Excellent piece. All that is wrong essentially boils down to Johnson's utter contempt for "ordinary" people.
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In a 2019 interview with the Spectator Johnson said that the problem with the UK was: “loads of people in parts of… Oppidan Britain [having] a sense that their lives and their futures weren’t… important”. I thought that extremely telling. "Oppidan" essentially means "townie"
... or outside the elite. Johnson views the nation in public school terms. It's "us" the "elite" and "them" - "the townies". These things are firmly inculcated into the products of public schools. It's deep set.
See also Mogg and a whole host of them. The Palace of Westminster reinforces it. The building and the institutions are like a big public school. If you are Mogg or Johnson you can keep playing 6th form forever.
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