[RockinRight]

For British conservatism to be as successful as American conservatism, they need to do more to shed the "aristocratic" image they tend to carry over there.

Kid Rock and Ted Nugent are Republicans. Have we ever heard that Jimmy Page or Joe Elliot turned out to be Tories?

[Winniesboy]

This image is very dated. The 'Tory Grandee' caricature really died with Thatcherism in the 1980s (and it was already on its last legs then). The prevailing image of the Thatcherite conservative was of a young, classless entrepreneur (typically caricatured by those not enamoured of the species as an estate agent from Essex).

[RightWingAtheist]

The only Tory celebs I can think of are Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tom Stoppard. Not exactly the Brit answers to Johnny Ramone.

[tjwmason]

For British conservatism to be as successful as American conservatism, they need to do more to shed the "aristocratic" image they tend to carry over there.

I disagree; both parties now are fundamentally middle-class. As is society as a whole.

Kid Rock and Ted Nugent are Republicans. Have we ever heard that Jimmy Page or Joe Elliot turned out to be Tories?

I've never heard of either Jimmy Page or Joe Elliot.

From what I've heard of him (admittedly not very much) I'll second your Sanford in '08.

[kaktuskid]

Howard is supposedly of Romanian (and Jewish) heritage.