Pottymouth’ Cameron knows what he’s doing

By Greg McDonald

If David Cameron’s years in PR taught him anything it’s that he needn’t fret about being the first British political leader to turn the nation’s airwaves blue.

Cameron’s “slip” – swearing in a down-wid-da-kidz kinda way on a down-wid-da-kidz kinda radio show was about as accidental as that occasion when Tony Blair was photographed taking his guitar to work in the middle of an election campaign – y’know, in case he felt like strumming some Oasis tunes and “chilling out”.

And far from signalling the death of Conservatism, Cameron’s on-air-swear was merely evidence that, as their man heads off on his summer break, the Tories have every right to relax, for the one thing Cam’s political brilliance has turned blue in the last four years is the polls.

Indeed such is the red-faced desperation in Labour ranks today that Peter Mandelson has started volunteering Gordon Brown for live TV debates, and bookies have slashed odds on Mandy himself running the country by Christmas.

Yet short of Tony Blair dusting down his six-string for a comeback it’s hard to envisage anything now standing in the way of Britain electing its first ex-PR PM.

Was Dave’s deliberate slip an insult to Absolute Radio listeners’ intelligence? Absolutely.

But it was the sort of brilliant politics which has made Cam as sure-fire a bet for PM as that “straight kinda guy” Tony Blair looked a year before he was strumming “Wonderwall” in Downing Street.

Comments

[Shafted Britain]

Reinstate Christmas

[les lee]

blair used prescott ... brown uses mandleson ..
both fool the youger generation all the time

[winston churchill ( deceased)]

spot on ..stranger..
just as tony bliar used the idiot john prescott to take the flack and divert what bliar was doing to this country SO GORDON BROWN MAY BE DOING THE SAME THING BUT USING MANDLESON ...... FOR A HUGE PAYOFF NO DOUBT!!

[Britain is now FINISHED as a nation.]

Britain is now a mirror image of what Africa and India was like all those hundreds of years ago.

Britain is now being plundered by the rest of the world as Africa and India was when they were raped and pillaged by the civilised world.

Both Africa and India managed to live out an existense needing nothing from the outside world until it was all taken away by greed.

Britain is now feeling the backlash as the whole world has risen up and colonised our one proud cities and appropriated all our industries and lifeblood utilities to the level that the British can not even afford their own homes any more.

Britain is now FINISHED as a nation.

We cant even get the last man leaving to turn off the light because we cant afford to switch the light on anymore.

People like Thatcher,Wilson,Brown,Cameron and ALL THE BANKING INDUSTRY have been the main contributors of its demise

We cant even give up because we have nothing left to give.

[Stranger things have happened where mandleson is involved.]

Perhaps brown has invited randy mandy back to step into his shoes and take the flack for all the wrongs that have been inflicted on the indigeonous British underdogs.

Mandy would probably do anything and has probably made a deal with both sides to really finish off what his aunty margaret started all those years ago to get the working classes BACK IN THEIR PLACE.

Could brown be aligning himself with the B LIAR to be his consort in europe?

Stranger things have happened where mandleson is involved.

[VOTE ALL THE WASTERS OUT]

The BRITISH people should vote for ALL NEW "BRITISH" candidates in council and parliamentary elections so that the system can be cleansed of ALL the dishourable councillors and mps that have been taking the country for a ride.

YES there will be a learning curve for ALL the new councillors and mps but that has to be a lot better than the DOWNWARD SPIRAL that this country is in at the moment because of all the rife dishonesty and corruption in government and banking.

[WHERE HAS ALL THE MONEY GONE ?]

Bob is correct.

FOREIGNERS OWN IT ALL except a very small proportion.

Even the items manufactured here are made in foreign owned factories with foreign made componenets.

The thing is
WHERE HAS ALL THE MONEY GONE
??????????????????????????????????

SOMEBODY HAS SKIMMED BILLIONS UPON BILLIONS FROM BRITAIN OVER THE LAST 30 YEARS OR MORE

[Why should it wrong]

Why should it wrong to commit personal suicide when

PARLIAMENT AND MPS HAVE BEEN SUICIDAL FOR YEARS????

[That may be how parliament is run anyway.]

That may be how parliament is run anyway.

What else do they use their expenses for?

[ON EXPENSES of course.]

Perhaps we could sell off the houses of parliament to the french and rename it

THE HOUSES OF ILL REPUTE.

There could be dancing girls around the queens throne and little rooms where our Dishonourable mps could partake of comforts with the lady of their choice.

Black Rod could be the chucker out man.

ON EXPENSES of course.

[Bob]

Until we really know who is in control we will continue on the slippery slope to exstinction .
Who owns the banks , the newspapers , the supermarkets ? etc .........

We,ve only got ourselves to blame , Nationalists have been telling the truth for years , nobody heeded their warning , now we will reap the consequences of your apathy .
Thanks very much , you spineless bunch of .....

[conservatives are planning to sell off Radio 1.]

