I have made this point before — but if you accept that Boris is a charismatic frontman who enjoys dress-ups, then his life and career make a *lot* more sense...
He is a showman. He lives for the applause, and the glow of the stage lights. But he has no interest in writing the scripts, or building the sets. He will swan in at the final moment, ascend the stage (30 minutes late) and deliver the lines written for him with cheeky gusto. And the crowd will love it. But all that requires an entire team doing the rest, and being ready to hand him the script, direct him to the stage they have built, and manage the lights and sound while he performs. A star without the rest of the crew cannot deliver the show.
Also, notice how the various personalities/ideas he has assumed change throughout his life like costumes, according to what suits his comfort in the moment:
— Libertarian, cogent, 'writer Boris' was when he was playing dress up in the ideas of his exceptionally intelligent (long-suffering) wife, Marina Wheeler.
— Then he saw an opportunity to dress up as a Brexiteer, and threw on the cloak of Leave and played in that for a while. When that wound down he saw a new cloak to try on — the extremely popular (populist?) ideas and positions of one Mr Dom Cummings.
— Then Carrie happened. She didn't like this scene of the play, so he threw off that costume and slipped into one more suited to his current circumstances. Currently he is living for the applause of the woke metropolitan globalist set that he is embedded with.
This is just Boris. Either they need to get a stronger person in to beat back that influence and enthrall Boris to dress up once again, or we are b*ggered. As far as I can tell, that's about the size of things right now.
I have made this point before — but if you accept that Boris is a charismatic frontman who enjoys dress-ups, then his life and career make a *lot* more sense...
He is a showman. He lives for the applause, and the glow of the stage lights. But he has no interest in writing the scripts, or building the sets. He will swan in at the final moment, ascend the stage (30 minutes late) and deliver the lines written for him with cheeky gusto. And the crowd will love it. But all that requires an entire team doing the rest, and being ready to hand him the script, direct him to the stage they have built, and manage the lights and sound while he performs. A star without the rest of the crew cannot deliver the show.
Also, notice how the various personalities/ideas he has assumed change throughout his life like costumes, according to what suits his comfort in the moment:
— Libertarian, cogent, 'writer Boris' was when he was playing dress up in the ideas of his exceptionally intelligent (long-suffering) wife, Marina Wheeler.
— Then he saw an opportunity to dress up as a Brexiteer, and threw on the cloak of Leave and played in that for a while. When that wound down he saw a new cloak to try on — the extremely popular (populist?) ideas and positions of one Mr Dom Cummings.
— Then Carrie happened. She didn't like this scene of the play, so he threw off that costume and slipped into one more suited to his current circumstances. Currently he is living for the applause of the woke metropolitan globalist set that he is embedded with.
This is just Boris. Either they need to get a stronger person in to beat back that influence and enthrall Boris to dress up once again, or we are b*ggered. As far as I can tell, that's about the size of things right now.