Trashing the Country

 

Rowena Mason  in the Guardian writes, “The decision to set out an ambition to reopen schools and some shops in June and some hospitality venues in July – without the epidemic in care homes and hospitals yet under control – also shows Boris Johnson has also been swayed by the hawks in his cabinet.’

 

I wouldn't give the man credit for anything more than being swayed by a personality shaped by membership of  the Bullingdon Club in Oxford forty years ago. 

 

Harriet Sherwood interviewed a woman in The Guardian who recruited members to the Bullingdon Club at Oxford in the 1980s when Boris Johnson was a member. 

 

The woman said: “The whole culture was to get extremely drunk and exert vandalism. Every time someone was elected, they had to have their room smashed to pieces. People talk about the Bullingdon Club ‘trashing’ places, but it was serious criminal damage.”  

 

One former member told The Daily Beast how they sprayed the walls of the room of the person they were initiating into membership with champagne, tearing photographs, and cutting up mattresses. 

 

An 'initiate' classmate of Johnson told how he endured the ritual. At the end of it, he shook Johnson’s hand, was congratulated and told, "you have been chosen.” 

 

“We always hired whores,” he added, “but there is not really much point in hiring a prostitute if you consume two bottles of champagne.”

Today as Prime Minister, Johnson is exerting vandalism on a far greater scale and trashing the whole country. In following the 'hawks' he is no longer spraying walls with champagne, but our lives with death. 

 

How many of you are happy to have been ‘chosen’?

 

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