Oh Boris!

No, they’re not the first to ever act and live like this etc.

But the Oxford background tells us a lot about the leaders of the Tory brexiteers, who are actually now charged with running the country. It’s a very different background fomr the posh Nigel Farage, who didn’t go to Oxford but went straight into the City to become a stockbroker. Farage has a very different style, repulsive in a different way.

I don’t think they particularly fck things up. They don’t know what they’re doing – the tutorial style at Oxford where three or four students are pushed into a room to present an essay and defend the arguments against a (sometimes alcoholic) tutor reinforces the public school education of giving you great self-confidence to bullshyte your way though the most difficult questions tells you a lot about them.

But that doesn’t affect their fcking things up.

Churchill (public school but not Oxford), when he was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer in the early Middle Ages when I was a lad,  complained that he didn’t know the first thing about economics and wasn’t even good at counting. The PM’s reply was,that he had people to do that for him, and all he had to do was to provide the confidence and panache to fool people that he knew what he was doing.

So I don’t think they’re going to fck things up. I just think that they are having to manage something deeply fcked up which is going to end in tears for us all no matter what happens on Hallowe’en.