When he was at school Boris Johnson was cast in the lead role in a production of Richard III. He didn't bother to learn his lines and took crib sheets which he hid about his person.
Now watch this.
Now watch this.
https://twitter.com/jude5456/status/1164285898080641025
At the time he so outraged and annoyed his headmaster that he failed to be elected head boy of Eton - or whatever they call head boys in that peculiar institution.
But he's fine to be Prime Minister of this once great country
But he's fine to be Prime Minister of this once great country
It's genuine. He's genuinely unprepared. Important that this is pointed out. Boris Johnson is not eccentric or charming. He's an ill prepared, privileged idiot making things up as he goes along. And cribbing off bits of paper.
Here's Stanley defending his son against accusations of buffoonery when he was elected London Mayor 
I also think the whole evil genius thing around Cummings is also overplayed. They're inept.
It was Richard II not Richard III. I keep correcting others on that. So I'm an idiot.
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