Since day one, double speak.
I am very clear what the rules are. You must follow them.
Do the rules apply? Sometimes. It depends on what works for me.
This is not about much more than that, never was with Boris. That's why we got taken to the brink.
It will never be wrong for some people. And there's an element of honesty in their view. Rules often do apply but don't. You should just not push it this far, or allow someone who will push it like that to get in charge. He's more or less the same as Blair in his approach, at the end point of how flexible they believe we should be with our definition of honesty, words, truth. He just pushes it all the time. And in service of himself without regard to the people. People are there to be used, their naivety, hopes, dreams. Who cares? The only reason he thinks about those things is because they are profitable for him. Health, sustainable economics, education. Those things are not profitable for him.
Which is why he is different to Blair. Blair delivered economics and services. And Blair would always leave eventually. Boris dgaf about that! Leaving the trough? Same category of thought as "delivering for anyone apart from people who he needs". Not profitable. No matter the cost to our country. Of course he'd install himself as unelected and impossible to remove. Forever. If it meant the end of democracy, he'd regard himself as a historic hero for breaking up the system. Democracy only matters to him because it's profitable to him.
There's nothing more to him, than him. He'll demand the life, the prestige, the honors, the protection, the status, the birds, the favours, the scummy money, without any principle, he'll defend his right to those things without any scruples whatsoever, and he'll do it forever, and if the country, nay, the world suffers enormously as a result, it's no skin of his nose, in fact, he's long ago accepted that's how it will happen. It's his right to profit from it.
He never delivered economically or socially and every win was a big failure with a little save rebranded. He set us up for years of misery. It was always on the cards. Because in his mind, today is always about saving and protecting Boris. Bigging up Boris. And tomorrow? The future? Well, obviously, Boris wants more for Boris. As much as possible. Nothing else really matters.
