One of the more astonishing claims by Dave "Man of the People" Cameron on the TV debate on Thursday, was this gem:
I was in Plymouth recently, and a 40-year-old black man made the point to me. He said, "I came here when I was six, I've served in the Royal Navy for 30 years..."
Now bear with me on the maths, but if this bloke was 40 and had been in the Navy for 30 years, then he would have to have been 10 when he joined, MAX.
Far be it from me to imply that Dave made this encounter up, that would be verging on the libellous!
I can only conclude that this "black man" was a fantasist, and DC was just too polite to point it out, in which case why did he repeat it in front of 10 million people?
Showing posts with label david cameron. Show all posts
Showing posts with label david cameron. Show all posts
Saturday, 17 April 2010
Wednesday, 31 March 2010
Blair calls Cameron "vacuous"
Thursday, 11 March 2010
David Cameron... "much more conservative" than the image he projects
Great story in today's Independent (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/with-friends-like-these-tory-leaders-ally-puts-his-foot-in-it-1919447.html) confirming what many of us have said for a long time, namely that David "Tony Blair lite" Cameron is much more conservative by nature than he acts, or than he is forced to be by political expediency.
The man will say and do anything to get into power, and once in the mask will slip and it'll be back to the horribly divided, damaged, and destructive Britain of the 1980s.
The ghost of Thatcher lives on... Oh hold on, she's not yet dead... sorry!
The man will say and do anything to get into power, and once in the mask will slip and it'll be back to the horribly divided, damaged, and destructive Britain of the 1980s.
The ghost of Thatcher lives on... Oh hold on, she's not yet dead... sorry!
Friday, 5 February 2010
Tories: Soft on Crime - Soft in the head
As a sitting magistrate, I generally do not like to comment on "Crime and Punishment" issues.
I do not want in anyway to compromise (or give the impression) my impartiality and independence.
However, figures put out by the Tory Shadow Home Secretary alleging that violent crime had risen sharply under Labour, and their subsequent rebuttal by Sir Michael Scholar (chair of the UK Statistics Authority), I feel, needs a comment.
I don't mind when politicians get it wrong, we all do, but by giving an exaggerated picture of the "growth" of violent crime up and down the country, they are playing fast and loose with the public's feeling of security and safety, and indeed wrongly worsening their perception of "broken Britain", for party political gain.
Which brings me to a story about BoJo (Mayor of London, Court Jester to the Court of King Cameron) wanting to cut the number of police officers by 500-ish in the capital, despite him campaigning for election on making crime-fighting his top priority.
This would be the first major cut in police numbers in London since policing was devolved a decade ago.
You simply cannot have the wannabe Tory Home Secretary stoking up people's fears about violent crime on the one hand, and the most powerful elected Tory reducing police numbers on the other.
They are a shambles, and should not be allowed to to ru(i)n the country after the next general election.
I do not want in anyway to compromise (or give the impression) my impartiality and independence.
However, figures put out by the Tory Shadow Home Secretary alleging that violent crime had risen sharply under Labour, and their subsequent rebuttal by Sir Michael Scholar (chair of the UK Statistics Authority), I feel, needs a comment.
I don't mind when politicians get it wrong, we all do, but by giving an exaggerated picture of the "growth" of violent crime up and down the country, they are playing fast and loose with the public's feeling of security and safety, and indeed wrongly worsening their perception of "broken Britain", for party political gain.
Which brings me to a story about BoJo (Mayor of London, Court Jester to the Court of King Cameron) wanting to cut the number of police officers by 500-ish in the capital, despite him campaigning for election on making crime-fighting his top priority.
This would be the first major cut in police numbers in London since policing was devolved a decade ago.
You simply cannot have the wannabe Tory Home Secretary stoking up people's fears about violent crime on the one hand, and the most powerful elected Tory reducing police numbers on the other.
They are a shambles, and should not be allowed to to ru(i)n the country after the next general election.
