Stupid work, actually obliging me to y’know get up off my ass and study.
Anyhow.
The important issues of the day:
Iraqi Voting - Boo Yah! Nothing more need be said but that’s not going to stop me. All the polling stations are devoid of coalition troops, it’s Iraqi national armed forces policing there. Let’s see, massive-turnout, Sunni endorsed, Democractic Elections in Iraq with a brilliant show of competence from the national armed forces. Smells a lot like winning.
David Cameron - Well whilst I’m busy watching the Labour party rip itself to shreds (education reform? Screw that - let’s topple the man who won us our seats and present an unelectable, rift-ridden crapheap to the general public for the next election!) the Tories have a candidate who actually have them beating Labour in the polls.
It took about 2 minutes for Labour head office to dash out an email from comedienne Jo Brand which started thusly:
David Cameron (Dave to his friends), an old Etonian distantly related to the Queen, has been elected leader of the Conservative Party.
At last, it has dawned on Tory members that they need to be in touch with the reality of the modern world and the lives of the majority of British people!
Yes, it’s funny and yes the letter did go on to say what needed to be said - lower taxes being horrific for the NHS, Education and all the public services which have shown such marked improvement under New Labour - but taking potshots at Cameron’s background and ancestry? That’s pretty ridiculous.
You can’t purport to be a party which strives for equality and then berate someone for being born into a certain class or background. It has to go both ways guys, you can’t just be pro-working-class - equality not class war.
David Cameron is a charismatic, young candidate who can really do some damage to New Labour and by being utterly unashamed of his background he’s inviting the rabid left (who already have done the party considerable damage) to come snarling out of the blocks to reveal themselves as cro-magnon über-socialists. If we start tearing into Cameron for his family tree it will just make the Labour party look ridiculous.
Later
John
Posted by John Swaine at December 15, 2005 12:27 PM