AND NOW the conservatives are planning to sell off Radio 1.

There certainly will be NOTHING left of this country soon.

Would REAL BRITISH people sell off everything that they own so they can put the money into the expenses pot?

SMARMY TWOFACED LYING CHEATING POLITICIANS THE LOT OF THEM.

[Buy British ??????????]

Buy British ??????????

There is nothing made in Britain any more except babys and loads of money for FOREIGN COMPANIES.

Just about ALL manufacturing that is left is owned by FOREIGNERS.

We dont even own the WATER we drink.

THAT IS THE BIGGEST DAMN DISGRACE OF ANY GOVERNMENT.

[Xena]

Well, just buy British and the British have now got to play the game.

This is a very deep hole somebody dropped us down.

[OR WILL HE STOP THE ROT?????]

Now that the bank of china and other FOREIGN banks are starting to offer housing loans at less than the British thieving banks are NOT giving out we might as well close this country down for good.

Brown will allow any foreign influence and control in this country.
Will Cameron also allow further takeover of the British economy by FOREIGNERS if the tories get elected???

OR WILL HE STOP THE ROT?????

[Typical British mentality.]

Immigration officials are scared to refuse admission to the millions of illegals because they fear they will be branded as racist.

Typical British mentality.

[dementia]

ALL politcians say what the people want to hear and make promises UNTIL they get elected to councils or parliamaent.

Once in office they are hit with an attack of dementia.

They FORGET the people who put them there and totaly look after themselves..

A promise from a politician is worth less than gnats p.

[annie]

noooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!shut me up,i nearly got my box out,its late and im tired,but a lot said is right you know,but us normals cant win,we have to fight for everything,keep talking for me your all brilliant,nite all xxxx

[Mandlesons only back to share in the spoils.]

Mandlesons only back to share in the spoils.

Strange how they all queue up to form a circle for him no matter what he has done.

He must be good for something.

[FOUL LANGUAGE IS A NORMAL PART OF TV]

Foul language is the NORM for TV these days.

Big Brother is a total disgrace for anytime broadcasting with ALL the foul language that is allowed to be aired.

That program is the pits when it comes both contestants and their language.

The lowest of the low using the lowest of the low language broadcast at all hours without a care in the world by the program makers or the televison broadcasting authorities.

So why should Cameron and Clarkson be castigated for their ODD swearword????????

[john]

After reading this tory claptrap it only proves that so many tory supporters need a history lesson, i am a socialist but not a fan of NEW labour, please vote tory and you will get what you all deserve and will live to regret.

[stew]

Thatcher did what needed to be done, right or wrong.
the unions and their layabout members killed the industries.

[David Leeds]

“I will not allow house prices to get out of control and put at risk the sustainability of the future”.

Brown went on to say that he did not want a return to ”instability, speculation and negative equity” of the 1980’s and 1990’s.

Average house prices (selling) in Devon;

1999 = £69k
2007 = £227,854

This was all allowed to happen because of a complete lack of regulation actively encouraged by Brown and Labour.

Huge packages of toxic mortgage debt, [cdos'] are what caused the banks to crash.

Most Bank shares crashed by over 80-90% in value.

But Brown Bailed them out with the taxpayers money.

It should have been houses that crashed in value by a large amount.

Instead Labour believe you should all pay for houses. Even if you are not on the housing ladder.

Its theft. Labour are theives.This is not a slur. How else can you possibly look at this?

If you are a teenager or in your twenties, send Labour a message at the next General Election.

Vote them out.

They want you to become indentured slaves.

Labour are EVIL

[David Leeds]

Mike. Please stop speaking out of your backside.

The complete lack of regulation, [following Browns creation of the FSA, which destroyed the ability of the BOE to 'watch' inflation,] created the rise in the housing market, which really took off around 1999.

'From 1999 onwards mortgage-backed securities, [AAA rated financial products,] which already represented one layer of packaging of debt, started to be repackaged into CDOs, thus creating a Russian doll product: a tranched, packaged product each component of which was itself a tranche of a packaged product.
Putting mortgage-backed securities rather than corporate bonds or loans inside CDOs might seem a small step.
But In 1999 Bayerische Landesbank, which had become involved in the US mortgage market, approached J.P. Morgan to package $14 billion of bundles of mortgages.

Whilst Thatcher put the emphasis on financial services as a pose to manufacturing, Labour have destroyed this country.

They have quite literally done more economic damage to the UK than Hitler did during WW2.

Do not vote Labour.
Our cabinet were all communists who admired elements of the soviet system at uni, and have now brought our country to its knees.

To compare the what the tories did to what labour have done is an evil joke.

Labour let house prices spiral from £65k in 1999 to double that figure in 2003!
Just four years later. Yet in 1997 Brown stated
'I will not let house prices get out of control'

Labour want you to slave in your job till your eighty to pay for the debt that they created through sheer incompetence and greed.

Labours actions have been truly truly evil.

