‘The NHS safe because of us’ was just one boast unwinding as he spoke. Secretly he must wish he could quit right nowThings will never accept better for David Cameron. That triumphal speech was his apex,the acme, the zenith (the point of culmination; peak) of his career. How he gloried in that exit poll victory moment: “There was a moment when I thought I had died and gone to heaven.” This is as qualified as it gets.
Secretly he must wonder whether he should quit right now in this ascendant, and all-conquering moment. For his “national crusade” in a “turnaround decade” of “social reform” is a delusion,as his map marches the country in the opposite direction. Wherever he imagines the common ground or centre ground to be, he has no compass nor any intention of going there. The disconnect, and the cognitive dissonance,between the words in his speech and his actions past and planned made for a dizzying acrobatic performance. Talk left, walk right. Listen to what he says, or don’t peep down at what he does.
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Source: theguardian.com