Warning smoke signals @ No 10!

I'm really beginning to feel sorry for the guy! Boy David, I mean. There he is on one of his 'rest cure' holidays - warm Spanish sun, lovely red Spanish wine, soft sand beneath his feet, blue sky above his head - you get the picture?

So - why should I feel sorry for him, you ask? I haven't ever had a holiday! I'm fed on scraps! I catch rats and no one even says 'thank you'. But - I'm always prepared for the worst, so that when something good comes along - that's a bonus! But Boy David isn't like that. He expects good things in life, after all he is a Tory.

He's been praised by the US press. They call him 'compassionate' and 'caring'. Now that's what most politicians would call an accolade! The Americans love him - Republicans especially! Most Europeans think he's pretty cool too.

But - they say a prophet is never recognised in his own land! And boy, oh boy, have some of the UK columnists not recognised him! And that, my friends, is what awaits our Boy David when he returns to the murky world that is No 10 Downing Street.

In one paper, the brilliant journalist, Polly Toynbee, took apart Tory ideology on financiers making profits out of the most vulnerable. The opening paragraph stated:

David Cameron's regular railing against "excessive regulation and bureaucracy" rings embarrassingly hollow in this week's care homes crisis. So does his promise that "the grip of state control will be released" from "the enemies of enterprise" as he stops the "dead hand of the state getting in the way"

She went on to say:

Cameron's privatising zeal looks even less enticing in the wake of this week's two care home scandals. The "dead hand of the state" looks rather more welcoming than the grasping hand of private equity.

In addition, the Financial Times has just completed some research into the financial problems facing several NHS Trusts. The research will make grim reading for the Prime Minister who is intent on allowing old silver fox Lansley to get his way with the NHS reforms.

On top of all of this, Boy David was hoping to save some dosh by slashing the armed forces' budgets - particularly that of the Reservist groups. Yet now, further research indicates that the UK needs to increase the ratio between numbers of part-time and full-time troops, which currently stands at 15:85. These new figures represent a reversal of the plans drawn up inside the MoD to cut the already diminished number of reservists. The report will go to Boy David before the end of this month. It will not be welcome reading for this cost cutting PM and his Chancellor.

So - all in all - I think our Boss may well need to have another 'rest cure' before very long. In fact, if I were to advise him I'd say: "Wouldn't bother coming home, old chum. Things can and will only get worse!"