MONMOUTH School Head, Dr Steven Connor, stepped into the often controversial world of politics when he gave his report to this year's annual speech day. In a detailed speech, he said: "In a moment of unparalleled hypocrisy the bon viveur and politician Boris Johnson was allegedly devastated to find that Ken Livingston had left behind a mere 100 bottles of Chateauneuf de Pape at the GLC. This is Labour sleaze no doubt. "An MP best known as a game show host has now become a major political leader and wishes to grab the moral high ground. It is always impressive how our political leaders are able to learn from history – Charles Kennedy also a former regular on Have I Got News for You having made such a success of high office recently. "So Boris the tousle haired Old Etonian with very little experience of leading anything, apart from a raid on the buns in matron's office when he was at school, is now in charge of a multi-billion pound operation at the heart of this country's good name and fortune. "More and more as I reflect on the continually changing parade of fresh faced whizz kid graduates who come and go at the top of our political parties and who by default will end up one day as ministers in charge of us all; more and more I wonder what training have they had to fit them for the leadership of a country, what experience of having to make a profit when leading a major business on which the livelihoods of thousands of employees depend have they had. "The answer is usually none – the majority have come straight from university into public life, possibly via some strenuous work in PR or marketing. Which accounts for the proliferation of the unsubstantiated one-liners of which so many of our politicians are enamoured. "As Henry Kissinger put it "It's too bad that 90% of our politicians give the other 10% a bad name". Gordon Brown is of course a great man of principle who has told the country that when he goes to the polls he will stand on his record – which is one way of making sure we can't see it! "As one political commentator wryly put it recently he has the almost unique misfortune in modern times of being a politician who as Prime Minister has to live with the consequences of his own policies. "In days of yore people went into politics after establishing a great reputation as a businessman, a diplomat or an intellectual. People of substance who had achieved something by running major organisations and they brought that great experience to the work they would do on behalf of their country".
