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So what do you reckon?
Cameron the far sighted reformer, or Cameron the opportunist lying barsteward?
NB: In answering, please pay due attention to the definition of Conservative, as per Websters Dictionary : [i]
[/i]Of or pertaining to a political party which favors the conservation of existing institutions and forms of government, as the Conservative party in England; - contradistinguished from Liberal and Radical.
somewhere in between at a guess. He is very good at pressing the buttons that the press and public want pressed but I don't trust him an inch - and he is beholden to the right of his party
I have no idea. But we'll know soon enough (12 mths time) when he's PM.
Personally I think that he will [i]probably[/i] be the least worst Tory PM since Heath. But I could be wrong.
btw [i]all[/i] politicians are 'opportunists'. And I wouldn't read too much into a Party's name - when was the last time 'Labour' represented the 'labouring classes' ?
To add to my post :
I was previously worried that Cameron despite [i]possibly[/i] having 'One Nation' tendencies, would simply become hostage to the raving right-wing ranters who are still so prevalent in his party. However, I was genuinely impressed with how he dealt with Tebbit recently - he wasn't going to take no sh1t from the guy. And Tebbit is still a big gun - and the last vocal link with the halcyon/disastrous Thatcher era.
There is a real chance that the chinless one may have shot himself in the foot. His lot are hardly likely to agree to some of the reforms that he is proposing, so despite the careful non committal terminology being used, non delivery could blow up in his face and give the opposition a bat to blat him with.
and give the opposition a bat to blat him with.
You think there's going to be an opposition ? 😯
And who [i]exactly[/i] is going to lead this opposition ?
Bearing in mind that the 'New Labour' faction will have been utterly discredited for the mess in the first place.
I was thinking more from within his own party to be fair...
That man does like a bandwagon.
Blimey was that on expenses too??
I was thinking more from within his own party to be fair...
Right. That sounds more reasonable.
Because if anyone thinks this lot are rubbish in government, just wait until they are in opposition and they're trying to discredit all the right-wing policies which they themselves have been pursuing fot the last 12 years or so.
You can kiss goodbye to any opposition after May '10 as far as I'm concerned. Apart from possibly strikes and riots..... we're all going to be at their mercy.
I also think there well may be a credible opposition post election. Depends how many people wake up to the fact that Cameron is a least bad option as opposed to a good one and stand as independants. Shame the lib dems haven't found themselves yet though.
its all just a little bit of history repeating
its all just a little bit of history repeating
[b]"History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce"[/b]
Karl Marx said that, he did.
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I do enjoy a good farce though.