Certainly, after the beach towel fiasco in Cornwall, Cameron needs to display some gravitas for once! Gravitas is not his natural demeanor, like all PR men - he's desperate to please anyone who comes in sight! If you're that type, then smiles, winks and nods are the order of the day. We've seen plenty of those from Cameron, even when using a Mickey Mouse towel! What a bloomer, you might say: a Mickey Mouse towel for a Mickey Mouse prime Minister!
So what mischief might 'Boy David' be up to in the coming months? Well - he's due some U-Turns - he has to keep up the habit, surely. The obvious one is HS2! On July 24 2013, Cameron was reported in The Evening Standard as saying:...a new high-speed rail line is "essential" if the UK is to be a "winner in the global race"...."I think it will bring a big benefit to a region like the North West and I think it will bring a big benefit to our country for this reason: I think if we want to be in the front rank of countries, if we want to be a winner in what I call the global race, then we've got to have a really fast and efficient transport infrastructure. "I think when you look at what really makes a difference to the economic geography of a country it's those big decisions to build the big motorway, to build the high-speed line as we did through the Channel Tunnel. It's those decisions that can make a real difference to your country."http://www.standard.co.uk/news/transport/hs2-project-essential-says-david-cameron-8728728.html
That's telling 'em! Great convictions there! Smiles, nods and winks all round! But - hang on a bit, there are nasty mutterings in the wings:
Lord Ashcroft, a former party donor and an influential figure in the Conservatives, said that Mr Cameron “must scrap HS2 and scrap it now”. His intervention came after Alistair Darling, the former Labour chancellor and transport secretary, warned that the UK’s rail network could “fall apart” because of the spiralling cost of High Speed 2. Mr Darling described HS2 as “foolish” and warned that if it goes ahead, there will be no money for “maintaining and upgrading existing lines”.This was in the Telegraph on August 23 in an article by Peter Dominiczak. He continued:
The Government has estimated the cost of HS2, which will see 225mph trains running from London to Birmingham by around 2026, at £50 billion including rolling stock. However, the Institute for Economic Affairs has suggested the eventual bill would be £80 billion, and it has been reported that the Treasury is working on a figure of £73 billion.http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/road-and-rail-transport/10263360/Tory-peer-Lord-Ashcroft-calls-on-David-Cameron-to-scrap-HS2.html Already the signs of a U-Turn are looming! Then there's fracking! Another can of worms for our PR PM! Will he frack, or won't he frack? That is the question! Let's hope he doesn't dither like Hamlet. But no doubt he will soon announce: 'the Americans can frack if they want to - but the UK is NOT for fracking!' The biggest potential mischief of all, however, is Syria! To intervene or not to intervene. Now that really is a question. Already the armed forces have been so depleted under this muddled, hypocritical Coalition that they can now barely protect the UK from invasion! But will our laughing boy PR PM get the message? We can only trust that he will. Isn't it time that the UK should behave like Switzerland and keep out of other nation's business and just mind its own? Maybe, we could even learn to make cuckoo-clocks! After all, there's no money! No real army - navy or air force left! So, 'Boy David' Cameron get your Mickey Mouse priorities right. Set Georgy Osborne's nose to the grindstone and put the UK house in order! For the first time for months, Arturo and me are going ratting! Arturo is convinced he's smells vermin in No 10! No pizza for us tonight!
