An overprivileged child.
Went to a school that taught him to be entitled and superior.
Used privilege and contacts to get on.
Learnt to lie and get away with it.
Became a cunning conman chancer.
Fooled a portion of the public.
Stabbed everyone in the back.
Put his ambition before that of the country.
Made a mess of everything.
Dithered and blathered.
Made a packet.
Got kicked out!!
Opher, Johnson went to Eton as a King’s Scholar. At that stage of his career (13), that means he was (supposedly) in the top 0.1% intellectually. At least. You can look up the list of King’s Scholars on Wikipedia, but they include some more than decent people – like George Orwell. Johnson’s family were rich enough that he could have gone there anyway without a scholarship. So, I’m wondering whether the scholarship was rigged? Why not Etongate, or Scholarshipgate, to add to all the others?
And I know about these things. I myself had a similar scholarship, which took me to Marlborough College. Though, prosaically, it was funded by Hampshire County Council. But in time, I rejected the establishment. I like to say, they tried to create another Freeman Dyson, but what they got was another John Locke. I had the nous to work out right and wrong, and to put them ahead of politics. Johnson didn’t.
Etongate has a good ring to it Neil! If that clown is in the top 0.1% then heaven help us!!