This week, Arturo and I were nearly mincemeat! If it hadn't been for Arturo's ever alert whiskers, the AA rescue vehicle would have squashed us. We were having a quiet siesta under
'Boy David' Cameron's Jaguar - the engine was nicely warm, you understand. However, it seems it was not in any state to see Mr Cameron on the road. As
Tim Walker reported in
The Telegraph:
Rather like Basil’s car in Fawlty Towers, David Cameron’s official Jaguar would appear to have a nasty habit of packing up just when its owner is under maximum pressure.
My man in No 10 assures me, however, that the PM resisted the temptation to “punish” the vehicle by bashing it about its bonnet – Basil Fawlty-style – with a branch.
“We had to have an AA pick-up truck come to Downing Street and tow it away,” he says. “It is the sort of thing that makes for an awful picture opportunity, but, so far as I know, we got away with it.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/david-cameron/10936075/David-Cameron-suffers-a-breakdown.html
Our
'Boy David' Cameron, the beloved Prime Minister, has indeed been suffering a number of breakdowns in the last few weeks - and not of the merely mechanical kind! His problem seems to be more fundamental. It is one of flawed judgement. In most people, flawed judgement has an impact on themselves and their families - possibly their work. However, flawed judgement in a
Prime Minister has an impact on the entire country. "Where was his judgement flawed?" Do I hear you ask? Let me explain.
Cameron is a poor judge of other people. Maybe this is inherent in having been to
Eton College. Most old Etonians appear to be so totally self-confident that they assume anyone coming into their environs will abase themselves at their feet and wish to serve. Not a sensible attitude since the days of forelock-tugging are long gone. In fact, most people are now so self-obsessed, since
Thatcher held sway, that the general mantra is '
me first!'.
'Boy David' Cameron assumed that when
Andy Coulson was put forward as an ideal communications expert, everything was hunky-dory. It wasn't! As
Nick Davies recently wrote in
The Guardian:
When Coulson was hired as the Tory leader’s media adviser, in late May 2007, he gave assurances to Cameron and to George Osborne that there was nothing more that they needed to know about the scandal, which had ended with the jailing four months earlier of Clive Goodman as a “rogue reporter” who had hacked royal phones without the knowledge of anybody else at the News of the World.
Detailed evidence that directly challenged that claim was already in police hands at that time. A clear hint was available on the public record in comments made by the judge who had sentenced Goodman. But, according to senior Tory officials, Cameron made no attempt to seek a police briefing or to check the court record, even when he became prime minister and took Coulson into Downing Street. Cameron has been accused of employing Coulson in spite of his past in order to build a bridge to Rupert Murdoch.
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jun/24/-sp-andy-coulson-verdict-questions-remain-for-david-cameron-and-others
As the recent trial verdict has shown, more questions should have been asked. It might have saved Cameron the need to apologise so publicly for his mistakes! However, things could only get worse, as a result of his past errors of judgement.
When Cameron became leader of the
Tory Party one of his first moves was to lead to the problems he is now having with the
EU.
Ian Traynor wrote in the
Guardian in 2009:
David Cameron is coming under fierce criticism from centre-right allies in Europe for his decision to ditch mainstream conservatism in the EU in order to lead a new movement of Eurosceptics.
In advance of next month's European elections, the Tory leader came under fire from senior figures over his move to end 17 years of alliance with the European People's party (EPP), which groups the centre-right in the parliament, and to establish a caucus of "European Conservatives". In separate developments:
• Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany appeared to threaten to withhold cooperation from the Conservatives.
• Cameron's close ally, Fredrik Reinfeldt, the Swedish prime minister, warned the Tory leader that he faced isolation. Reinfeldt called on Cameron to reverse his decision to quit the EPP.
• A senior Czech politician added that his liberal rightwing ODS party, a key Cameron partner, was having second thoughts about joining the Tories in the new caucus being plotted.
• Hans-Gert Poettering, the German Christian Democrat who presides over the European parliament, angrily described Cameron as untrustworthy.
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2009/may/11/conservative-eu-david-cameron
It seems even the odds (ODS) were against it! But the chickens have just come home to not only roost but roast! It is Cameron who was roasted by the other members of the EU. In fact he was roasted to a frazzle! Again it was a case of poor judgement.
Cameron led his
Tory Party into the EU to form the
ECR (European Conservatives & Reformists). They had already been dubbed an "
extreme right wing organisation". Recently, the ECR admitted the very right-wing
Danish People's Party and
The Finns Party into their ranks! This did not go down well with other less '
rightist' parties in the EU. Despite this,
Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany, was still sympathetic to many of Cameron's aspirations.
Then - blow me down! Call me a Charlie! Our insightful 'Boy David' Cameron blew a great big raspberry right up her nose! His group - the ECR - only went and admitted the
German Alternative für Deutschland Party into the group! Poor old Merkel must have been gob-smacked! She must have been infuriated. The
German Alternative für Deutschland Party are her opponents. Any sympathy for Cameron's aims was gone - members of her own party could not tolerate Cameron's actions. For more information on these complex issues take a look at:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/democracylive/house-of-lords-28037012
Cameron was doomed - but had neither the wit nor the wisdom to read the entrails! So when he needed allies to help him snooker a certain
Mr Juncker's election as
European Commission President, what do you think happened? You're right, they vanished! Only
Hungary voted the way Cameron wanted. What a mess! What an embarrassment! Cameron and the whole UK looked a right load of Charlies!
So was our boy 'up the pole'? Well, this is the surprising thing! It seems that there are many who have as flawed a power of judgement as the PM. This was shown by
Peter Dominiczak, Assistant Political Editor of The Telegraph who wrote the headline:
David Cameron boosted in the polls by 'Juncker Effect':
The Conservatives get a poll boost in the wake of David Cameron's failed bid to block Jean-Claude Juncker becoming president of the European Commission
He went on to say:
The Conservative Party has enjoyed a poll bounce in the wake of David Cameron’s failed attempt to prevent Jean-Claude Juncker becoming president of the European Commission.
The so-called “Juncker Effect” has seen the Tories overtake Labour in a poll conducted by Lord Ashcroft, the former Conservative party deputy chairman.
... Stephen O'Brien, the MP for Eddisbury, made reference to the German aircraft manufacturer Junkers as he made a joke about World War 2.
He said that he hoped “the Prime Minister takes inspiration from the fact that in a previous battle of Britain, we saw off many Junkers before”.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/david-cameron/10936707/David-Cameron-boosted-in-the-polls-by-Juncker-Effect.html
"Ah, mi old pal," Arturo said shaking his head, "there's nowt so queer as folk!"
He's right, of course! It seems many others have as flawed a power of judgement! Maybe it's something to do with hope springing eternally that, in the end, we're bound to win. Even after
England having crashed out of the
World Cup - after all - there's still
Andy Murray!
Me and Arturo, having survived the encounter with the AA vehicle need our nerves calmed, before the removal van arrives - we're going to the Savoy kitchen tonight for a nibble or two.
Bye
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