David Cameron's Speech this morning

treliac

Kohoutek wrote: »

If depends if people (or the maybe more accurately the media) want the 'media-friendly' Blair/Cameron lookalike candidate or an 'older' politician that takes about hard policy issues - e.g. increasing taxes to close the deficit.

It appears that the image similarity with Blair may be going against Cameron. Cable seems to be grounded and trustworthy in comparison to Brown.

Some of us can look past the image.

1984ReturnsForReal_2

treliac wrote: »

It appears that the image similarity with Blair may be going against Cameron. Cable seems to be grounded and trustworthy in comparison to Brown.

Some of us can look past the image.

What? Smiling when you are a lying, cheating, thieving traitor will not wash anymore?

Kohoutek

treliac wrote: »

It appears that the image similarity with Blair may be going against Cameron. Cable seems to be grounded and trustworthy in comparison to Brown.

Some of us can look past the image.

Of course, I would expect all people on this forum are intelligent enough to look past the image, but I'm not sure whether the clear media bias against older candidates we've had in the last ten years has gone out of fashion yet.

wigglebeena

1984ReturnsForReal wrote: »

What? Smiling when you are a lying, cheating, thieving traitor will not wash anymore?

You made I laarf. In a bitter way.

Cleaver

Amcluesent, just for my own knowledge and so I can get ready, would it be possible to get an accurate time of when there will finally be social breakdown and either summer or winter riots? Your promises are starting to sound as hollow as Gordon Brown's. We seem to have postponed the great disease, riots and social breakdown in Summer 08, Winter 08, Summer 09, Winter 09 and I'm not seeing much evidence for Summer 10. Shall we go for Winter 10? I might go for Summer 12 if I were you. Fit it in with the olympics.


March 2008:

amcluesent wrote: »

Certainly another Winter of Discontent coming. But rather than the Unions, I wonder if we'll see a middle-class tax revolt and a refusal to pay and pay to get nothing back.

May 2008:

amcluesent wrote: »

Social breakdown leads to anarchy and looting when Police lose control of Northern towns in riots. Banana republics offer to send food rations to England. The Generals plan military coup to restore order.

July 2008:

amcluesent wrote: »

I haven't discounted summer riots yet!

August 2008:

amcluesent wrote: »

A Winter of Discontent looms.

December 2008:

amcluesent wrote: »

I predict a riot!

December 2008:

amcluesent wrote: »

I won't predict house prices. I do predict riots.

January 2009:

amcluesent wrote: »

Winter of discontent coming. Then summer riots.

February 2009:

amcluesent wrote: »

People should be on the streets. Hopefully the 'summer of rage' will start at the London G20.

May 2009:

amcluesent wrote: »

The social tension will certainly result in major riots in the urban areas and a collapse in business confidence as the FTSE100 tests 3,500 at the end of 2010.

...and now March 2010:

amcluesent wrote: »

I reckon that this summer will be one of civil unrest and city riots like we had back in the 1980s.

Spartacus_Mills

Cleaver wrote: »

Amcluesent, just for my own knowledge and so I can get ready, would it be possible to get an accurate time of when there will finally be social breakdown and either summer or winter riots? Your promises are starting to sound as hollow as Gordon Brown's. We seem to have postponed the great disease, riots and social breakdown in Summer 08, Winter 08, Summer 09, Winter 09 and I'm not seeing much evidence for Summer 10. Shall we go for Winter 10? I might go for Summer 12 if I were you. Fit it in with the olympics.


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...and now March 2010:

Crikey Amcluescent, it looks like you are being stalked !!!!

Cleaver

Spartacus_Mills wrote: »

Crikey Amcluescent, it looks like you are being stalked !!!!

I just put 'riot' and 'summer of discontent' against Amcluesent's name in the search thingy and it gave me about 50 posts...

1984ReturnsForReal_2

Cleaver wrote: »

I just put 'riot' and 'summer of discontent' against Amcluesent's name in the search thingy and it gave me about 50 posts...

Stalking then....

Sapphire

treliac wrote: »

It appears that the image similarity with Blair may be going against Cameron. Cable seems to be grounded and trustworthy in comparison to Brown.

Some of us can look past the image.

I think Cameron was made party leader when the economy was still superficially doing well, and when it was felt that showmen like Blair could win an election. Very bad judgement on the part of the Tories.

Now (hopefully) voters may want substance rather than style, but none of the main party leaders delivers in this respect (least of all Brown, who comes across as someone who is seriously unhinged and rather dangerous).

Rochdale_Pioneers

Cameron is stuck. On one hand he desperately needs to give some policies so that people have a positive reason to vote Tory. On the other hand the policies he has aren't popular enough on a wide enough scale to get him elected.

So all he can do is slag off Labour and Brown personally, hoping that he can rebuild the anti-Brown protest vote he had in mid-term. As more and more polls show this won't be enough be is getting increasingly shrill. Anyone has seen the last month's worth of PMQ's or even todays speech can see Cameron who comes across as a posh bully shouting personal abuse at Brown.

Frankly this is a suicidal strategy. Looks good if you are a hardened anti-Brown frother blinded by your hatred of a man in ZNL NuLiebor whose party has singlehandedly bankrupted Britain. Less good for the rest of the population who don't care much about politics and just want to be happy.