Imagine if you had built an empire. It has taken you 12 years of hard slog. You sold your soul, you invested every penny, you spent every waking hour dedicated to ingratiating yourself with the powers that be in order to gain influence and revenue. It mattered not that it was built on sand because it paid well enough to finance the villa in Tuscany, the kids education, the BMW X5 and filled the pension pot. It enabled you to spout nonsense at endless parties, it enabled you to puff out your chest at “important” functions and it fed your ego and told the world that you were “somebody”, a mover and a shaker.
Now the tide is rising and your empire is about to washed away forever. Gone. Lost. Finished. Everything you planned and schemed for personal gain, regardless of the cost to others is about to come tumbling down. You will be left with nothing, your credibility gone, your influence in tatters and your political standing no higher than the average citizen drone. All that arse licking, all those orders you obeyed, all that forelock tugging…for nothing
Now you’ll understand why Michael White of the Grauniad is in a right state this morning. He is actually begging the electorate not to change anything. After all, it got him everything he ever wanted. So fuck you.