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On Oct 21, 3:15*am, Lazarus Cooke
wrote:
For those unfamiliar with British politics, it's interesting to note
that this photograph

http://adifferentvoice.files.wordpre...ngdon-club.jpg

not only shows both David Cameron, the leader of the Conservative Party
(and therefore of Her Majesty's Loyal opposition - standing, second
from left) and the mayor of London, Boris Johnson (sitting, scowling,
blond) during their membership of the notorious Bullingdon Club at
Oxford -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullingdon_Club

... but with typical regard for democracy, it is illegal to reproduce
this picture in the UK, and so it is never shown on posters, in
newspapers, on television, and so is known only to a few jaded hacks.

L

I very much doubt that it is actually illegal. If it is true, then it
normally can not be illegal, except for reasons of state and similar.
Also, a fairly large number of people get to see everything on the
news wires nowadays, including the technicians who service them, and a
great many others. Lots of stuff goes over the wires form AP Reuters,
and a couple of others, which is not published in certain countries,
and some of it is marked "Not for publication in the UK", or similar.
I handled very many such photos and reports when I was chief engineer
for a large news service which also handled the feeds mentioned.

Also, if anybody wants information like that nowadays it is usually a
simple matter to obtain it from the web.

There is no way the British government itself could censor the web,
and so declaring anything like that "illegal" would be absolutely
pointless.

Incidentally, ritualised decadence of that nature has more to do with
"class" matters, than with actual politics, although large numbers of
politicians and senior government levels are drawn from "upper class"
society, not least because many of them receive the best educations
available, and already have many of the necessary contacts to do so.
The "Old Boys Network" of various schools is still very much in
evidence, and extremely influential and powerful.