As Dennis Skinner famously said about Gideon Osborne: "educated beyond his intelligence"

Dave gave a pretty reasonable description of what Magna Carta was and what its effects were.
To be able to do that and not know what the two words Magna and Carta meant doesn't ring true to me.
I reckon he was pretending not know any Latin for fear of being tested on more Latin.

Nobody dislikes that man more than me (well maybe Cod'ead does, OK maybe a lot of people do ... but I still dislike him OK?) but I don't have a problem with his knowledge of Magna Carta or Rule Britannia.

Right. because it's not like English is littered with Latin phrases ...

You don't have to "know all your Latin" to work out that Magna means great and Carta is likely to be "charter" - or possibly map, but that's unlikely when you're talking about a charter that set out the righst of barons and other nobs.

And, frankly, why is pretending stupidity, because that's what you think plebs are like, better than actual ignorance?

Maybe he just forgot. People generally don't remember every single thing they learnt at school.

All kids should be taught Latin.

Good point!

Like when he left his young kid in that boozer?

Cameron's an intellectual pygmy compared to the last incumbent of No10 (the one who didn't need a private education).

[iDave's[/i an ad-man, and not a very bright one.

Maybe the Tories should bring in a good Grammar school girl like Mrs Thatcher then?

She's too busy getting her nappy changed.

Not very bright, but he is PM. What are you?

An international jetsetting lothario.
Do you want me to pay you a visit?

Bye bye Mitchell

And replaced by an Eton & Oxford educated baronet, who once famously saidhttps://p.twimg.com/A5l6YlXCIAAujTT.jpg" >

Schadenfreude on its grandest scale

In case any tory apologist thinks that the poster may have been photoshopped, as of this morning, it was still available on rlYoung's official websiterl, including the accompanying textOn(sic) 1982, along with Jimmy Saville(sic), the Youngs featured on a British Rail poster promoting the transport of bicycles by rail. Sir George had made a critical speech in the House, having found British Rail restrictive and at times unhelpful to cyclists.
Putting his bicycle in the guards van felt like invading someone's private space.When they responded with some improvements, BR invited Sir George to help with their publicity.
(Some of these posters were still up at stations in Ealing during the 1983 General Election campaign. Ingeniously, Sir George's opponents argued that British Rail's publicity programme should be added to Sir George's election expenses. They didn't get very far, as Sir George's name was not on the poster.)[/i

Justice for Mitchell?

In what way ?