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itsbruce in reply to @gbj_tester

I've always thought that calling that kind of behaviour Machiavellian was like calling the creature Frankenstein.

Ha! Boris doesn't cut it as Machiavelli's ideal prince. He's all over being a great liar and deceiver, but wants too much to be loved.

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gbj_tester in reply to @itsbruce

wants too much to be loved

Machiavelli describes what works. In the 21st century it may be more effective to be loved than to be feared.

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frankenbike in reply to @gbj_tester

I don't think there's any strategy to Boris. He is essentially the outcome of the thought experiment: "what if David Brent went to Eton?" Crippled by his indecisiveness, physically incapable of hard work, pathological need to be loved, etc.

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