Looks like the Student Grants who trashed Central London yesterday really do fit the trustafarian stereotype :
"Privately-educated Charlie Gilmour, whose Pink Floyd guitarist stepfather is worth £80million, said: 'I would like to express my deepest apologies for the terrible insult to the thousands of people who died bravely for our country that my actions represented. I feel nothing but shame. My intention was not to attack or defile the Cenotaph. Running along with a crowd of people who had just been violently repelled by the police, I got caught up in the spirit of the moment. I did not realise that it was the Cenotaph and if I had, I certainly would not have done what I did. I feel additionally mortified that my moment of idiocy has distracted so much from the message yesterday's protest was trying to send out. Those who are commemorated by the Cenotaph died to protect the very freedoms that allow the people of Britain the right to protest and I feel deeply ashamed to have, although unintentionally and unknowingly, insulted the memory of them.'"
Lying toerag. He's doing history at Cambridge and he doesn't know what the Cenotaph is. And he 'just got caught up'.
He feels nothing but shame that it's all over the papers, that's all. Cretin.
UPDATE - cleverclogs Carol Vorderman tweets "Cowardly little liar".
UPDATE - Julia comments :
"Well, good grief! The BBC News just ran an interview with Charlie Gilmour, made on the day, before they knew who he was, or what he'd done, and it's pretty clear he's either functionally retarded, or was drunk or stoned at the time. If you can catch it on iPlayer, I suggest you watch, and marvel at what passes for a Cambridge-educated student these days. "
Anyone seen this interview and got a copy or a link ?
(I think that's the first ever mention of Twitter on this blog)
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Perhaps the trustafarian twat really doesn't know the difference between "The Glorious Dead" and "The Grateful Dead".
Meanwhile, over at the Daily Spart's CiF pages (that's Consensus is Favoured), they're queuing up to defend the vandalisation of Churchill's statue.
Little pit vipers the lot of 'em.
No doubt Daddy's PR team wrote that statement for him...
Well, good grief!
The BBC News just ran an interview with him (made on the day, before they knew who he was, or what he'd done), and it's pretty clear he's either functionally retarded, or was drunk or stoned at the time.
If you can catch it on iPlayer, I suggest you watch, and marvel at what passes for a Cambridge-educated student these days.
Altogether now:
WE DON'T NEED NO EDUCATION...
I wouldn't be seen dead in leggings like that.
He certainly is a prat, Laban; but his schooling is largely irrelevant and your point ad hominem, as most of his fellow demonstrators were surely state school prats!
The products of public -- or more accurately independent -- schools are one of the few minorities that can be safely abused in modern Britain.
He certainly is a prat, Laban; but his schooling is largely irrelevant and your point ad hominem, as most of his fellow demonstrators were surely state school prats!
Not so, anon. A point I frequently make on this blog is that the poor and the working class are better off without their upper-class 'defenders'.
Oh he's the gift that keeps on giving.
The trustafarian son of a multimillionaire (try saying that like Withnail). His (adoptive) old man being the man who made millions from singing "We Don't Need No Education" then sent his boy to public school and Cambridge. Only the best for our boy, eh, Dave?
I wonder why he didn't wear one of his (two) Saville Row suits. Shame on me, but I'm a well-paid professional in my 40s and I haven't got one.
Didn't know it was the Cenotaph. My arse, as Jim Royle would say.
I hope if spotted anyone who sees him would shout (a la Pub Landlord) "Shame on you, Gilmour, SHAME ON YOU!"
He's at Girton which was at one time a women-only college. Figures.
Disciplinary matters are handled ultimately by The Mistress:
Professor Susan J. Smith FBA
Girton College,
Cambridge,
CB3 0JG
mistress@girton.cam.ac.uk
Just in case you wanted to register your displeasure.
I'm surprised they haven't linked a clip of the interview to their news accounts of the story.
Unless they've been asked not to?
"Disciplinary matters are handled ultimately by The Mistress..."
Oo-er!
"Lying toerag. He's doing history at Cambridge and he doesn't know what the Cenotaph is. And he 'just got caught up'."
History Jim, but not as we knew it.
"Disciplinary matters are handled ultimately by The Mistress..."
It does conjure up quite an image, doesn't it?
But, Laban, Gilmour jnr is not the same as Seamus Milne et al. He's not some pompous Guardianista defending or trying to lead the proles. He's a silly little prat who was caught up in the carnival group-think of a riot, and as such his educational background is irrelevant. If, of course, he'd been part of a group of privately educated thugs seeking to lead and incite the rioting, then your point would be well made; but my understanding is that he was not, and so your comment unfortunately sounds chippy.
Julia - a/c/t this Mail report
a) a "friend" (presumably someone who knows him, not much of a friend) said that he was on acid and had said as much on Facebook before hastily deleting
b) that statement WAS from his dad's PR company!
Top marks for perception.
Cheers!
Funnily enough, I was just Tweeted the video that you've just posted. :)
anon - give him time. Seamus Milne was doubtless like that once.
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