Re: Coronavirus: I trust people's sense on face masks - Gove
Originally Posted by
Muddy
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Hevens above these old Etonians live on another planet .
Surprisingly, Gove was born a bastard:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Gove#Early_life
Graeme Logan was born on 26 August 1967. His biological mother was a 23-year-old cookery demonstrator. Gove born in a maternity hospital in Fonthill Road, Aberdeen, and put into care soon after he was born. At the age of four months he was adopted by a Labour-supporting couple in Aberdeen, Ernest and Christine Gove, by whom he was brought up.
Gove was educated at two state schools (Sunnybank Primary School and Kittybrewster Primary School), and later, on the recommendation of his primary school teacher, he sat and passed the entrance exam for the independent Robert Gordon's College. Later, as he entered the sixth form he had to apply for a scholarship as his family fell on difficult economic circumstances.
So far, so laudable .....
But then, the fateful meeting:
From 1985 to 1988 he read English at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, graduating with an upper second. During his first year, he met future Prime Minister Boris Johnson and helped him become elected President of the Oxford Union. Gove was elected as President of the Oxford Union a year after Johnson.
Unsurprisingly, Johnson does come from a very privileged (and colourful) background, including Eton and Oxford with a father who, amongst other things, took part in the Marco Polo Expedition of 1961. Johnson himself joined the Old Etonian-dominated Bullingdon Club, an exclusive drinking society notorious for acts of vandalism .....