I certainly don't think he inserted himself into power to enjoy trappings. He stood for election as independently wealthy due to a) an accident of birth and b) running an extremely successful investment management firm. I don't feel that becoming an MP has too great an impact on his overall wealth.
Power, not wealth. I thought I’d made that clear.
As for being decent and being against disabled people, well I don't think thats really the case. He's been involved in some policies that have caused teething problems, universal credit and spare room subsidy, however i don't think that stems from wanting to attack the poor, but from a desire to promote fairness, make work pay and balance the books. Not my view, but his view
“Teething problems” is a grotesque euphemism. The reality of those “teething problems” is cutting benefits yet not creating jobs, it is putting people who are working in zero hour contract and low paid jobs further into poverty, it is cutting disability benefits (despite a firm promise that they’d be ring fenced from cuts!!!) to the point where people who are disabled and unable (NOT unwilling as Tory propaganda would have you believe) to work are in dire financial straits and unable to afford even a basic decent standard of living.
If you want to make work pay, make it pay, create jobs, job security and decent wages.
Simply cutting services, welfare and other vital areas to the bone and saying it’s for the best isn’t right, decent or fair.
But then, if you’re willing to see people living in deplorable conditions, hungry, cold, unable to access basic facilities such as hot water and cooking facilities written off as “teething problems” I suspect none of what I’ve just written will make a jot of difference.