Boris the nutter

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

Just Google Labour MPs

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

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

Most “lefties” send their children to fee paying schools

Have you got a link to that statistic?

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.”

Sorry that was to lessismore

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.

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

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.

Especially at a young age.

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.

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.

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

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).

Most Universities do not spend time on Latin.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Grammar Schools, most sixth forms and Universities.

How many children are able to learn latin these days, I wonder?

Sound advice, not drinking.

Learning Latin, nothing wrong with that as it is the base for many modern day languages, plant names, medicinal terms etc. etc!

His advice was to not waste their university years getting drunk and to learn latin

Please tell me that’s not true??