Bullingdon Club

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The Bullingdon Club is a long-established club for students at the University of Oxford.[1]

Originally founded as a club to support sports, at Oxford, like cricket, by the late 20th century, its members were notorious for vandalism, sexism, drunken rowdiness, and elitism.[1]

Its members included multiple future Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom, including David Cameron and Boris Johnson.[1] When Johnson Prime Minister he was criticized for appointing individuals who had been his friends, in the club, to posts for which they seem unqualified.

Alumni include

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Harriet Sherwood. Sexism, vandalism and bullying: inside the Boris Johnson-era Bullingdon Club, The Guardian, 2019-07-07. Retrieved on 2022-09-07. “Now new light has been shed on the outrageous antics of the Bullingdon Club – the Oxford University group that may be about to produce its second British prime minister – by someone intimately connected to it during Boris Johnson’s membership.” mirror