Boris Johnson: in his own words

Most of the criticisms of Boris Johnson focus on the things he says that he obviously doesn’t believe.  Here are some of the things it seems he does believe.

Greed is a valid motivator of economic progress.(Source)

The real divide is between the entire class of people now reposing their fat behinds on the green and red benches in the Palace of Westminster, and the bottom 20 per cent of society – the group that supplies us with the chavs, the losers, the burglars, the drug addicts and the 70,000 people who are lost in our prisons and learning nothing except how to become more effective criminals. (Source)

A combination of economic misfortune …  and an excessive predilection for welfarism have created a peculiar, and deeply unattractive, psyche among many Liverpudlians.(Source)

Single parents are responsible for “a generation of ill-raised, ignorant, aggressive and illegitimate children”. (Source)

It must be generally plausible that if having a baby out of wedlock meant sure-fire destitution on a Victorian scale, young girls might indeed think twice about having a baby. And yet no government – and certainly no Labour government – will have the courage to make the cuts in the safety net of the viciousness required to provide anything like such a deterrent. (Source)

Whatever you may think of the value of IQ tests, it is surely relevant to a conversation about equality that as many as 16% of our species have an IQ below 85 … while 2% have an IQ above 130 … And the harder you shake the pack, the easier it will be for some cornflakes to get to the top.(Source)

I don’t believe that economic equality is possible; indeed some measure of inequality is essential …  (Source)

Ipse dixit.

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