All shook up

Boris 'The Animal' Johnson's speech at the Centre for Policy Studies, a thinktank co-founded by Margaret Thatcher and Sir Keith Joseph - a man who believed that the deltas and epsilons ("social classes 4 and 5") of society excessively bred lowering the IQ stock of the population - shows he still has a chip on his shoulder for getting a 2:1 at Classics at Oxford whereas David Cameron got a 1st in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE).  He has dismissed Cameron in the past as just a swot to make up for his own failings, a strange exaltation of English anti-intellectualism given his speech (but when did BoJo make sense?  He also confuses aspiration with greed).
It has been said by those on the right that BoJo is articulating 'what we are thinking' and on the 'spiritual right right' and the left as a rallying cry defending an unequal order, that is far from meritocratic.  But I think that underlying it is a deeper insecurity, further adduced by his metaphor that by shaking a packet of cornflakes, the easier it will for some to get to the top i.e. a small tinkering here or there but nothing much towards lowering a ladder to the able.  He obviously sees of himself that, no matter his academic achievements, he will get to the top because of his IQ (let's not wallow on all the benefits he had to allow him and his ilk to alight there).
The cornflakes analogy is worthless, even as a bit of colour because shaking such a box is not a natural activity past the age of three, risks a spillage and some of those with high IQ will sink to the bottom, while some incredibly thick people will rise to the top.  His thumbing of his nose to social mobility is not attractive - a kid with a poor inner-city background and familial breakdown will not have the same IQ as another kid in an affluent, stable family because intellectual quotient tests ignore the barriers to mental acquisition and are not in any way a clue to what we have when we are born.  BoJo seems to think otherwise and that this natural order cannot be changed.
This argument was most cruelly skewered when a 58-year old Japanese man found out that his parents and brothers were not biologically linked and that the midwife had accidentally swapped him with another baby at the hospital when giving the two a bath.  He endured a life of pauperism, living in cramped conditions, taking menial jobs and attending night school while the other child had a very comfortable lifestyle, with a private tutor, university education and now head of a large real estate company.  What would the most unfortunate of the two Japanese men have done with all the same advantages?  IQ had no bearing on either's life chances.  Though the hospital disgracefully tried to have the case thrown out saying it had exceeded the 10-year statute of limitations (a country that needs this limitation has deeper seated problems with their judicial system), the man, now 60, sued for £1.5 million (Yen equivalent) though only got £272,000, with the option for the hospital to appeal.  Saddest of all, neither man never knew their parents as all four are now dead.  This of course compounds the pain of the poverty-enforced man, though at least his biological brothers want to get to know him.  As the poorer man would have been the eldest of his brothers, by rights he should have inherited the family business and it would be interesting how he interacts with the man who was swapped with him.  But try telling him he belongs where he is because of his IQ.