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You’re not a proper Capetonian until you’ve lost an umbrella to the wind.

On a proper windy day, you’re likely to see an umbrella skeleton or two stuffed into rubbish bins across the city, and it’s a problem many others can also relate to.

Now you can add Boris Johnson to the list, after his escapades on Wednesday while attending the unveiling of a memorial to police officers at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire.

It was a sombre affair, honouring police officers who have died in the line of duty, until BoJo’s snafu.

Prince Charles can be seen having a good chuckle, which is really all you can do in such a situation:

Home Secretary Priti Patel, to whom Boris admirably offered the umbrella, would be well versed in his buffoonery.

Still, she barely managed to hold it together:

What is it with politicians with terrible hairdos and umbrellas?

[source:telegraph]