“Don’t be fooled… Boris only cares about Boris.”

A set of images compiled by Labour activist Matt Thomas eloquently conveys the lie of Boris Johnson’s attempt to cast himself as ‘man of the people’ defending the votes of leavers.

Thomas’s tweet accompanying the images points out the indisputable: that those who know him well are clear that his life has been saturated with privilege and old-school-tie connections:

Everyone who's known Boris Johnson, from school teachers, to colleagues, to even his own family, admit his whole life was about a sense of entitlement.



Don't be fooled into thinking he has the country's best interests at heart. Boris only cares about Boris. pic.twitter.com/uJ1rXq9Qwy — Matt Thomas (@Trickyjabs) September 29, 2019

Johnson studied, for example, at Balliol College in Oxford, where his godfather was ‘Master’ and vice-principal of the whole university. And those connections and ‘free rides’ – as everyone who knew him well confirms – with towering sense of entitlement that would infuriate the working class people he is trying to court if they realised it.

“Ok, I said to myself as I sighted the bird down the end of the gun. This time, my fine feathered friend, there is no escape.” Grouse-hunter Johnson in 2001

Johnson’s public persona is a constructed façade – and his ‘man of the people’ shtick is a sham.

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