SUNDAY 25 AUGUST 2019As ever Johnson shows us a
masterclass in arrogance
When looking at the photo of Boris Johnson with his feet up on the Elysee Palace
furniture, I was seeing a product from one element of Britain’s education system.
The one that develops national leaders who will represent the country and present
an image to the world.All those years of prep school, Eton and Oxford have clearly paid off because he now thinks he knows how
to behave when visiting an important international figure in a significant public building.
Is Macron pointing to the floor and saying that in France it is more a la mode to place the foot on the floor?
If so, then he is being studiously ignored.
It just typifies an arrogant attitude to other countries and suggests that we will get an appropriate response
when we want something from them.
John Daines Cheshire
If a visitor, who I had never met before, came into my house and slouched in a proffered seat and put his
foot on my coffee table I would be outraged. How is it possible that our prime minister – a man that
represents my country – thinks this is acceptable behaviour?
Peter Coleman Kent
How is it possible that our prime minister
thinks this is acceptable behaviour? (Reuters)The best we can hope for post-Brexit is literal rubbish
Given the regular predictions of a “glorious future” after we leave the EU, with or without a deal, have we