Boris the nutter

Anyone with a "smartphone" or "tablet" can access language courses.

What tosh Granny - he’s the PM, telling primary school aged children not to get drunk at university is just puerile, and the Latin comment shows just how out of touch he is with the education system. He should really should stop trying to emulate the other blonde idiot in power over the pond.

Kids don’t call them “smartphone” or “tablet” and they certainly don’t use them to learn Latin off their own bat

15% of state schools [I've just read but it was an old report...].

He said “I did nothing except Latin and Greek for about 20 years and now I’m running the country. It’s a perfect education.”

He probably should have learned what ‘running the country’ means in English first before he started with the Latin and Greek

Most Universities do not spend time on Latin.

It's hilarious the way people will defend this person, really.

I am not a Boris Johnson fan, just cannot see what is wrong with learning Latin (if available) as it is still widely used across many specialties (medicine, science, botany etc).

There is nothing wrong with learning Latin, per se, but its importance for 99.9% of professions is probably zilch!

You may not be a fan GG, but you do jump in fairly quickly to defend him.

There is nothing wrong per se in learning Latin but its a fairly niche thing these days.

Had anybody else said it......some leftie for example, the comment would not have gone down so well.

I think you needed to be there in the classroom to really 'get' what he said to the schoolchildren.

I have never learned Latin. I do wonder what I missed out on by not being able to do so. All learning is good.

Especially at a young age.

I took Latin and Greek but have never aspired to run the country. I can't see why a classical education should be relevant to a career in politics. Thatcher was a chemist and few PMs in modern times have been classicists.

As most “lefties” send their children to fee paying schools I imagine they are being taught Latin.......ironic really??

Yeah - they now know that the PM frittered his university education, got drunk far too often but by dint of his very privileged background he rose up through the ranks of the Tory party to become the puppet of Dominic Cummings.

As you say - all learning is good and he’s confirmed what most of us think of him.

Sorry that was to lessismore

Last October, Bullingdon Club members were banned from holding positions in the Oxford University Conservative Association. The association’s president, Ben Etty, said the club’s “values and activities had no place in the modern Conservative party”.

In recent years, membership has reportedly dwindled to a handful as today’s undergraduates shun an organisation with a toxic reputation.

The woman who recruited members in Oxford in the 1980s said that she was horrified at the prospect of Johnson becoming prime minister.

“The characteristics he displayed at Oxford – entitlement, aggression, amorality, lack of concern for others – are still there, dressed up in a contrived, jovial image. It’s a mask to sanitise some ugly features.”

Most “lefties” send their children to fee paying schools

Have you got a link to that statistic?

Ugh! This thread is summing up everything that's 'orrible about Gransnet.

Oh yes, all the lefties send their kids to fee paying schools, that'll be right.

Just Google Labour MPs

Oh - so not most Lefties then, you just mean some Labour MPs?

Lessismore posted the “leftie” comment I was just responding.

I do actually know at least two left leaning families who send their children to fee paying schools ( they proudly call themselves champagne socialists)

I know, I saw her post which mentioned the uproar there would have been if a leftie had come out with the nonsense that BJ did today. It was you who asserted that “most lefties send their children to fee paying schools” and I was fascinated to see the stats which showed that (in addition to the 2 people you know personally)

SirChenjin I am just tired of this whole thread, anyone who reads /watches news knows that people from all walks of life send their children to fee paying schools, some sacrifice other things to do so.

Perhaps I am not argumentative/combative enough for the political threads.

GG13
I do actually know at least two left leaning families who send their children to fee paying schools [...]

And I know several lifelong Tory voters who live on benefits, yet fail to see the irony. Your point was???