David Cameron (left) is descended from King William IV
Indeed, his wife Samantha is aristocratic on both sides of her family.
Creative director of the upmarket stationery company Smythson of Bond Street, she is a direct descendant of Nell Gwyn, mistress to Charles II, and her stepfather is Viscount Astor.
Meanwhile, 'Call me Dave' himself comes from a family which makes the bulk of the British landed gentry seem positively nouveau riche.
Cameron is William IV's great-great-great-great-great grandson, which Debrett's says makes him fifth cousin, twice removed, of the Queen.
As Patrick Cracroft-Brennan, of the guide Cracroft's Peerage, says: "Mr Cameron is the most aristocratic leader of the Conservative Party since Alec Douglas-Home."
But as well as being impeccably connected, David Cameron is also extremely wealthy. Sunday Times Rich List compiler and wealth watchdog Philip Beresford has valued the Tory leader for the first time.
He says: "I put the combined family wealth of David and Samantha Cameron at £30m plus. Both sides of the family are extremely wealthy. They certainly have no need to worry about poverty or paying school fees."
It shouldn't matter that Cameron has this dubious lineage but the fact of that matter is that the Tories as well as Labour have transferred most of the wealth of the middle classes and poor to the mega-rich does indicate that he is the last person to clean up UK politics.
"In 1976, excluding property, the bottom half of the UK population owned 12% of the marketable wealth; by 2003 that had fallen to just 1%.In the same period, the share enjoyed by the top 10% rose from 57% to 71%.
Even when property is included, the bottom half of the population still only owns just 7% of the country’s wealth."
Heartening isn't it!
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http://www.respublica.org.uk/articles/spend-investment
Which is why we ask Hexham to vote Dr Steven Ford and the UK to vote Lib Dem.
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