OK, it's probably unfair to pick on a whole class of people who studied a particular subject at a particular university. But Labour does seem to have rather a lot of people who studied PPE at Oxford.

Here's a snapshot from a year or so ago:

(okay, I'm too lazy to check whether these people all really were the Cabinet on a particular date, but this article says 7 too)

The problem isn't the course. It isn't even the university. But it's the fact that so many of these people aspired to nothing other than climbing up the greasy pole of the Labour party in order to become MPs. Most of them have never had proper jobs, but have got into politics via their local Labour party or as a special advisor to an MP.

This isn't good for politics, and it certainly isn't good for us. And Labour tends to attract more of this type of person than other parties.

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