Ok, have I missed something here? One smug, patronising Tory tosspot gets an egg in the mush, while mocking protesters in Manchester and all of a sudden everyone’s acting like they’re the victims.

Oh boo hoo!

Those poor, hard-done-by Tories, not even allowed to lord it over the plebs, quaffing champagne and mocking the poor, without being singled out for vicious attacks with farm produce.

Personally I’d have gone for a brick, but there you go.

And this propensity for self-pity, faux outrage and indignation is catching. This week the head of Leicester Grammar School Chris King coined a new term: “Toffism.”

This he said was an irrational hatred of the privileged classes and the private school system.

Excuse me! There’s nothing irrational about my hatred of these parasites.

Critics of private schools should stop “indulging in toffism” and accept the “positive contribution” the independent sector can make to education, King told a conference of leading independent heads.

Not exactly a hard sell…

King, the new chairman of the elite grouping of 275 private schools, the Headmasters and Headmistresses Conference, claimed that it is “clearly absurd to blame the sector that educates 7 per cent of the population for the ills of the other 93 per cent”.

He went on: “I say to our critics: stop the politically charged, sterile rhetoric, which gets us nowhere. Stop indulging in toffism and out-of-date preconceptions about the nature of our schools.

“Above all, stop believing that you can make the weak stronger by making the strong weaker. Instead of carping, accept we want to make a positive contribution.”

All right posh boy, a few points. It’s that 7 per cent who have plundered 99 per cent of the wealth in this country, and are fast-tracked into Westminster careers despite, in many cases, being basically solid bone from the neck up.

That’s hardly an out-of-date preconception, because it’s still happening every year. And you boast about it.

Second, just listen to yourself man, branding critics “carpers” employing “sterile rhetoric” and then banging on about the “strong” and the “weak.”

This is not about strength and weakness it’s about the undeserving rich and the downtrodden poor.

If schools like Eton, Harrow and the like are such bastions of strength and nobility then why do they all have charitable status to allow them to avoid full taxation?

Not exactly what many people would consider a positive contribution to the nation.

Perhaps if you coughed up some of those taxes the state sector would not be on its knees while you lord it up and churn out the next generation of braindead self-entitled parasites.

King went on to pompously claim that private schools lead the way on issues such as “navigating the transition from school to university” — well that’s one way of describing letting pupils sit exams as many times as they want until they finally get a pass…

Other areas of excellence, he claimed, were in the fields of sport and, perhaps most bizarrely, young people’s mental health…

Ah yes of course! A child being dumped by its parents at the age of four to be raised in an institution which prides itself on ritualised bullying, sadistic violence and sexual assault is “character building.”

The fact that many of these children emerge dysfunctional, incapable of empathy and totally devoid of self-awareness — in short fully formed psychopaths — is merely a coincidence.

If you really want to know why the majority of people hate the public school system you only need look at the Tory Party conference. Strutting, chinless mouth-breathers and braindead bigots to a one.

The hilarious thing is that the Tories probably do see themselves as being persecuted and picked on.

They see everyone else as envious of their wealth and success because they are incapable of thinking any other way.

They’re avaricious and envious and therefore everyone else must be too.

The fact that someone might not want to screw over other people to ensure they’re richer than anyone else is beyond comprehension for these jackals.

So they sit there, safe behind their wall of steel and smirk as Osborne and Cameron sneer at the poor.

They give standing ovations when Theresa May, who took to the stage like a cross between Bette Davis in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane and Lady Macbeth, mocks starving refugees and claims immigrants have done nothing for the country.

And then they wonder why they’re despised.

If they think this is persecution they ain’t seen nothing yet.

It was Diderot who famously declared that man would not be free until the last king was strangled with the guts of the last priest.

Some have called this a trifle extreme. Personally I don’t think he went far enough.

Swap king for Tory and priest for banker and you’re off to a damn good start.