David Cameron plays a blinder on 'Today'
David Cameron gave a near-faultless performance on this morning’s “Today” programme. Not only did he put a definitive end to the apparent equivocation over the marriage tax break – it is now a “commitment” for the first parliament – but his tone was pretty much pitch perfect.
Admitting that he had simply screwed up earlier in the week with his unintentionally ambiguous wording on the marriage question, he sounded as engagingly frank as he generally does in private conversation. Perhaps he was just deliriously happy over Labour’s apocalyptic collapse, but for one reason or another he sounded like a man who was, at last, robustly confident enough to be himself. The calculating, guarded quality that has tended to pervade his official persona - and which is responsible, as much as anything else, for the public’s wariness of him – was almost entirely gone. That’s the way to do it.
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One good performance doesn’t hack it…he’s still got a long way to go before he gets my vote.
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Sorry Janet, too many people are against the old school 3 party system now.
Remember Omar Khayam’s poetry?
The moving finger writesand having writ moves on
and all thy piety nor wit shall lure it back
to cancel half a line
nor all thy tears
wash out a word of it.Cameron has sat quietly by whilst Brown has ruined the country and it is much too late to say “yes, but now I have seen the light”.
Mr and Mrs Public know that a vote for cameron is a vote for a repeat of the mixture.
The future is UKIP and BNP, get used to it.
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I wondered if he’d been interrogated by Humphrys. Would he have played “a blinder” if he had been?
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John McCain admitted he’d messed up a bit. So too Obama. Now Cameron does it. But for the first Parliament? Could be the last 6 months of a 5 year term? Not really much of a committment. He really needs to be more positive.
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Like Janet I really want to believe in Cameron.However the evidence that he will really ‘make a difference’ is painfully thin. More of the same -diluted pink gin Nulabour with a twist of Tory is not the medecine the country needs.
As for we the feeble ‘cannot go on like this’ -the Dads’ Army punch line-how about John Lennon’s ‘Power( back) to the People”?
The underlying problem is the dominant Labour discourse which succeded in silencing the public voive of politics of the right years ago-even , as with race relations laws, making the expressing parts of its legitimate debate and concerns virtually’illegal’! Much of the real Tory debate in Britain has been driven underground, or into the arms of UKIP or the BNP.
The truth that dare not speak its name is the fact that in the absence of open and free debate in a a broad church Conservative party, millions of Britons are forced to express in secret their grudging support for the BNP’
Most modern Tories would have been called Liberals or even Socialists 60 years ago.Cameron himself would have fitted perfectly into the Asquith cabinet.
The Tories are still frightened to discuss even the need to cut the enormpous and obscene level of waste in the overmanaged NHS and the ridiculous Nulabour multiculural mass immigration scam which wants to see our population at 70 million in twenty years.Labour set out to change the face of Britain forevever -unless Cameron rows back more forcefully they will have achieved hat aim.
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owdal80 I love your post so much I almost want to marry you.
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James.
That’s just what the girls used to say to me when I wus a young un. Mind yer, I am glad to say I thought it important to spread it around a bit first.
Thanks James, I knew my BA Humanities would come in handy one day.
Al.
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owdal80 is absolutely 100%.
The three main parties are far too weak willed, they will change nothing and continue to let our culture and freedom slip into history.
Time to put Britain and the British first!
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He promised a referendum on Lisbon. Weasel words. He’s smoothly frank in the style of Blair and Obama.
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Is that a ‘cast iron’ commitment?
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Cameron couldn’t get my vote for the Tories unless he is ‘pitch-perfect’ when he utters the memorable statement of:
“I am sorry, I sincerely apologise to all of the British people; yes, it was a gutless thing to do when I mislead the people who support the Conservative Party and the large number of Eurosceptics in the United Kingdom, when I implied that a Cast-Iron Guarantee on a referendum on the Lisbon Constitutional Treaty was exactly that. Under the circumstances I can do only one honourable act and that is to stand down both as an MP and as the person in charge of the Conservative Party at the moment. Like the vast majority of people in the country, I hope that there is a LEADER who can step up to the crease who is capable of LEADING our once great Nation back to the forefront of international events.”
