I have not laughed so hard in weeks.
David Cameron has declared his intention to be a radical prime minister who will deliver “massive change” to Britain if elected, in an article for The Sunday Telegraph […] So this week in Manchester you will see that far from playing it safe, the Conservative Party has a radical agenda for returning power and responsibility to people.
Thigh slappingly funny stuff! At least the Telegraph put “massive change” in quotation marks. Given that Dave has been bending over backwards for years now to make it clear he is the embodiment of ideological continuity and to promise nothing without wiggle room for backtracking later once he gets what he wants, the latest rebranding as daring radical saviour is truly our old chum “The Big Lie” in use once again.
So lets fill in that “memory hole” that Dave knows all his previous statements have vanished down…
The “massive changes” he plans are more Blair/Brown style regulation and political direction of the markets:
But we must also stand up to business when the things that people value are at risk. So it’s time to place the market within a moral framework – even if that means standing up to companies who make life harder for parents and families.
And this is the jackanapes whose “massive changes” involve promising to expand the bloated state, just a wee bit slower than Labour, and I quote from earlier this year:
Mr Cameron said he would increase government spending from £620bn this year to £645bn next year – rather than the £650bn proposed by ministers. He warned voters not to expect an incoming Tory administration to slash public spending and cut taxes, saying: “That’s not what they should be thinking…
So guys and gals, about that promise of “massive change”…
Thank God we have those valiant seekers of truth in the media, so key to our sainted democracy, to challenge the utterances of politicians and confront them with their own contradictory remarks when they make them and… oh… hang on…
Plus massif ça change….
Over the last couple of days we have had repeated statements that the government spending is vastly too high (quite true) – AND promises of new government spending on various things.
No further comment is needed.
OK — help me understand the human race, or at least the Brit sub-species.
Everyone who pays the mildest attention to British politics knows that David Cameron is an upper-crust never-been, a complete chancer — Tony Blair without the competence, Gordon Brown without the charisma. Everyone who pays the mildest attention to US politics can see the dangers of putting someone in charge of a nation who has never previously been in charge of anything significant.
Yet the conventional wisdom is that David Cameron will soon be crowned Emperor of the British County Council, answerable only to the soon-to-be Lord High Commander of all the Europes, the aforesaid Tony Blair? If this were a movie, the reviews would be written before filming began. What gives?
But Alice, it’s his turn.
Which is why Gordon took over from Tony and Tony took over from John.
If he doesn’t get his go now then it wouldn’t be fair.
(And yes, it is that childish.)
I for one am hopefull…I mean, most politicians completely reverse their positions on a lot of things so let’s just hope he goes the whole hog and abolishes the NHS, the BBC, etc. etc.
Do you think I’m being a little optimistic?
Sarcasm is naughty robert arbon.
However, if you are not being sarcastic – please direct me to the “doorway” to the alternative universe in which you live.
I am not being sarcastic – if there really is an alternative dimension where politicians are going to roll back the BBC and the NHS I want to be there.
By the way – rolling back the BBC would not cost Mr Cameron a single vote (in that the people who love the BBC so much that their VOTE is determined by love if it – would never vote Conservative anyway).
Bowing to the NHS is understandable (however much contempt people might have for such political calculations), but promising not to defund the BBC (by getting rid of the television tax) makes no sense at all.
No matter how much Mr Cameron tries to make friends with it, the BBC will work to undermine a Conservative party government (using everything from news broadcasts, comedy shows, and “cultural” programmes), because that is the nature of the beast – in this or any other universe.