Alexandole Boris de Pfeffel Johnson

They’re both intelligent, in different ways, but govern similarly.

Johnson is the first prime minister to have read Classics at Oxford since MacMillan, and a knowledge of Aristotle and Cicero should help any politician govern. However, Johnson is not a details person and told the British public that before they elected him. He floats in the clouds and deals in the abstract, which is where his bluster serves him best, and then devolves responsibility for implementation to his ministers.

That type of governance depends on having capable ministers who understand their briefs and plenty of reserves to replace them with should they fail. As we have seen in recent weeks, though, that pool of reserves is evaporating in the summer sun, which means he simply has to remain loyal to those whom he has appointed, even when they are failing him. In turn, because he has to remain loyal to them and they cannot be replaced, public ire will increasingly turn on him and hold him responsible for every political failure.
 
Gabriel said:
They’re both intelligent, in different ways, but govern similarly.

Johnson is the first prime minister to have read Classics at Oxford since MacMillan, and a knowledge of Aristotle and Cicero should help any politician govern. However, Johnson is not a details person and told the British public that before they elected him. He floats in the clouds and deals in the abstract, which is where his bluster serves him best, and then devolves responsibility for implementation to his ministers.

That type of governance depends on having capable ministers who understand their briefs and plenty of reserves to replace them with should they fail. As we have seen in recent weeks, though, that pool of reserves is evaporating in the summer sun, which means he simply has to remain loyal to those whom he has appointed, even when they are failing him. In turn, because he has to remain loyal to them and they cannot be replaced, public ire will increasingly turn on him and hold him responsible for every political failure.
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The lack of depth on the tory benches is essentially what keeps him in power. The fact that someone like Liz Truss is a leading contender to replace him says it all. She is dead behind the eyes. Devoid of any character. Hopeless.
 
Gaudion M said:
The lack of depth on the tory benches is essentially what keeps him in power. The fact that someone like Liz Truss is a leading contender to replace him says it all. She is dead behind the eyes. Devoid of any character. Hopeless.
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It’s a situation of mutual dependency. They wouldn’t be where they are without his electoral appeal, and he wouldn’t be where he is without their continued support, which is why he will continue to curry favour with enough of his MPs to ensure that their level of support doesn’t drop to the point where he is removed.

The bigger question is how long the English electorate lend him their support. Much of what he says still appeals hugely to the English public (levelling up, reducing taxes, tackling immigration), and if enough of them think that his achievements (getting Brexit done and delivering vaccines) are evidence that he could yet be successful in those other areas, they may be willing to pay out more rope. However, if by 2024 those areas have not seen improvement, then that rope will be a noose.
 
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Gaudion M said:
The lack of depth on the tory benches is essentially what keeps him in power. The fact that someone like Liz Truss is a leading contender to replace him says it all. She is dead behind the eyes. Devoid of any character. Hopeless.
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And the fact she sounds like the voice of reason compared to JRM, and a genius compared to Dorries and Raab is ample demonstration of the complete lack of talent on the Conservative front bench, and why they are all 100% behind the fat fraud.
 
Gabriel said:
Not sure ‘fast track’ would be the best way of describing it, simply that elite schools are predominantly staffed by people who have been through the same system and know the type of questions that will be asked and how to answer them satisfactorily.

It’s also difficult to determine whether that interpretation of him relates to his academic ability, his personal behaviour, or a combination of both. One thing that is clear is that his Dons evidently felt he had failed to meet their expectations, and that has been a recurring theme.
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I tried for Cambridge in the early '80s. There was a choice of either being considered solely on A level grades or to take the Cambridge exam. I had 4 'A' grade A levels, but my school still pushed me towards the exam. I took the exam, but was not successful. This was the same year Prince Edward went to Cambridge with something like a 'C' and a 'D' grade. I wonder now whether the option to be considered on just A levels was really an option to enter based on school/background. Perpas my school understood this which is why they pushed me towards the exam despite my high grades.
 
Gabriel said:
They’re both intelligent, in different ways, but govern similarly.

Johnson is the first prime minister to have read Classics at Oxford since MacMillan, and a knowledge of Aristotle and Cicero should help any politician govern. However, Johnson is not a details person and told the British public that before they elected him. He floats in the clouds and deals in the abstract, which is where his bluster serves him best, and then devolves responsibility for implementation to his ministers.

That type of governance depends on having capable ministers who understand their briefs and plenty of reserves to replace them with should they fail. As we have seen in recent weeks, though, that pool of reserves is evaporating in the summer sun, which means he simply has to remain loyal to those whom he has appointed, even when they are failing him. In turn, because he has to remain loyal to them and they cannot be replaced, public ire will increasingly turn on him and hold him responsible for every political failure.
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The more intelligent students read PPE. :)

He would have been better off focusing on Socrates/Plato rather than Aristotle who was more of a scientist and was a disciple of Plato, who himself was a follower of Socrates.
 
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