To be outraged that Boris Johnson has the unmitigated gall to talk about anyone else..

[seeker]

...having an excessive sense of entitlement?

OP, why are you outraged? I don't think I understand, is it because Boris Johnson comes from a privileged background so shouldn't be allowed to comment on anyone with less money?

Tony Benn had pots of money and plenty of views on people with less. He may have been barkin' (opinions differ widely), but at least he noticed that not everyone with less money than he had was naughty. And he even had a title, so there.

I don't think Cameron is a fraud. He has never tried to hide his background or his personal fortune.

YABU... everyone's entitled to free speech, regardless of their background.

I gave Tony Benn a lift once from Kings Cross to Wimbledon in my beige Fiat Panda

Come on scottishmummy - we all know it's ok to be a rich privileged lefty, droning on about how terrible it is for the poor disadvantaged from the comfort of their 10 million pound house in the Cotswolds ( children all at private school of course )
it's only a crime being rich if you're a Tory - keep up.

Is it Tony Benn or the beige Fiat Panda that impressed you most Annie?

Actually I don't know whether I'm more impressed at you giving him a lift, or him either needing or accepting one in a Fiat Panda. Not just any Fiat Panda even, but a beige one. Absolutely no irony intended; it's just so great, somehow.

The best bit is that I was taking him to a miners' rally in Wimbledon because SW19 is a well-known mining community

I have no problem with him being rich or a Tory or expressing his opinions.It is this particular opinion that I am objecting to. The upper classes in this country take a sense of entitlement to a whole new level- criticising another social class in this way is a textbook case of pots calling kettles black!

thats lot of words,minimal content
so iyo,being loaded means cant comment globally?so only incisive comments are the disaffected?riots did not affect me at all .dont live in affected areas.but hell i have an opinion on it

Yes but seeker - if poor people want to revolt against tyranny they should be protesting outside government buildings - not robbing Foot Locker and JD Sports - it kinda detracts from their cause -

The fraudulent one is Nick Clegg; neither Cameron nor Boris J pretend to be anything other than who and what they are. Boris has a very different job to the PM and the deputy PM and is much closer to the ground, by definition. Which might make him appear more "in touch", but I don't think that is more than the different natures of the jobs.

Free country...he can say what he likes.
Still doesn't change the fact that he is a bumbling plank.

I have a lot of sympathy for the looters and their choice of revolt...

Bonsoir I think "shopping with violence" has been the best descrption of the looting, not "revolt". Revolt sounds like it was motivated by something other than greed and opportunism. Which it wasn't.

Why shouldn't everyone get a chance at greed and opportunism, rather than reserving that privilege for bankers and politicians-- the self-styled ruling classes?

You have sympathy for the looters? Personally, I have sympathy for their innocent victims.

OP, YANBU. At all.

He comes from a very rich background, went to Eton and Oxford, and is criticising people on benefits for having a 'sense of entitlement'.

If you can't see anything wrong with this, you are barmy.

In fact, you can be Boris' number one fan, and still see the hypocrisy in this comment.

Yup. Bankers and politians just get handed those jobs. They don't have to work for them at all.

And one person behaving illegally / unethically means its ok for someone else to do it.

Raises hand - i can't see the hypocrisy of the comment.

No, they don't get handed those jobs - they grab them and the larceny that goes on among the élite is extraordinary. No wonder others end up following their example.

Wasn't Boris a member of the Bullingdon Club at university? That lot of posh yobs who enjoyed smashing up restaurants but got away with it because they could afford to pay for the damage they caused, and their Daddies were rich and powerful?

increased opportunities and challenging class expectations and know your place is a good start helping and encouraging people from poorer backgrounds into employment and education

and cleggy and cameron do annoy me.more so clegg.the media schmoozing and faux ordinariness

i do like Ms Gonzalez Durantez.Keeping working and not being dolly wife.good thing shes still working,be useful when nick isnt working