Caught with the Sticky Wicket ; Britain's 'Working Stiffs' Get a Proper Scandal

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British sex scandals have mostly been Tory business, with an upper-class patina of perversity. The men of the wealthy class the "toffs," as the English call them always feel entitled to the ladies, who are lured by power and old money. Tories go to uppercrust schools, grow up to the taste of champagne, marry thoroughbreds and can afford expensive call girls.

Labor scandals tend to be about money because Labor politicians don't have as much of it. It's a class thing. Oswald Mosley famously urged "Vote Labor, Sleep Tory." (We have a version of it in Washington: "Date Democratic, Marry Republican." Everybody has to grow up.)

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Caught with the Sticky Wicket ; Britain's 'Working Stiffs' Get a Proper Scandal

But such distinctions are old (top) hat and out-of-date bowlers. The latest sex scandal is about New Labor and it has an arriviste vulgarity more of Bill Clinton than John Profumo, the Conservative minister f...

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