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David Cameron - a picture of indifference

July 9, 2008

While Gordon Brown stuffed his face in Japan, The Tory prime minister-in-waiting joined the queue to take a swipe at the nation's larger-than-life fatties, Guru notes.

But his latest stance that people who eat too much and those who are too poor ought to just stop doing it, while deserving of applause in some respects, could do with a bit of investigation from Yours Truly.

For as he tossed his Dave 'the rock' stone of truth into the mix, bestriding his glass-roofed palace of unattained potential, the big-foreheaded clown might well have consigned himself to the smashed-in conservatory of political dereliction. 

For there can only be room for one total buffoon on the right of the political spectrum... and newly elected London mayor Boris Johnson has already laid claim to that particular crown, with memorable outbursts about the habitual moping of the good folk of Liverpool, the hungry look in the eyes of Papua New Guinea's men and the... um... fat people of Portsmouth - described by the capital's new young Turk as "full of drugs, fat people and labour MPs".

Cammo's no BoJo, sadly. And his call for the fat and the unwashed to take responsibility for their actions, while not entirely short of support in Chez Guru, does reveal the true rabid right winger lurking beneath the cloak of middle-ground mediocrity.

For in an homage to the ice-cold, nay stupefyingly alabaster cinematic portrayal of Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray by the hardly-a-screen-legend and all-round 'cold fish' Hurd Hatfield, Cameron has reached into his attic to reveal his inner demon.

"We talk about people being at risk of obesity instead of talking about people who eat too much and take too little exercise," he said. And Yours Truly agrees in no undertain terms that it is the 'calorie crunch' rather than the 'credit crunch' that should be exercising the nation's collective love handles.

But he goes on: "We talk about people being at risk of poverty, or social exclusion: it's as if these things - obesity, alcohol abuse, drug addiction - are purely external events like a plague or bad weather." Guru couldn't have put it better himself. 

But then the red mist descends: "Of course, circumstances - where you are born, your neighbourhood, your school, and the choices your parents make - have a huge impact. But social problems are often the consequence of the choices that people make."

Hmmm. Poverty kind of precludes choice, particularly with regard to 'where you are born'. And unfortunately, most poorer people don't own their neighbourhood and do not have the option of paying for extra lessons or private education.

Warming to his subject Dave 'Tough Times' Camaroon continued: "There is a danger of becoming quite literally a de-moralised society, where nobody will tell the truth anymore about what is good and bad, right and wrong.

"That is why children are growing up without boundaries, thinking they can do as they please, and why no adult will intervene to stop them - including, often, their parents."

If it weren't for the fact that the only boundaries Cameron and his chums ever come across are on the edge of the vast estates owned by their families and their chums, Duplicitous Davros might have a point. Quite why no adult ever intervened to 'stop' the likes of James Hewitt or God's representative on earth Jonathan Aitken before they were able to blight the world with their existence will always remain a mystery.

And quite why the self-proclaimed man-of-the-people 'Our Dave' should shoot himself in the foot so expertly just as the the Brown Kamikazi is all set to dive and burn - no doubt shouting 'Tory! Tory! Tory!' as he tries to take out as many Conservatives as possible - is a bit of a puzzle. 

But then Yours Truly is pretty confident Dave the Dissembler doesn't really believe any of it, nor that any of the electorate actually listen to what he says. And, tragically, he's probably right - as long as Gord-help-us Brown keeps digging himself into a hole.

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Posted for your edification by Guru on July 9, 2008 2:04 PM |

Comments (1)

RobertDay:

I was under the impression that the main purveyor of the view that there was no room for morals in public life was the business world, where decisions were not made on the basis of right or wrong, but merely on the bottom line, the balance sheet and the profit & loss account. At least, that's what I've been told ad nauseam over the past 20 years or so.

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