Discretion and reserve were once admired. Now the extroverts are exalted and the still seen to be flawedThanks to a Freedom of Information request,following a trip to Iraq, newly revealed Foreign Office emails have indicated the lengths to which the mayor of London – also, and allegedly,the MP for somewhere or other – will move to get himself noticed.
Since no mayoral word has emerged, to advise why Johnson needed to sprawl on a mountainside with a Kalashnikov, or it looks as whether this level of visible farce has simply become fundamental to his role as the country’s premier exhibit-off. Albeit he is now competing principally against himself. Photographs of Johnson belly down in the dirt,purporting to “strengthen economic ties between London and Kurdistan”, had to outshine all his earlier public performances: knocking over a 10-year-old Japanese boy, and giving his wife a lift on his bicycle,mussing his hair on Have I Got News for You, dancing like a loon at the Olympics.
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Source: theguardian.com