Prime minister’s a product of the elite

Sir, – Here we are then, facing the fact that our PM has “no clothes on”, to be seen by all in our country as a downright liar. It’s as though we didn’t really know deep down he was this already, a liability to both Queen and country.

He has been shown to be thus over several years and posts he has held and been sacked from. With him it’s been self, self, self, irrespective of his denials and apologies, which are difficult to swallow then and now even more.

He is a product of his environment. The environment that sticks up two fingers to the rest of us, and sometimes it is the single finger salute, but it’s

not his fault, it is the system that creates an elite that thinks and acts like it is not governed by the same rules.

It’s a system that teaches and conditions one small section of society that being in this education route means they are better than the rest of society.

Some are genuinely gifted and receive bursaries, others are well supported and get promoted into this elite streaming by dint of the financial capability of their parents/grandparents.

It starts at fee-paying schools, that get tax breaks as they are “charities”, continues on into which higher education establishment you attend and what connections are made through university, otherwise

known as the old boys’ network.

It continues on oblivious of what the general public thinks and uses weasel words to create some wriggle room, or otherwise the behaviour is described as “being tight to the line” – and they don’t matter as we control the levers of power.

A typical validation of this is the Met Police chief Dame Cressida Dick’s failure to investigate previous breaches of Covid law.

Like Mr Djokovic, they should be banned from taking part, but just like Mr Djokovic, Mr Johnson will regretfully not face any further sanction.

Such is the dystopian government we in Scotland

are forced to endure. Alistair Ballantyne. Birkhill, Angus.