Boris Johnson: a history of absences & the exams fiasco
Boris Johnson has a history of disappearing at key moments. Thanks to the, er, Mail, we know he is in a £1500 a week cottage in Scotland with a tent pitched nearby (probably for show).
It is now reported that because the location is no longer secret Johnson has abandoned the holiday after 3 days.
Johnson managed to get into a dispute with local farmer Kenny Cameron who owns the land where Johnson pitched his tent and apparently lit a fire. Johnson had the landowners permission to do neither and was trespassing:
Usually if people want to go inside a fenced area, they ask for permission first, but I was not asked at all. It is only polite to ask.”
Mr Cameron claimed the PM and his fiancee had jumped his three-foot fence by placing two chairs from the cottage on either side.
The farmer said: “He could have put up his tent in the garden of the cottage and there would have been no problem – but he didn’t do that.”
Earlier Johnson was reported as having been on holiday for two weeks. As ever with Johnson’s absences the matter is less than clear
What he hasn’t done on this occasion is make any comment on the school exams fiasco of this week. Still putting up a tent is a time -consuming business.
Meanwhile Johnson has a history of absences
In the crucial weeks before March (2020) Boris Johnson did not attend any of the five virus meetings held by Cobra, the emergency committee, in January and February and spent 12 days out of the public eye while on a ‘working’ holiday at (Chevening) in Kent.
Sunday Times 19th April
James Griffin, then Professor of Classical Literature at Balliol…was tolerant of Boris’s absences and late or non-existent work
Sonia Purnell, Just Boris
Boris’s persistent absences meant that mistakes were made that a more meticulous editor might have avoided
Sonia Purnell on Johnson’s period as Editor of the Spectator
‘not for the first time..the cry went up: Where is Boris’.
Sonia Purnell on attempts to contact Johnson, Mayor of London, after the start of rioting in London on 6/7th August 2011
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