Boris Johnson graffiti (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
We never were a meritocracy as Dr Alf knows all too well, too many people are appointed on the basis of being Oxbridge educated or “jolly good chaps” and just 7% of Times 1000 CEOs are women versus about 22% for the Fortune 500 in America.
The mendacious, the ineffective, the wilful and the stupid are in charge and lead gilded lives.
What happened with Boris is symptomatic of a broader and more pervasive malaise afflicting society generally in which the more lies you tell, the more mistakes you make, the better you do.
In his case I was taken in by his ability to schmooze and not upset the Chinese and others that David Cameron upset and I began to like what Michael Gove was doing when he was an education Minister.
Now I have come to change my view in line with Dr Alf’s but for different reasons.
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