And your childrens childrens children will pay for Labours trul evil lack of oversight.

I am an engineer, and have been unable to afford a bedsit for a decade. All because I was not stupid enough to borrow TEN TIMES !!! my salary.

Ive wasteed tens of thousands in rent, all because i did not get onto the hosuing ladder around 1999.

Where as my local Labour MP made hundreds of thousands 'flipping houses' whilst ignoring our emails for her to help bring house prices back to being affordable.

Labour truly are scum.

[Mike]

As Jimbo quite rightly says, the Tories coming back will be sad for all with an IQ higher than 80. Go back to school kids, go really find out how Thatcher destroyed the working class in this country and left us with a broken bitter society that we still suffer from today.

P.S It's a 'global economic crisis'... so therefore, for you mentally challanged Torries, it is not the British government's fault.....

[jinste]

Hey Jimbo-Britain did NOT "collectively"want rid of the Tories.Tony Blair actually got LESS votes in 97 than John Major got in 92,so there was no actual landslide vote.The Tory voters stayed at home disillusioned by Majors weakness and inability to control his Cabinet and backbenchers,hence Labours large majority.Dont forget millions voted Libdem as well,and also for fringe parties like the Greens.There was no appetite for Labour.I do agree Cam wont be much better-too obsessed with PC,minorities,europe,looking trendy and"down with da kids",etc.

[Paul]

has anyone noticed that politicians have sent nearly 400 people to their deaths in iraq and afganistan, paying each soldier less than the average expenses the mps were stealing.

i hope that someone picks this up and spreads the news, the politicians should be hung for it

[jinste]

Britain under the Tories?Less political correctness,health and safety pish,bins emptied once a week,no illegal wars,not a target for Muslim extremists,no"human rights"crap,no id cards,financially solvent,a banking and pension industry the envy of the world,less crime,less drugs,less teenage mums.Less immigration,less asylum seekers.More post offices,stuff in pounds and ounces,wasnt £77 for a passport,cheaper petrol/diesel/road tax.Less cctv,nanny state/big brother state.Wasnt paradise-but better than Browns Britain.

[Richard]

I can remember pre Thatcher days like the endless stikes that went on week after week that made us look like idiots and almost brought the country to a stand still and let inflation run at around 17%. We were the laughing stock of the world, till Maggie Thatcher stepped in, took Europe by the scruff of there necks demandings rights for Britain instead of bowing to them. She took on the might of the unions that were blackmailing the whole country i.e. the miners and anybody else and came out on top. She gave everybody the opportunity to buy there own house as well as reducing taxes. There was no such thing as illegal immigrants no back door taxes which labour have thrived on for the last decade or so and she even kept the Falklands British which the Labour party would still be talking about if it was left to them.
If Cameron achieves Half of what Thatcher did then he can regard himself as a success

[Paul]

My God

i have lived through all types of cretin running the country, this one will be the worst, what kind of nation are we that will still allow David Cameron to be Prime minister even though we know he also ripped off the expenses just the same as the rest of these creeps, has anyone noticed that politicians have sent nearly 400 people to their deaths in iraq and afganistan, paying each soldier less than the average expenses the mps were stealing

[jinste]

Yes,I remember Britain under the Tories-financially solvent,superb banking industry,best pension industry in all of Europe,less political correctness,not a target for muslim extremists,no"human rights"crap,2 million less population,no billions wasted on non-existant global warming,bins emptied every week,a fishing industry,not many illegal immigrants or asylum seekers,less drug addiction,less kow towing to minorities,no putting up with hordes of gypos,etc,etc,.Wasnt paradise-but better than now!

[Malcolm]

Thatcher destroyed the spirit and fortitude of the British people and the next Tory Government will eat them for breakfast.

And the irony is that it is those same British people who will blindly vote the Tories in at the next election.

You think it's bad NOW!!

[Jimbo]

Has everyone forgotten Britain under the Tories? Has everyone forgotten how much as a collective nation we couldn't wait to remove them from power?? First Boris Johnson, now this slimy piece of work, well, if thats what the county wants, again, then thats what it deserves. It's sad for anyone with an IQ higher than 80.

[ivy]

I thought Mandleson was already in charge!!
As for Dave, he's one of the most cynical politicians I've ever seen. I don't mind a toff as long as they don't pretend they're anything else.

[Simon Peck]

There is a saying that goes something like Better to be silent and thought a fool than to open your mouth and prove it. David Cameron should take a vow of silence. He should also learn that nothing is more embarrassing than a middle aged man trying to be cool.

[Steve]

Yeh - like he talks like that ever day - know what I mean

[Robert Hantke]

Cameron`s like all tories....A cocksucker.

[Alan]

Sham Cam is the most cynical politician ever. If you lot elect him you deserve everything you get

[bummer]

wot .. like licking mandlesons rrrs ??

[Bob]

Come the uprising i,m sure Gregs talent will be put to good use !!

[THEY all do.]

They all do.