Boris Johnson is a fast writer. This is a handy talent because it allows him, as he puts it in his own words, to ‘knock off’ a couple of newspaper articles on a Sunday morning before he does the chores – all without impinging on the time he dedicates to his day job of being the Mayor Of London. (£140,000 pa) The moonlighting gig with the Telegraph pays him an extra £250,000 a year - a figure Boris dismisses as 'chicken-feed'.
Of course it’s reassuring that Boris can tell us that this sideline doesn’t mean that the London electorate is being short-changed in anyway. Although it does seem a little mean-spirited that he should at the same time begrudge tube drivers wanting more than £38,000pa for anti-social shift work. Or that he opposed tube cleaners getting the London Living Wage of £7.45 an hour. Of course he derided these workers as ‘dinosaurs’ living in the past and making ‘ludicrous’ claims.
But it's most reassuring of all that old Etonian Tories like Boris turn out not to be lovable buffoons masking an erudite intelligence with populist appeal but are actually just over-privileged and arrogant arseholes with nothing but contempt for the working class.
Of course it’s reassuring that Boris can tell us that this sideline doesn’t mean that the London electorate is being short-changed in anyway. Although it does seem a little mean-spirited that he should at the same time begrudge tube drivers wanting more than £38,000pa for anti-social shift work. Or that he opposed tube cleaners getting the London Living Wage of £7.45 an hour. Of course he derided these workers as ‘dinosaurs’ living in the past and making ‘ludicrous’ claims.
But it's most reassuring of all that old Etonian Tories like Boris turn out not to be lovable buffoons masking an erudite intelligence with populist appeal but are actually just over-privileged and arrogant arseholes with nothing but contempt for the working class.
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