We had to laugh – even though it’s far from amusing.
Despite the touchy-feely ‘green tree’ image he’s trying to project, the Eton toff Cameron was never going to change the basic Tory animal from being a sleazy, moneygrabbing, self-seeking con-man.
Citizen readers are no doubt as shocked as we are by this revelation. Who’da thought it?! After months of revelations over sleazy upper-class Tory MPs defrauding the taxpayer over their expenses, you’d have been forgiven for assuming that all MPs would be whiter-than-white from now on, albeit with a few brown stains around the edges.
Nevertheless, it seems that well over a fifth of prospective Tory candidates who think they have a good chance of becoming MPs at the next election, are already working as lobbyists or public relations consultants on behalf of businesses and other interests. Would that be in exchange for money, do you think?
“Several acknowledged that they had set up meetings for clients with Shadow ministers, MPs and officials. More said that they had been asked to provide advice on the party’s direction. A few admitted to having pressed clients’ cases to Tory frontbenchers”, says the Times.
So much for Cameron’s promise to usher in a “new politics”. Once a party of sleaze, always a party of sleaze…
What a bunch of fools are those who heap scorn on the NHS.
Tory MEP Hannan especially.
The Tories have always tried to destroy it through under-funding, and Labour are now too timid to raise taxes to pay for it properly, so a wonderful idea has been bodged up… by politicians.
Those of us who have had cause to use it will admit that there are some minor faults caused by under-funding and an over-dependence on immigrant labour to staff it (the fault of our own morally bankrupt society, and poor educational standards in schools where every child wants to be a pop star, overpaid footballer or hairdresser rather than a nurse or doctor…).
But when it comes to saving lives – for that is what the NHS does, every minute of every day of every year – our National Health Service is a shining gem in the flawed setting we call modern Britain.
The Citizen has reason to be grateful for the wonderful care provided by the NHS and its poorly-treated staff.
The British taxpayer has paid for the NHS over many years and now we’re in danger of letting every idle immigrant, asylum-seeker and freeloader milk it dry at our expense. Sit in the waiting room of an NHS doctor’s surgery or hospital and you’ll see the flock of foreigners queueing up to have their free medical care, operations and drugs… at our expense.
Don’t let these fools and redneck American Republicans (Sarah Palin, for one…) criticise a British institution that most countries would dearly love to have as their own.
If you read the Tory blog, ‘conservativehome‘, you’ll see they’re deluding themselves into thinking that David ‘call me Dave’ Cameron has escaped his ‘toff’ tag just because Labour aren’t using it as a jibe now.
(Cameron is shown, left, next to his ancestor, King William IV – also known as ‘Silly Billy’ – who twice tried unsuccessfully to force a Tory government on the country, in 1832 and again in 1834/35.)
Cameron IS a toff in the traditional sense of the term because of his privileged background, and trying to shrug off the image is pointless. It is precisely because Cameron, Osborne and many other Tories have this privileged, upper-class experience of life – and an obvious vested interest in preserving it – that their claim to have the welfare of ordinary citizens at heart is so unconvincing.
Why would the Tories be so sensitive about the ‘toff’ thing if they weren’t desperately embarrassed about it in electoral terms? They know it will lose them the votes of those who just can’t identify with their upper-class values, so they – and Dave – are trying to kid us that he’s one of us really. That – in their own words – they’re not the ‘nasty party’ any more. Trying to kid us that what Conservatives are interested in is mending our ‘broken society’. Right…
Read more of Tories desperate for Cameron to lose ‘toff’ image.
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He never gives up, does he?
Tory ‘call me Dave’ Cameron – descended from King William IV – really thinks that the way to curry favour with the British public is to play the ‘lower, lower!’ game on bank bonuses. Dave is trying to underbid the government on the banks’ bonus payout shambles, which just shows once again what a vacuous political opportunist he is.
Keeping in favour with banking fatcats, underpaid bank staff (can’t believe we said that) AND the British taxpayer & voter must be a real dilemma. Give it a few hours, though, and no doubt that dynamic Scottish duo (surely some kind of oxymorons…) Brown and Darling will come back with an even lower bid… let’s cap bonuses at £1000? £50? £4.50? How low can you go and not lose the bank clerk vote, while still retaining any credibility with the rest of us?
The answer to the question about ‘how-much-should-we-allow-them-to-have?’ is NOTHING.
Not for the fatcats. Not for the bank clerks. They’re all still bloody lucky even to have jobs when so many of us HAVE LOST OURS because of their greed and mis-management.
Read the lips, Dave. NOTHING, nada, zilch. Got it now? Pass it on to Gordon and Alistair.