Even then, I’d still prefer UKIP …
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When are some of you going to get real.
Once the Lisbon Tready was was signed up, and in law, just what point was there of a referendum?Brown is the one to blame, but you want to blame Cameron? Go off and join UKIP, and the 3% who will vote with you.
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Janet I forgot to add I agree 100% with your article above, and it was a vote winner for those listening to him.
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@johnbournemo..
The point of the referendum is the answer. If it’s ‘no’ then we just tear up the treaty. What’s your problem?
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And where does that leave us? It is now law.
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Its only law if we want it as law the government of the day can withdraw any time they want.
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The guests are asking what’s for dinner, and Cameron is talking up the salad course.
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johnbournemouth: the UK Government can withdraw at any time, we as a sovereign state do not require permission … until our leaders recognise this they are certainly not LEADERS … Cameron is weak and a totally inept leader of a party to-date, how can anyone expect to take him seriously as leader of a country.
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johnbournemouth: I joined UKIP as soon as Cameron backed out and Mr Haig supported his stance.
Brown is complicit with the LibDems and Tories on the Lisbon Constitutional Treaty’s ratification … they are all to blame … roll on the hangings
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Get on your bikes.
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Sorry Janet, I disagree; it was so uninteresting that I stopped listening.
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FFS!
‘Admitting that he had simply screwed up earlier in the week with his unintentionally ambiguous wording…’
Oh dear!
Did you think I said Referendum?
I meant ‘We’ll just follow Brownismismism!
Ooops!
Did you think I said launch the Nukes?
>.<
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“And where does that leave us? It is now law.”
johnbournemouth – are you trying to appear dense? We can tear it up at any time – just as the French would do if it suited them. You really are a sad little goody-twoshoes, aren’t you?
PS – your idea of debate is – “on your bikes”? Says it all about you really.
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johnbournemouth
You are wasting your time trying to reason with the UKIPers. They jeer at Cameron for being a weak and totally inept leader who took the Tories from 14 per cent behind in the opinion polls to ten per cent in front, while their own leader – old wotzisname – has gone AWOL after trying to do a deal with the Tories which would have meant the disbandment of his own party – and without as much as a by-your-leave to the poor bloody infantry.
What is the point of a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty anyway? Have we lost any of our everyday freedoms and liberties since it kicked in? Is every able-bodied British man, woman and child being rounded up and herded off to slave long hours underground in the Belgian chocolate mines as the more demented UKIPers on these blogs were predicting? Are Europhobe dissidents being arrested at dead of night by Barosso’s EU gendarmerie to be tortured and brainwashed in the 21st-century equivalent of Room 101?
How many fingers am I holding up, UKIPers? Clue: it is two fewer than O’Brien.
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I don’t like being lied to so I try to avoid David Cameron and the BBC (Brussels Broadcasting Corporation)
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@owdal80
“Sorry Janet, too many people are against the old school 3 party system now.”
Do go and read up some electoral history before you spout an opinion.
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Richard Manns 9;56
You do sound snotty, but I will favour you with an answer.
My point is that this old school system has become as one party.
If youtake the trouble to listen to what their leaders have to say you will realise that nothing will change whichever of these old boys are elected.
That has nothing to do with Whigs and Tories Mister.
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Richard Manns on Jan 7th, 2010 at 9:56 pm
DO JUMP into the 21st Century old Bean.
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Richard Manns on Jan 7th, 2010 at 9:56 pm
ps…. Just out of interest, your name is ALMOST the same a Michael Mann, you know? the supposed ‘Climate Scientist’ over in Penn State (There’s a Mann over in Penn State wondering if he’s going to the State Pen)
He of Global Warming Scam ‘Hockey Schtick’ infamy (infamy, they’ve all got it infamy!)?
Anyway….. I was wondering if you added the ‘S’ just to make sure you are in no way considered connected to him?
Like Peter refusing he knew The Lord 3 times?
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bob1972 on Jan 7th, 2010 at 7:45 pm
‘I don’t like being lied to so I try to avoid David Cameron and the BBC (Brussels Broadcasting Corporation)’
THAT’S Clear and Transparent!
And concise as well!
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