edgeworthy wrote:I seriously don't know where the idea the Boris Johnson is a member of the aristocracy comes from?
Simple. He's in charge, comfortable with flyaway hair, has the ability to pull an entire speech out of six words on a napkin (apocryphal but probably true story by a female columnist who attended a meal where they both did speeches) and, as stated above, has attended Eton.
While he's a prime example of "Upper Middle-class done good", he's also a Tory and thus according to his most vociferous critics, he has to be a "Damned Aristo" as nothing else fits into their worldview.
It will probably be claimed as being retroactively true since Boris is likely to be ennobled (once he leaves No 10) for seeing the UK through the Covid Crisis and taking the risks that led to the UK being one of the world-leaders in regards to Vaccine development and deployment.