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Cameron by some accounts wasn’t lazy.
And I’m not sure what lazy means in this context? Sitting around and twiddling their thumbs? Dicking around on Internet forums?
I think about the Jobs quote - want something difficult done? Ask someone lazy to do it - they’ll find a way. Paraphrased.
I think Scheming captures it better.
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Johnson suffers from the Eton delusion as so clearly - and devastatingly - demonstrated by Cameron. Bought a network of contacts (with a sideshow of posh education) that might allow him to smarm his way into become Prime Minister, while actually being wholly unprepared to lead modern Britain in any way effectively. And being lazy - an attribute evidently shared by Cameron and Johnson - is probably also a likely characteristic of the kind of person inclined to pursue the Eton short-cut. Self-belief turns out to be self-delusion (albeit with the sad consequence that the country has to bear the consequences).