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Cameron - what a silly boy
BillieTheBot
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Personally, I've always thought the new "consensual" approach by David Cameron was nonsense. We have now probably one of the worst governments ever to exist. So, what does Dave Cameron do? Why, he only praises the leadership of Tony Blair!
According to the BBC, "Tory leader David Cameron is expected to praise the prime minister in a speech where he will set out his vision for modern Conservatism. In an address to the left-wing think-tank, Demos, he will say Tony Blair had a "profound" understanding of what people wanted in the 1990s. He will say the Tories must now focus on succeeding where Labour had failed to follow through on its promises. He will also blame Chancellor Gordon Brown for increasing bureaucracy."
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Really, you couldn't make this up. But what's to praise about Tony Blair's leadership? This is the man who took Britain to war on the basis of lies. This man has contempt for our national institutions - the legal system, the Houses of Parliament, the democratic rule of law, the national media - nothing must be allowed to get in the way of the Blair Project. Tony Blair is a man who deserves nothing but contempt, and David Cameron, for praising him so highly, deserves to be mocked for saying such stupid things.
According to the BBC, "Tory leader David Cameron is expected to praise the prime minister in a speech where he will set out his vision for modern Conservatism. In an address to the left-wing think-tank, Demos, he will say Tony Blair had a "profound" understanding of what people wanted in the 1990s. He will say the Tories must now focus on succeeding where Labour had failed to follow through on its promises. He will also blame Chancellor Gordon Brown for increasing bureaucracy."
Click here to see what the fake Tory said.
Really, you couldn't make this up. But what's to praise about Tony Blair's leadership? This is the man who took Britain to war on the basis of lies. This man has contempt for our national institutions - the legal system, the Houses of Parliament, the democratic rule of law, the national media - nothing must be allowed to get in the way of the Blair Project. Tony Blair is a man who deserves nothing but contempt, and David Cameron, for praising him so highly, deserves to be mocked for saying such stupid things.
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you don't win elections by telling your potential voters they were idiots for voting for Blair. You win elections by saying we're going to continue all the good things the Government has done (only better) and without the bad.
Plus Blair is about to go - he's no longer the person Cameron will be facing at the general election. So he concentrates on Brown - saying that he's an obstacle to progress.
PS - How old are you? It sounds like your sixty when you refer to a man in his thirties as a silly boy.
No you don't. That just makes you look petulant. Like it or not the Labour Govt remains popular (look at its majority). If you just criticise it makes the Tories look like they've not learned a thing from being in opposition and are still clinging to ideas which got them voted out in the first place.
Cameron's saying 'We've learnt from our mistakes, we recognise that people want public services, they support the NHS etc. Blair's done alright in providing this, but look he's baout to go and it'll be Brown. Brown won't follow Blair. We will and we'll do it more effectively so vote for us'
According to the opinion polls this seems to have been more successful than screaming about what a disaster Blair has been (when for many people that's not true).
the tories at las have someone who is talking sense.
very clever boy ...the best the tories have had in a long time.
sorry SG but i think you have totaly missed the point.
But that's not the strategy - the strategy is to show the Tories will not dismantle the good Labour reforms under Blair, but that Brown is untrustworthy and will block reforms of public services.
The Tories are also recognising that people voted for Thatcher in the 80s because people did think unions were too strong, they were taxed too much, the economy was doing poorly and they wanted a leader who could sort it out.
Thatcher did so. Blairs skill was recognising that people didn't want to go back to the seventies, so he painted himself as the heir to Thatcher, but an heir who would look after public services - which is what people were worried about.
In turn Cameron is not going to be elected by saying that the Tories will go back to Thatcherite economics, because attempts to do so have been rebuffed by the electorate in 1997, 2001 and 2005.
In the end the only aim for political parties is to get votes and get into power. its alright for the Tories to remain ideollogically pure as you and Tebbit seem to demand - unfortunately that means that Labour will be in perpetual power.
Politics is the art of the possible.
this guy is the best thing the tories have seen in a long time.
As it happens the Tories' old guard, through the mouth the odiuos Norman Tebbit, will tomorrow lash out at Cameron and compare him with Pol Pot, for daring to ditch Thatcherite principles.
Just what the electorate at large wanted to happen, I suspect...
And of course the more the hardline right of the Tories complain the better because it then looks like the Tories have changed.
Or something.
Either way, I dont exactly believe it, but it certainly means they dont look like a bunch of knee-jerk reactionaries all the time.