"Boris sometimes seems affronted when criticised for what amounts to a gross failure of responsibility," his teacher Martin Hammond wrote of the 17-year-old Boris. "I think he honestly believes it is churlish of us not to regard him as an exception, one who should be free of the network of obligation which binds everyone else."
... and he still holds that belief.
I may be wrong, but while he was quick with self congratulation on what he saw as his achievements, I don't think I heard him apologise once for the Owen Paterson fiasco, wallpapergate, getting paralytic at Lebedevs villa, Partgate, Blowjobgate, and now Gropegate.
He churlishly had a go at members of his own Party - the Herd- who brought around his downfall.
He still doesn't get it. I think his former teacher should get a Nobel prize for sussing him out so early.
I've worked with a few senior national politicians over the years, some Labour, but mostly Tories, and including 1 Prime Minister. Without exception, and regardless of party I found them to be honest, courteous, professional and most of all people of high morals and integrity.
They dealt with national and international crises as great, if not greater than Covid and Ukraine without flinching, or blowing their own trumpets.
Maybe I chose carefully, but both before, during and after office they displayed and upheld those principles to this day.
Can anyone come on here, and say that Johnson could be even considered to be included in that bracket ?
... and he still holds that belief.
I may be wrong, but while he was quick with self congratulation on what he saw as his achievements, I don't think I heard him apologise once for the Owen Paterson fiasco, wallpapergate, getting paralytic at Lebedevs villa, Partgate, Blowjobgate, and now Gropegate.
He churlishly had a go at members of his own Party - the Herd- who brought around his downfall.
He still doesn't get it. I think his former teacher should get a Nobel prize for sussing him out so early.
I've worked with a few senior national politicians over the years, some Labour, but mostly Tories, and including 1 Prime Minister. Without exception, and regardless of party I found them to be honest, courteous, professional and most of all people of high morals and integrity.
They dealt with national and international crises as great, if not greater than Covid and Ukraine without flinching, or blowing their own trumpets.
Maybe I chose carefully, but both before, during and after office they displayed and upheld those principles to this day.
Can anyone come on here, and say that Johnson could be even considered to be included in that bracket ?