Trenton Oldfield: Liberal Twit

Trenton Oldfield - liberal twit - stands trial for bringing the Oxford-Cambridge boat race to a halt, in his protest against 'elitism'.

This moron, along with his Indian girlfriend, is a founder of an organization called 'This is not a gateway'. Some kind of horrendous neo-liberal collective of blacks, gays, hermaphrodites and assorted human detritus.

Take a look through some of their photo galleries to see examples of how evolutionary unfitness is the bedrock of liberal decay:
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You couldn't make this shit up:

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Since Oldfield was wearing a wetsuit, it was clear his action had been carefully planned. Deepa’s tweet also drew attention to Oldfield’s blog, “Elitism Leads To Tyranny”.

“This is a protest, an act of civil disobedience, a methodology of refusing and resistance,” he had written prior to his stunt. “This act has employed guerrilla tactics. I am swimming into the boats in the hope I can stop them from completing the race.”

Oldfield, who went to school in Australia and studied “contemporary urbanism” at the London School of Economics, a pretty elitist institution these days, compared himself with Emily Davison.

She was the suffragette who threw herself under the king’s horse at the Epsom Derby on June 4, 1913, and died of her injuries four days later.

He pointed out that “this reach (of the Thames) is also the site of a number of past and present elitist establishments; Fulham Palace, Chiswick House and St Paul’s Schools and a large collection of other ‘independent/public/free schools’. It is also where Nick Clegg, leader of the Liberal Democrats and deputy Prime Minster of the government, lives with his family, despite his constituents living hundreds of miles away in post-industrial Sheffield.”

Deepa, who shares an East End flat with her boyfriend, says that “This Is Not A Gateway” is “a not-for-profit organisation that creates platforms for critical investigations into cities”.

She claims to be an “artist” who “continues to explore a set of questions that have resulted from her interest in post-colonial theory, the intersection of cultural movements and legal systems, critical art practice and alternative pedagogies”.

The president of the Oxford University Boat Club Karl Hudspith wrote on Twitter: “My team went through seven months of hell, this was the culmination of our careers and you took it from us.”

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Trenton Oldfields priviledged education:

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With fees in excess of £15,000 a year, Shore – as his former school is affectionately known – is regarded as one of Australia’s leading and most exclusive private schools.

The country’s former Prime Minister John Howard chose to educate his two sons there and other notable alumni include Australia’s former Conservative Prime Minister Sir John Gorton and other leading figures from the worlds of business and politics.

Boasting a proud sporting tradition, Shore has an enviable reputation as one of Australia’s top rowing schools and Mr Oldfield was a leading crew member during his time there.

But despite initially taking full advantage of his privileged start in life, the ardent political campaigner now claims it was his experiences at the much celebrated school that ignited his long held opposition to elitism in society.

Now taking every opportunity to rail against the inequity of private education Mr Oldfield has rejected the opportunities his schooling afforded him.

But according to some of his contemporaries, his opinions were not always quite so radical.

One former class mate claimed he so right-wing as a teenager that he lodged a formal complained when a teacher showed students footage of Sydney’s gay and lesbian Mardi Gras march.

By the age of 17 however his values had clearly undergone something of a transformation and he left the school in favour of completing his studies at a liberal, vocational college called Bradfield.

At the time he claimed he disagreed with his Shore’s ethos of promoting personal and academic excellence.

He said: “I was suffocating at my old school because the teachers and parents were more interested in creating an image – but not my kind of image. The school was mass producing yuppies.”

He added: “I was fighting the system to retain my individuality. I used to study because I had to, but now I love learning. And the teachers would have to be the best in the State.”

He later studied at Sydney University before moving to the UK in 2001 where he enrolled at the London School of Economics completing an MSc in Contemporary Urbanism – examining the social and cultural impact of modern cities.

He still maintained a relationship with his family, having lived in the house owned by his father, Ross Oldfield, an engineer and multiple property owner, in Hornsby Heights in Sydney's north west.

Working for various urban renewal and environmental organisations, Mr Oldfield was involved in the Thames Strategy group which looked after a stretch of the river close to where the Boat Race takes place.

Former colleagues painted a picture of a man affected by family but who wanted to make a difference.

One said: “He came across as a very bright chap, highly intelligent with an academic air about him.

“I think there were difficulties in his life (once). There seemed to be something he was dealing that was hanging over him and overshadowed him.

“It might have something like a parent’s divorce, things that we are all liable to.”

He added: “He wasn’t the happiest of chaps when I knew him but it wasn’t the most important thing that I remember. But there wasn’t anything I can remember that would point to why he did it.

“It is a bit of a mystery why he said what he did. The whole thing doesn’t make sense.

“I worry he is going through some breakdown phase.”

He continued: “The incident yesterday did not really seem to me to correlate with the chap I knew. That chap I knew was professional, career driven and quite intellectual.”

Defending his actions at the Boat Race on Twitter yesterday, as thousands of angry protesters bombarded him with messages, Mr Oldfield said: “Having been deep within elite institutions I have a very good understanding of them. I protest their injustices – ask anyone that knows me.”

In another comment he posted: “75 per cent of judges, 70 per cent of finance directors, 45 per cent of top civil servants and 32 per cent of MPs have been privately educated. (Cabinet Office 2009).”

He added: “The advice has always been 'fight from within’. So I have – that includes LSE, RSA whatever. Was that bad advice I was given?”

There was no sign of Mr Oldfield last night at the £350,000 flat in East London he shares with his girlfriend.

The flat, in a 1930s building lies in a conservation area close to the internationally renowned Whitechapel Art Gallery and popular Spitalfields Market.

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Cases like Oldfield are fascinating simply because for some reason they did not fit in with their peer group, and so now manufacture an identity at odds with it, including gathering around themselves a collection of multiracial friends to complete the illusion, even an Indian girlfriend who is simply another vehicle to cementing this fake self-image.

There's no way to deal with this spoilage other than to become even more elitist.
When illness is on the rise, best you head for the hills....up....up....where the air remains cool and fresh.

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Boat Race protester Trenton Oldfield ordered to leave UK. Australian activist, whose wife is expecting a child this week, will appeal against Home Office ruling that he must leave country

The Australian activist who disrupted the 2012 Oxford v Cambridge Boat Race in protest at government cuts has been ordered to leave the country, after receiving a six-month jail term that many thought was severe.

Trenton Oldfield, whose British wife is expecting a child this week and who has lived in the UK for more than 10 years, has had his application for a spousal visa refused. The Home Office informed the 37-year-old that his continued presence in Britain would not be "conducive to the public good" after he swam in front of the crews during the 158th Boat Race on the Thames.

Oldfield, who was given a six-month jail term and served two months in Wormwood Scrubs, told the Guardian he had appealed. "No one was expecting this. I have a tier one visa, as a highly skilled migrant, and I was sentenced to less than a year. The lawyer said I had nothing to worry about because it was less than a year. It feels to me that this is a very vindictive decision, very political and very much an overreaction."

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