tory leader. Maybe this is specific to them (I think I read they used to make Parliamentary candidates take an SAT-style exam).pic.twitter.com/kZImRk2ZC9
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There's some of this in US politics too (recall Bill Clinton's offhand remark in his 2016 DNC speech that, as an active Yale student, he "knew all the Democrats about to run for office in the country" or something like that) but I would guess it's even stronger in the UK.
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Actually someone was just sharing a chart of members of Congress with Ivy League backgrounds and I'm SURE someone's made a historical chart of how many MPs went to Oxbridge, right?
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Ah here we go. I'd prefer a cumulative chart but this is interesting. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/8689818.stm … https://www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/factcheck-qa-how-posh-is-parliament …pic.twitter.com/3qT9sKICln
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This is more damning when you consider how little class/economic diversity there is at Oxbridge. There are reasonable estimates that the class mix was more diverse in 1500 than today.
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Fortunately, much of today's political establishment was born in the 1500's
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