Thread by @shaunjlawson

As well as English, I teach Politics and History. I've just had a class with an extremely sharp 15-year-old Politics student. This week, we looked at the current shenanigans in Downing Street.

I started by checking he was up to date with the news, which he is. He's appalled.

Then I asked him: "What does it say about Britain that Boris Johnson managed to become Prime Minister?"

His answer: "It says that Britain has no self-respect".

I went on to explore Johnson's rise. And why he's been so wildly popular with so many.

I showed him the 'wiff-waff' speech from the Beijing 2008 closing ceremony. Which was laugh-a-minute. Afterwards, my student said:

"Well, I can understand why he's been so popular, but I cannot understand how someone like that is Prime Minister".

Then I showed him Eddie Mair's famous interview with Johnson, which he was staggered by. And then we discussed Brexit, and Theresa May's huge problems, and him becoming PM.

At length, we turned to this week. Prime Minister's Questions, to be exact. His takes as follows:

On watching the 'apology' at the beginning: "My God! He hasn't even taken responsibility for this!"

After watching the back and forth with Starmer: "He didn't answer a single question! About any of it!"

He was left rather bamboozled. Naturally so.

It's always a shock to those looking on when they realise just how corrupt and screwed up Britain truly is.

Of course, I never tell students that. I just let them figure it out for themselves. Which apparently, is well beyond a very large proportion of Britons.