When is ‘sponging’ acceptable?

Much of the Britain's population fears not having enough money to pay skyrocketing bills - mortgages or rent, food and basic necessities. Yet the former+1 PM, Boris Johnson, apparently has an endless supply of willing donors to keep him and his ever expanding family in the life style to which he wants to be accustomed. He has just been handed another £10,000 worth of accommodation for the month of October, even though he part owns three properties in London! He already earns remarkable amounts of money for the occasional talk, to glorify them with the title 'lecture' implies intellectual rigour and argument. His will be the usual flippant, self congratulatory nonsense that he espoused when PM.
So why exactly does he warrant such generosity and why doesn't the right wing Tory Press ever question it? Their readers are also suffering the vagaries of Conservative ineptitude and yet they appear not to see the hypocrisy in an ex-PM constantly relying on others to pay his way.
Double standards doesn't even remotely describe it.
They harp on about 'freeloading' and 'spongers' in a derogatory way and yet the leader they supported, and some still pine for, is possibly the greatest sponger of them all!