Sunday, 18 April 2010

Class warrior Lord Mandelson 

upsets his 'toffee-nosed' pals

Lord Mandelson's jibe about David Cameron 'looking down 

his rather long toffee nose' at people may have won him 

cheers from his Labour comrades, but will such class warfare 

cost him prized holiday invitations?

 
Class warrior Lord Mandelson upsets his 'toffee-nosed' pals
Nicky Haslam: ''Labour has demonised toffs, for want of a better word'' Photo: PAUL GROVER

Nicky Haslam, who has been good friends with the Business Secretary since they met at Lord Rothchild's villa in Corfu, is disgusted by Labour.

"It is appalling," the interior designer said after the premiere of Duncan Ward's's film Boogie Woogie in Mayfair. "They are obsessed with this thing about class. It is always now seen as a bad idea to educate people: everything is so screwed up. Labour has dragged this country to the absolute bottom."

The friend of the Duchess of Cornwall added: "Labour has demonised toffs, for want of a better word. They have demonised education; they have demonised hunting, any gentlemanly pursuits.

"There has got to be a change. They'll destroy the class system; destroy the countryside; they'll destroy everything. They want a Communist state, I promise you. They don't want any difference in anybody at all."