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Guy Whitey Corngood

(26,500 posts)
Wed May 6, 2015, 01:54 PM May 2015

David Cameron's best hope is that SNP MPs constitutionally evaporate

A campaign that never promised a winner has dragged itself to a climax. David Cameron looks done for on the numbers but in the atmosphere of stalemate and bravado in these last days, that does not seem to mean he will leave No 10.

He is being urged to hole up in there, like the hero of a Hollywood siege, no matter what the voters decide. For his anxious backers, the prime minister is a man born to rule and born to stay.

Even during the campaign’s final push, his sleeves rolled up for the fight, Cameron seems oddly untouched by office. Being president lent even George W Bush a kind of grave distinction. Obama grew grizzled and grey. But after five years of running a nation of 65 million, Cameron is as pink and sleek as he always was.

Only his politics have hardened. In this contest, the surface is glossy, the policies are tame and the strategies are brutal. Neither Labour nor the Conservatives have offered an earth shattering programme but Cameron has bet the future of the United Kingdom to win a second victory.

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/may/06/david-cameron-nicola-sturgeon-mps-uk-general-election-snp

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David Cameron's best hope is that SNP MPs constitutionally evaporate (Original Post) Guy Whitey Corngood May 2015 OP
For his anxious backers, the prime minister is a man born to rule and born to stay. T_i_B May 2015 #1
Do you think he'll pull it off? My gut tells me he might. nt Guy Whitey Corngood May 2015 #2
I hope not.... T_i_B May 2015 #3
Not superstitious but I'll keep my fingers crossed for everyone over there. At least Guy Whitey Corngood May 2015 #4

T_i_B

(14,737 posts)
1. For his anxious backers, the prime minister is a man born to rule and born to stay.
Thu May 7, 2015, 09:53 AM
May 2015

That's kinda the whole problem with David Cameron for many people.

Guy Whitey Corngood

(26,500 posts)
4. Not superstitious but I'll keep my fingers crossed for everyone over there. At least
Thu May 7, 2015, 10:22 AM
May 2015

the sane people. Good luck

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