I tend to agree with you all and as someone who has been living in the UK for a very long time I now understand how the British politicians think.
You may call them devious but they are very clever. They can hide their true intentions by using diversion tactics then they can justify their actions. They use these tactics when carrying out their policies in their own country with their own people and of course with the rest of the world. You notice that in every day to day life here.
For example if they want cut the budgets for schools they will announce that they want to make the schools run more efficiently and to improve the standards of education for our children and of course people will agree to these objectives!. In the background and without saying anything about cutting the budget.
The same diversion tactics used when they wanted to get back control of the suez canal? when behind the scenes they plotted with France to let Israel start an attack on the suez canal then they will come to Egypt to separate the warring factions by landing forces around the suez canal. You can see the pattern repeated over and over again in all aspect of polycies!