Saturday, 23 January 2010
Cameron the new Blair Lite
When politicians start invoking morality alarm bells should start ringing, especially when they talk of "broken societies" and "social recession" as David Cameron did yesterday.
He was speaking of the horrific attacks on two little boys by two other youngsters, and of course it brought to mind Tony Blair's comments nearly twenty years ago of Britain being in a "moral vacuum", and look where that led us.
An illegal, unjustified, and ultimately devastating war in Iraq because of a sense of moral superiority.
I am afraid that should Cameron be successful in becoming PM he would resort to the same "moral certainties" that Blair used to justify his more dubious decisions.
This is not in anyway to condone or minimise the traumatic attack carried out in Doncaster last year, but rather to eschew impotent hand-wringing or seeking vengeful retribution.
In fact, to reverse what the last Tory PM John Major said, namely that we should condemn less and try to understand more, and having understood take steps to see such, thankfully rare, behaviour does not occur again.
He was speaking of the horrific attacks on two little boys by two other youngsters, and of course it brought to mind Tony Blair's comments nearly twenty years ago of Britain being in a "moral vacuum", and look where that led us.
An illegal, unjustified, and ultimately devastating war in Iraq because of a sense of moral superiority.
I am afraid that should Cameron be successful in becoming PM he would resort to the same "moral certainties" that Blair used to justify his more dubious decisions.
This is not in anyway to condone or minimise the traumatic attack carried out in Doncaster last year, but rather to eschew impotent hand-wringing or seeking vengeful retribution.
In fact, to reverse what the last Tory PM John Major said, namely that we should condemn less and try to understand more, and having understood take steps to see such, thankfully rare, behaviour does not occur again.
Sunday, 27 December 2009
The nerve of the man...
"I don't think we should invent differences where none exist". DC
David Cameron, "Whether you're Labour, Conservative, or Liberal Democrat, you're motivated by... progressive aims... a country... where opportunity is more equal".
Progressive, the Tories?
* "Tory tax plans put child benefit at risk" The Independent
* "Raise the inheritance tax threshold from £700k to £1m" The Guardian
* "Scrapping vehicle excise duty on the least environmentally friendly cars" The Times
* "Tories reassure independent schools about their charitable status" The Independent
* "Tory marriage tax allowance would give the highest earners 13 times as much as those on lower incomes"
Oh yes and they want to bring back fox-hunting with dogs.
Of course that's what the country has been crying out for.
In the depths of the deepest recession in living memory, and top of the list of things the Tories want to do is have a free vote on fox hunting.
On the doorsteps throughout Keighley, Ilkley, Silsden, and elsewhere in the constituency, that's what people buttonhole me about. A free vote on fox hunting with dogs.
At the risk of sounding sarcastic, you've obviously got your finger on the political pulse of the nation, David.
The Tories are not progressive, never were and will never be.
Don't be fooled by the smooth(ish) banter.
David Cameron, "Whether you're Labour, Conservative, or Liberal Democrat, you're motivated by... progressive aims... a country... where opportunity is more equal".
Progressive, the Tories?
* "Tory tax plans put child benefit at risk" The Independent
* "Raise the inheritance tax threshold from £700k to £1m" The Guardian
* "Scrapping vehicle excise duty on the least environmentally friendly cars" The Times
* "Tories reassure independent schools about their charitable status" The Independent
* "Tory marriage tax allowance would give the highest earners 13 times as much as those on lower incomes"
Oh yes and they want to bring back fox-hunting with dogs.
Of course that's what the country has been crying out for.
In the depths of the deepest recession in living memory, and top of the list of things the Tories want to do is have a free vote on fox hunting.
On the doorsteps throughout Keighley, Ilkley, Silsden, and elsewhere in the constituency, that's what people buttonhole me about. A free vote on fox hunting with dogs.
At the risk of sounding sarcastic, you've obviously got your finger on the political pulse of the nation, David.
The Tories are not progressive, never were and will never be.
Don't be fooled by the smooth(ish) banter.
