Thursday 18 August 2011

Is it time for Cameron to go?

David Cameron's approach is unnecessarily moralistic in the extreme and his condemnatory rhetoric begs me to pose the question 'Is this the worst Prime Minster ever?'

I am dismayed that he has created a concoction of revenge, repression and stigmatisation as a response to the riots - and some of his 'tough' policy proposals are either wholly impractical, simply wouldn't be legally permissible or would clearly just make matters worse. He just seems to be spouting the first rightwing saloon-bar invective that comes into his head. I do not see any signs of dependable leadership let alone charismatic statesmanship with David Cameron and it is unsettling that the Home Secretary Theresa May, and others, sadly simply go along with the complete madness of reducing police numbers which in this current climate only confirms that view.

It’s barely over a year with this coalition government and the majority of the cuts have not taken place and with the recent large hike in unemployment this week; reducing police numbers begins to look like total madness.

David Cameron’s focus therefore on the evils of 'gangs', while addressing the subject of riots leaves him open to the charge that he was a member of the Bullingdon Club gang when he, Boris Johnson, George Osborne and others would habitually trash restaurants and country pubs in the Oxfordshire countryside would just chuck a load of money down as they were leaving to pay for the damage, because they could afford it. Let us not forget the drugs issue which Cameron never resolved and never gets mentioned any more!  However he is not the right person to lecture and moralise about the drugs and gangs culture.

With the dreary and bleak economic situation apparently set to continue indefinitely, it's hard to see a path to survival, let alone success for David Cameron.

Another year or two of this chaos and incompetence and the rolling stone of the News International phone hacking yet to reach is climax will surely damage the Prime Minster even more. It’s like with the Bullingdon Club gang he chose the wrong set of friends.

We know Cameron loves foxhunting and delights in shooting helpless birds and deer for 'sport' and would doubtless love to be able to join his fellow hyper-privileged fellow gang members in paying thousands to be allowed to blast grouse to bits from the 'Glorious Twelfth' on Scottish moors.

Just how can the Liberal Democrats remain supporting his leadership when George Osborne states that the higher income tax rates may need to be removed as they are not collecting sufficient revenue? This is down to the many and varied tax avoidance schemes in place. The rich have become like the Greeks, never paying there fair share of taxes. This is another centre piece of Liberal Democrat policy that is being thrown out of the Coalition.

The country did not vote for this style of Coalition government and the austerity measures they are engaged in; there is no mandate for this course of action. We are not like Greece or Ireland and I don't think Britain is broken or sick either. I think it's fraying at the edges in certain areas, and I think anti-social behaviour has become far more common and tolerated more. It's not broken but a portion of society seems to have lost the right to live their lives free from harassment and abuse. Another portion seems to have no stake or say in our society and hence is marginalised and drops under the Radar of both the enforcement and welfare agencies.

 Britain is not broken, not yet at any rate and we need to build for the future and that means spending money, and to quote our very own David Cameron, “We can’t go on like this!” No David we can’t go on like this and this applies to you!

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