Bullingdon Club Member Gets in Punch-Up with Ex-Girlfriend's New Admirer

Or at least that is the headline the Daily Mail ran on Feb 21st, 2011. All the papers carried some version of it, deeming it noteworthy because of the slim association with the Prime Minister and Mayor of London via the Bullingdon Club.

This is a bit of unashamed tabloid journalism, that I edited from several sources, adding italics and images. What are we to make of this?
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Mr Nick Green, member of the Bullingdon Club 2011

"A leading light of the notorious Bullingdon Club at Oxford University has been detained by police after an alleged assault on a fellow student in a row over a girl. Witnesses said Old Etonian Nick Green, wearing the dining club’s trademark £1,200 tailcoat, was led away in handcuffs following the fracas outside a nightclub. The alleged victim, Mr Etiene Ekpo Utip, was so seriously injured that an ambulance took him to the city’s John Radcliffe hospital.Police ordered medics to stand back until it was safe for them to enter the street to treat the 22-year-old. Mr Green, a friend of Princess Beatrice, was not arrested or charged with any offence. Police said the alleged victim did not want to take the matter further. Mr Green and Mr Ekpo Utip were said to have fallen out last Friday over the affections of student Miranda Gilbert. A friend of 22-year-old Miss Gilbert said: ‘Nick is Miranda’s ex-boyfriend. They dated in the first year, but she broke it off. ‘Since then, he has kept on at her, and he was not happy when she started a friendship with Etiene.’

Mr Etiene Ekpo Utip, Oxford student 2011

South African student, Mr Ekpo Utip featured in Tatler magazine's 200 Sexiest Singles and was a former prefect at Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School in Hertfordshire.

He is studying at Pembroke College, Oxford, and has starred in several university drama productions, including a well-reviewed 'Romeo & Juliet'












Bullingdon Club member, Mr Nick Green – declares himself a Facebook fan of his Bullingdon Club predecessors David Cameron and Boris Johnson –

A university source claimed: ‘On Thursday night, there was a big club night in Oxford. Nick Green was with his Bullingdon friends and went up to his ex-girlfriend and they had a big disagreement. Inside the club, threats were made to the victim.’Tensions continued outside, with Mr Ekpo Utip allegedly being subjected to a verbal and physical assault.At some point during the evening, the front window of Mr Green’s student house was smashed.

A neighbour reported: ‘The police came and I saw a man being handcuffed and put into the back of the police car and then driven away. He was a posh boy, wearing a long elegant-looking jacket.’

The Bullingdon Club achieved notoriety over its privileged members trashing restaurants and leaving large sums of cash to pay for the damage.

Other former members include Chancellor George Osborne and Earl Spencer.

GEORGE OSBORNE, Chancellor of the Exchequer 2011