Thursday, 10 December 2009
Do you want this man as PM?
Revelations today show that multi-millionaire, David Cameron claimed:
* £1,200 for oil for the stove at his Witney home in leafy Oxfordshire on TOP of monthly utility bills averaging £180 a month.
* £1,000 a month in mortgage interest payments.
* Secured a 10% reduction in council tax on the property from his local council, though the value of the property meant he was still claiming back £196 a month.
All this at a time when he was calling for a radical reform of MPs' expenses and allowances.
* £1,200 for oil for the stove at his Witney home in leafy Oxfordshire on TOP of monthly utility bills averaging £180 a month.
* £1,000 a month in mortgage interest payments.
* Secured a 10% reduction in council tax on the property from his local council, though the value of the property meant he was still claiming back £196 a month.
All this at a time when he was calling for a radical reform of MPs' expenses and allowances.
Friday, 9 October 2009
Complete this set, Moses, Martin Luther King, and... David Cameron?
How presumptuous of David Cameron to compare himself to Dr Martin Luther King and Moses.
The latter went up Mount Sinai but never entered the Promised Land, and Dr King famously said, "And He[God]'s allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over. And I've seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised land!"
David Cameron: "There is a steep climb ahead... The view from the summit will be worth it".
On the fiftieth anniversary of Harold Macmillan's general election victory who famously said "that the class war is obsolete". For the Tories to try to be seen as the champions of the poor is equally delusional and really sticks in the craw.
The latter went up Mount Sinai but never entered the Promised Land, and Dr King famously said, "And He[God]'s allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over. And I've seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised land!"
David Cameron: "There is a steep climb ahead... The view from the summit will be worth it".
On the fiftieth anniversary of Harold Macmillan's general election victory who famously said "that the class war is obsolete". For the Tories to try to be seen as the champions of the poor is equally delusional and really sticks in the craw.
Monday, 22 June 2009
Tories... Modest as ever!
Oh dear, David (call me Dave) Cameron, presses his front bench to give up as many of their extra-Parliamentary activities and interests as possible, or at least to declare how much they get paid for them, just to show that the Tories are no longer the "Nasty Party".
They're not all posh nobs you know. Yes, some of them have the moats of their second homes cleaned at the public's expense. Yes, some of them spent £1,645 on a floating duck house in their garden pond. Yes, half the front-bench went to private schools.
Yes, some of them had jolly japes up at Oxford, a few were members of the Bullingdon Club (think Bertie Wooster, but without the wit, charm, likeability, and certainly not Jeeves).
But apart from that, honest, they're just like you and me.
Along comes the MP for Windsor, or at least his chief of staff, who fires off an e-mail to a magazine for having the temerity to paint his boss as some sort of a pauper, according to the Independent.
"Would you mind taking on board one correction?" wrote Russell Walters. "You say he is worth £13m but this is a significant understatement. Earlier this decade he sold one company... of which his share was £13m, but... his actual worth is somewhere between £50m and £100m".
I'm glad that's cleared up then.
Ah, plus ça change, plus c'est pareil.
They're not all posh nobs you know. Yes, some of them have the moats of their second homes cleaned at the public's expense. Yes, some of them spent £1,645 on a floating duck house in their garden pond. Yes, half the front-bench went to private schools.
Yes, some of them had jolly japes up at Oxford, a few were members of the Bullingdon Club (think Bertie Wooster, but without the wit, charm, likeability, and certainly not Jeeves).
But apart from that, honest, they're just like you and me.
Along comes the MP for Windsor, or at least his chief of staff, who fires off an e-mail to a magazine for having the temerity to paint his boss as some sort of a pauper, according to the Independent.
"Would you mind taking on board one correction?" wrote Russell Walters. "You say he is worth £13m but this is a significant understatement. Earlier this decade he sold one company... of which his share was £13m, but... his actual worth is somewhere between £50m and £100m".
I'm glad that's cleared up then.
Ah, plus ça change, plus c'est pareil.
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