Comments by "Piccalilli Pit" (@piccalillipit9211) on "Eton sends out a distasteful message" video.

  1. I WORKED WIHT LOTS OF PUBLIC SCHOOL BOYS this is my story... In 1995 I worked for a company in the north of England and earned about £35k as a very good sales person who worked incredibly hard. All the guys down south were ex public school boys from Winchester School, Eton, and Harrow. They played golf all day or went clay pigeon shooting with their friends from school who worked at the big banks in the city. I was daft enough to think they were skiving off work - until I was told the COMPANY paid for this??? WHAT? This was their job - and they were paid £65k. They were paid nearly double what I was paid to have fun with their schoolmates because they all worked at the big banks and the company got massive contracts from them. they worked at the banks got their dads and family friends worked at the banks. The company was paying for the CONTACTS and the FRIENDSHIPS the guys had made at the incredibly expensive schools.
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  2. I WORKED WITH LOTS OF PUBLIC SCHOOL BOYS this is my story... In 1995 I worked for a company in the north of England and earned about £35k as a very good sales person who worked incredibly hard. All the guys down south were ex public school boys from Winchester School, Eton, and Harrow. They played golf all day or went clay pigeon shooting with their friends from school who worked at the big banks in the city. I was daft enough to think they were skiving off work - until I was told the COMPANY paid for this??? WHAT? This was their job - and they were paid £65k. They were paid nearly double what I was paid to have fun with their schoolmates because they all worked at the big banks and the company got massive contracts from them. they worked at the banks got their dads and family friends worked at the banks. The company was paying for the CONTACTS and the FRIENDSHIPS the guys had made at the incredibly expensive schools.
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  3. I WORKED WITH LOTS OF PUBLIC SCHOOL BOYS this is my story... In 1995 I worked for a company in the north of England and earned about £35k as a very good sales person who worked incredibly hard. All the guys down south were ex public school boys from Winchester School, Eton, and Harrow. They played golf all day or went clay pigeon shooting with their friends from school who worked at the big banks in the city. I was daft enough to think they were skiving off work - until I was told the COMPANY paid for this??? WHAT? This was their job - and they were paid £65k. They were paid nearly double what I was paid to have fun with their schoolmates because they all worked at the big banks and the company got massive contracts from them. they worked at the banks cos their dads and family friends worked at the banks. The company was paying for the CONTACTS and the FRIENDSHIPS the guys had made at the incredibly expensive schools.
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  4.  @movingpicutres99  - Dont get me wrong, I liked these guys. They were definitely NOT the Johnsons or Rees Mogg's of this world. But they did inhabit an entirely different world to me. We had a Christmas party and they arrived looking like something out of Downton Abbey.
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  5.  @sharonramsey715  - Im reading Winston Churchill's book "My Early Years", now it is a genuine shock to me how aware of his own privilege and his own shortcomings he is, he readily mocks himself. But on his entrance exam for Eton he put his name, the date, he underlined them and that was it - and he passed... What is different is he, and the people around him had a very very strong sense of duty and service, the person he admired most n the world was his nanny - because she gave a life of service and he tried to live up to her example. To him the more privilege you had the more service you should give. That is the thing we have lost today.
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  6.  @sharonramsey715  - Its quite difficult to put it in modern terms. But he and his generation saw a good life as a life of service, according to your station. Lets be clear Im not advocating this - ok. But a cook should serve the house, a nanny should serve the children and family, a teacher should serve the kinds and the school, the son of a Duke should serve the country in the military and then politics. Life was a life of service to the greater good, and each had their place. Its not a concept that is readily translated into the modern world. But a butler that served with dignity for 40 years is a better person than a Duke that lives off his inheritance and does nothing for anyone. Churchill and his contemporaries would absolutely DESPISE the modern Tories, they are the epitome of everything they deemed worthless in a human, born into privilege and use it for personal gain and giving nothing to the country.
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