ephemerid wrote: Well, this qualfied counsellor is definitely struggling. As we know from many cases of bullying and abuse, victims don't talk.
It is no more incumbent on the OPs to produce evidence that anyone "experienced anything" than it is on you to infer they didn't.
This is not simply "a group of tightly-knit rich kids" pratting about dong what they want while drunk. This is a group of seriously rich scions of the aristocracy and what are considered "good" families, being groomed for the expectation that they will be occupants of high office or captains of industry - on the basis of no more merit than I have, and based purely on who their parents are, where they go to school, which university they attend, and which drinking club they belong to assuming they keep quiet about how they are initiated.
This isn't about "inspiration" and getting pissed - it's about the sort of behaviour that you and I, Tubby, would get criminal records for.
See, it would be so easy if there really were not any merit to this lot, particularly Cameron in this case. Sure, all sorts of strings have been pulled for him, but he became leader of his party at 39, played a very skillful hand in the Coalition, and just defied the odds by winning a majority. None of this just follows from going to Eton or Oxford. We don't have to like him, but we have to recognize that he's good at what he does and would probably be good at lots of things. We always make the same mistake when a Cameron comes along, and we'll do it with the next one.
You don't get a criminal record for being in some juvenile club with bizarre initiation, or else the courts would be full of sadomasochists. Pretty full on stuff among consenting adults isn't only tolerated, it's massively commercialized now. Barring James Anderton coming back for "one last case" that's unlikely to change.