https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/15/chumocracy-covid-revealed-shape-tory-establishment this article does a brilliant job of mapping how a small group of tories are profiting off our misery. what it doesn't show is that these hyperwealthy parasites are mostly the offspring of aristocrats, powerful military figures & colonial administrators

So Kate Bingham is daughter of Baron Bingham of Cornhill, and her husband, Tory MP is the son of Sir Torquil Norman and his wife Lady Elizabeth Montagu. Apparently this means their kids are in remainder to the Norman baronetcy. Anyone know wtf that means?

Dido Harding is the granddaughter of Field Marshal Allan Francis Harding, who was Governor of Cyprus from 1955 to 1957 during the Cyprus Emergency, after advising on the genocidal suppression of the Mau Mau uprising, which involved detaining 1.5 million Kenyans.

Harding would have worked under Lord Howick who was governor of Kenya at that time. He was also the grandfather of Mary Wakefield, Dominic Cummings' wife. Her great grandfather was Evelyn Baring, British Controller-General of Egypt.

They'll try to tell you empire is ancient history, that we live in a meritocracy, that if you work hard you can get ahead. The way to get to the top is to start there.

I got this from 20 minutes on wikipedia. some of the aristocrats and colonial war criminals attached to the Conservative chumocracy are perhaps more discrete and less well-documented online. Any journalists wanna take this on? @declassifiedUK @VICEUK