Policy? David Cameron has lots. He's a new Neo-Con

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Times
By David Aaronovitch
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David Cameron came face to face with black urban Britain when Brian Kendricks, 49, an unemployed graphics artist, pounced on him. "I've been reading about what they say about your past in the newspapers," said Mr Kendricks, "we have all been bad boys." (PHOTO: NICK RAY)
AND I THOUGHT this was a Lenny Henry sketch on last night's news.....


Our correspondent delves deep into the columns, speeches and mutterings of the man who calls himself a media-tart and discovers what the candidate might bring to Downing Street

THE ascent of David Cameron has been so sudden that almost no one remembers having seen the shiny craft when it was being assembled back on the ground. Now people want to know, what is it made of? How fast can it go? What’s its mission? And who’s driving it?

It isn’t surprising that two things have happened since Cameron’s discovery. First, that many have doubted whether, in any real sense, he exists at all. And, second, that various competing and incompatible groups should be claiming that he most certainly does exist and that he is, emphatically, one of their own. So he is variously the heir to Clarkeism, he is the Mark III Eurosceptic, he is Thatcher’s grandson, he is Disraeli’s direct descendant.

But what does he say? Plenty, for Cameron is, in his own often repeated phrase, something of a “media tart”. Since becoming the MP for the semi-rural semi-paradise of Witney he has written regularly for his local newspaper, the Oxford Journal, for Guardian Unlimited, the online presence of the newspaper, and for various parish publications, as well as making many speeches. So it’s all there if, in the words of Stella Gibbons’s Mr Mybug, “ You cah to dig”.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,175-1837542,00.html

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1. Just drop the 'Neo' part of Neo-Con are you have the answer.

Two News of the World journos and one from the Scotsman are this weekend digging up the dirt of Thatcher goldenboy Cameron's class-A druggy past: in particular his rehab stay in an Arizona detox facility circa May 1990 when 'concerned relatives' bussed him out of the UK rather sharpish on the first flight out of Heathrow after a month long coke and heroin binge resulted in some Chelsea flat-mates pressing charges into misuse of their credit cards.

Allegedly, Cameron ran up over £10,000 worth of drug debts via dud cheques and plastic scams, that were hurriedly 'taken care of' on direct orders of John Major.

Don't know how much of this will ever hit the mainstream. But Cameron looks like another Thatcher cold-war era plant to me.

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2. I would love that to be true.

What have you got on Davis?

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6. Not much yet. BUT I see the News of the World is scoring pretty

well at the moment: Today's Anti-terror squad bust of a Dewsbury man has been attributed by the UK cops to the News of the World in current BBC story:

SNIP:
Man arrested over 7 July attacks


A 27-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the London bomb attacks of 7 July which killed 52 people.
Anti-terrorist branch officers picked the suspect up in Dewsbury in West Yorkshire. Officers are searching two residential addresses in the area.

The man is being held on suspicion of commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism and is being quizzed at a local police station.

The arrest follows a tip-off by the News of the World newspaper.

The Metropolitan Police said in a statement: "We thank the News of the World for bringing this matter to our attention and material passed to police by the newspaper is now being assessed by the Metropolitan Police anti-terrorist branch."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4369606.stm

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3. He touched a black person!

even if he doesn't look too thrilled about it.

Resigned sighs and the sound of Telegraphs being rustled all over the Home Counties.

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4. What next ? Maybe he will start talking to the working class.

I know that political judgements should be made on the basis of reason not prejudice but when ever I see Cameron on TV my hackles start to rise. It is a deep atavistic response to the sight of a hereditary enemy whose group has prospered over the centuries by both patronising and screwing over the lower orders. He just looks like a typical 'chinless' wonder. David Davis, for all his right wing views, just does not trigger the same response. He is simply as class traitor who has sold out in a desperate effort to get on. His sort are ten a penny in British politics, particularly in the Labour Party.

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5. David Aaronvitch accusing someone of being a Neo-Con?

Hmmmm.........pot calling kettle methinks.

You'd think that Aaronvitch would be happy that the Tories have found their own version of his idol Tony Blair.

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7. william hague

We've seen media tarts before; no matter. The old tory is dead, and
no amount of veneer and fakery will revive it.

Tony blair will chew this boy to bits in the commons, and then gordon
brown will give him a go, so that by the end of it all, he'll have
1 wife and 2 consorts (tony and gordon). And after all that shagging,
his bum'll be a bit sore. ;-)