Saturday 16 March 2013

Something nasty in the woodshed @ No 10

"Wonder if 'Boy David' Cameron knows his Roman history?" Arturo asked. "He'd be well advised to keep his back to the wall not just on the Ides of March but everyday, from now on!"

"Why? Who's out to get him?"

"Who? You'd be better asking: 'Who isn't?'" Arturo chuckled.

He's right, of course. 'Boy David' Cameron has just about alienated everyone. Understandably, Labour loathe him. The LibDems have mixed feelings of jealousy and dislike. But the most sinister people with daggers at the ready are ... can you guess? His own Party members! It's true! Already, they're lining up in their serried ranks to toss him overboard and fill his shoes!

Unlike Labour, the Conservative Party has a long history of back-stabbing its leaders. Just ask Heath and Thatcher!!

For quite some time, the rumours of an ousting have been doing the rounds. As early as November 2011, there were headlines forecasting:
Tory MP 'secretly taped claiming Cameron will be ousted in spring'

Patrick Mercer said to have called PM a 'despicable creature' and 'the worst politician since Gladstone'

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/nov/13/tory-mp-cameron-ousted-spring

But - he survived, didn't he? In fact the threatened 'ousting' did not even surface!

Then, almost exactly one year later - the same rumours started to appear. A headline read:
Tory backbencher reveals plot to oust David Cameron

Bob Stewart says he was approached to run as 'stalking horse' while Zac Goldsmith reportedly offers seat to Boris Johnson

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/sep/09/david-cameron-plot

But 'The Boy' stayed on - nothing daunted! Success with the economy still eluded him! Popularity with the backbenchers was waning fast!

Now, we all know that 'The Boy' has one big characteristic. He's a PR man! And therefore he has all the flaws of other PR men! He just can't keep his mouth shut! Appropriate or not, PR men are born to open their mouths at every opportunity! They seem incapable of letting a sound-bite pass them by! 'Boy David' Cameron exemplifies this superbly!

** When a Tory shouts: "Sell off the forests" - he says: "Sell off the forests"- then he realises there's a furore - he back-tracks!

** Another Tory says "we need a badger cull" - he says: "Let's have a badger cull!" - then he postpones it!

** He announces there will be 'lower energy tariffs' only the next day to cast doubt on it!

** Pasty tax - caravan tax - secret courts - unannounced Ofsted inspections - coastguard centres - the list is a long and winding road!

See the pattern? Our PR man par excellence has never resisted the urge to say what a great idea each and every one was - only to retract them ignominiously!

Here we have a man who knows his own principles - announces them to the world - then drops them! That's what Arturo and I call an ideal political leader - we don't think!

The final charade has just recently been over the Leveson Inquiry. 'Boy David' Cameron implied that victims of hacking and other press misdemeanors would be uppermost in his mind when assessing the conclusions of Lord Leveson. On Wednesday, last week, he suggested that cross-party talks were going well. 'Wailing Lad' Clegg and 'Gromit-Lookalike' Ed Miliband seemed chuffed at the way things were going! Then - wham bang out of the blue:
Those involved in the Leveson talks from the Labour and Lib Dem side say they had no idea the Prime Minister was going to pull the plug on the cross-party discussions this morning until a conference call shortly before David Cameron’s hastily-arranged press conference.

This Spectator blog by Isabel Hardman left no doubt that this amazing turnaround was totally unexpected. The blog continued:
An angry Lib Dem source tells me:

‘It was completely out of the blue to be honest. Over the last few days the talks have been making gal (sic) progress and we were moving towards a deal. We thought a solution was possible.

http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2013/03/david-cameron-brings-leveson-debate-to-a-head-over-bill-hijack-fears/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=david-cameron-brings-leveson-debate-to-a-head-over-bill-hijack-fears

Now this may be a turnaround too far! Although not for all the backwoodsmen in his own Conservative Party who like nothing more than upsetting their Coalition partners.

However, there is still the threat of insurrection in the benches behind him and even on those sitting next to him. 'Leopard-skin Lady' Theresa May has been casting her 'pussy-toes' and 'kitten-heels' into the ring - only to be shooed away by 'Baby-face' Gove. The omens are intriguing - to say the least!

Can 'The Boy' survive? Will 'Georgy' from next door pull out the magic potion that will save his pal in the Budget? Follow this blog, friends, you'll hear it here!

So much excitement - Arturo and I can hardly wait for the outcome - after all the size and contents of the kitchen scraps, we so enjoy, depend on the result.

Bye from us both