"Now where is your proof that the incident ever actually took place at all?"

I don't think the onus is on me to disprove it, and the £50 note-burning is well-known an has not been denied. Defend the necrophiliac porcine skull-shagger all you want, he'd be expect a certain type of prole that knows their place rally to his cause.

Whilst the thrust of Fred's post is correct, it essentially misses the real point of this whole story: the elite who run the country live in a very different world to us and think they are genuinely superior to us. Cam probably did know about Ashcroft's non-com status (though that story is old hat now and no-one believed Cam anyway) and now Ashcroft has taken the hump because he didn't get a seat at the toff's top table we get a peek inside their world.

The whole purpose of trashing restaurants, initiation rituals and clubs like the Bullingdon and the Gaviscon one are designed to create an elite that, despite a lack of genuine talent, insight or intelligence can gain power in a system of self-support and secrets kept for favours.

As for taking Ashcroft's word for anything, the boy is desperate and out of the loop. He might be lying, but then so might be the establishment when supporting the likes of Cameron. You pays your money . . .