I really don’t think anyone (sensible) is claiming that Nigeria and Afghanistan are low-corruption countries and that Cameron is being unfair to them with his comments.
Whether it’s appropriate for the PM of the country hosting the anti-corruption summit to be making those comments with the Head of State (gawblesser) and the Archpriest of the state sanctioned fairy-tale cult while being filmed and recorded is what’s in question. IMO, while not exactly the sin of the century, it’s a bit stupid to be talking so loosely – does nothing to get the leaders of those countries on one’s side, alienates them further and allows them to go back to their people saying that the white man still thinks they’re just a bunch of piccaninnies who can’t be trusted to manage their own affairs – look, the PM said it to the Queen. This is the power of words and why they should be chosen carefully.
I don’t know why anyone would be trying to swing it round to simply defending the veracity of what he said – it’s like some people have an agenda or something. Christ on a bike, I can only imagine the right-wing-nut-job circle jerk we’d be having this morning if Corbyn uttered something similar.
Cameron “worked” in PR – yet every so often he makes gaffes like these – it’s almost as if he was employed in spite of his skills, not because of them. Although I’m sure all those firms never employ mates and sons of mates and same-school-tie-wearing individuals because of who they are, not what they can do. Those days are long gone.