Here’s a good one. John Rentoul in today’s Independent on Sunday has written an article suggesting…”a well executed U-turn can enhance a premier’s reputation, as David Cameron proves.”
Really! So PRDave a master of deceit, a prime minister whose poor knowledge and, more crucially, lack of interest in detail, is clearly apparent, who seems only interested in protecting “his self-image as decent person” is doing more than OK. Rentoul summarises that..” Cameron’s willingness to drop policies at the first whiff of cordite made him look flaky in opposition, but makes him a formidable prime minister.”
What nonsense. Rentoul paints a picture of PRDave, descending when required “from Mount Olympus when he needs to, to sort out problems that escape from the control of departmental ministers and threaten to make him personally look bad.” However what are these U turns? Mostly relatively minor compared to the wholesale ransacking of the health, education and local government programmes.
PRDave is a fraud because the protection of his self-image is his driving force. He is not interested in the effects his government’s policies have on women, children, the disadvantaged, the less well off, the young or the old whether they are students or the elderly (unless the latter are Tory voters).
His image of a future England is modelled on some imagined rural shire that his parents told him about and its well off towns, the remnants of which can be seen in certain postcodes with an outanding rated school. He prefers to speculate on social and economic models created in the Big Society think-tank to be administered by the affluent for the good of the rest of the country, although nobody dare tell him that like John Major’s Victorian values they never existed. Furthermore let us not forget that the majority of his “reforms” will only affect England because Wales and Scotland have administrations that represent in one way or another real people.
So really PRDave is not interested in policies he just wants to be Prime Minister, because, well because, a sort of modern day patriarch but smooth faced without the beard. But he also needs to be liked, to be thought of as a decent human being. In this he is rather like those god fearing Victorian worthies, who if not bearded were nether smooth faced, whose memorials can be found in every county town They founded or bankrolled libraries, museums, dispensaries for the sick and schools. Except PRDave needs to smash up their successor foundations and institutions to achieve a year zero, simply because the vehicle that now supports them is the State, which of course gets in the way of choice, choice of what? Individual freedom, for what?
But the unkindly cut of all is the way the Tory led government is redirecting complaints that draconian cuts in local government funding has nothing to do with loss of services, its your council not me, he says over and over again. PRDave so much needs to be thought of as “a decent person” that he is washing his hands of responsibility. So much so that when seeking election, he can sympathise (and publicise) with the mother of a disabled child, yet in power he can only point when faced with the reality his accusing finger at the local council.
Shame on you. Your misdeeds are far greater than those of Gordon Brown whose “bigoted woman” remark cost votes and maybe seats. Yours are of vanity and deceit and ultimately they will bring you down.
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