Johnson up before the beak.

...and we get the bill.

Pearls before swine.

I’ve made my views about him fairly clear. I don’t propose to repeat them. I’ve had the dubious pleasure of meeting him, once professionally, once by pure chance. On both occasions i chose not to shirk what those who know me describe as my ability to speak truth to power.

He is a product of his upbringing. He was almost born to expect to be given power, to rule, almost.

But i say you underestimate one aspect of him.

You say he fooled the whole country into thinking he has a brain.

Suggesting a lack of intelligence or common sense or worse.

From my experience of him i say either you don’t mean that, or are sadly mistaken. First and foremost if you hadn’t already worked it out, the buffoonery you see throughout his sessions at the podium whilst Mayor is absolutely, entirely, an act.

My impression of him from my chance encounter might throw some insight. During the EU Referendum campaign i worked for a company that handled all the London Underground Service emails. His battle bus pulled up to campaign in the town square right by me and he got out. No minders, no journalists. In the brief moments before they disembarked i asked for a moment of his time, said i was going to vote leave, had been a mere month or so too young to vote in Wilsons Referendum so had waited 40 years for this chance… BUT, i said, that LIE on YOUR bus makes you the REMAIN campaign’s greatest asset, can you not SEE that ?

His response rather astounded me. He said he knew it was wrong, that it was a mistake, and a stupid one, but it was one they must now live with and work with.

It was as if he was a victim of circumstance.

He said the same to one of the news reporters that interviewed him on TV. I heard him say it. But i never heard him say it again. I guess Cummings briefed him not to.

Like you, i have ‘dipped into’ the footage of him at the enquiry

Well, one tiny part of it. I wonder if you saw it.

It was a ten maybe fifteen seconds long piece of dialogue

He spoke of when he was lying in Intensive care

He said ‘there were a number of people there with him, and many were about his age, some even younger, and it seemed pretty clear to him that some of them were going to make it, and some quite clearly were not.

I wonder if you saw that ….