Back on topic, another angry voice over on Facebook earlier suggested he always goes against what he’s been elected on.
You have to understand that all that matters currently for him is getting first the support of a majority of Tory MPs – look serious / be the only way of saving your own job and party / look General Election electable and then appealing to the majority of Tory party members.
He’ll promise anything – tax cuts / the death penalty / free holidays for rich OAPs / public chocolate fountains – so the latter will vote for him, BUT once it’s done and he’s elected, he never needs to appeal to them again, so there are no real consequences to lying. It’s slightly different with MPs, but for the members, it doesn’t make any practical difference. He can promise anything and then go back on it without consequences.
Our only hope is that with a past as dodgy as his, someone’s got some real dirt that they’re waiting to spill
It would have to be seismic, like he’s a robot or Putin’s secret cold war lover or something. Part of his appeal is that the Tories already know he’s a duplicitous, serial liar, philanderer, buffoon, probably narcissist etc. But if you think about it, that’s actually something of an advantage for someone who won’t be able to deliver what he promises. When he goes back on his word, no-one will remotely surprised.
He’s awful though. When he was answering questions at his launch thing, he started to look like an oversized teddy bear that was about to start leaking stuffing through badly stitched seams. Shifty, blustering, evasive. But then it’s not like anyone didn’t know that already.
