Ask not for whom the clock ticks, David Cameron

D'oh! David Cameron realises he has just described as problems all the conditions he is trying to create in the UK, after his speech to the United Nations. This photograph used because I couldn't find one of him sticking his own foot in his mouth.

Here are a couple of items on the Guardian website that are worth putting side-by-side:

John O’Farrell, Labour’s losing candidate in the Eastleigh by-election, has written about how uncomfortable it was to be subjected to the “two-minute hate” on the social media – and David Cameron has been given a two-month warning by members of his party.

If he doesn’t revive their fortunes in the budget or the May local government elections, he could be out on his ear.

“And not a moment too soon!” I hear you cry, as the One Nation that Ed Miliband wants to build.

Apparently it will take 46 letters to Graham Brady, the chairman of the Conservative Party’s backbench 1922 committee, to trigger a leadership contest.

Already, according to tweets by Tory vice-chairman Michael Fabricant, there are rumblings from the lower ranks. “The Conservative voice is muffled and not crisp,” he tweeted. “It does not clearly project Conservative core policies or principles.”

Those of us who follow developments in social security legislation would probably agree, adding that they seem more like Nazi core policies (I make this point for a twofold purpose – firstly because it’s accurate; secondly because it really riles right-wingers who think Coalition benefits policy is a good idea). The trouble with that is, we can be sure as mustard that Mr Fabricant would urge a move to the right.

What is more right-wing than a Nazi?

Don’t bother trying to answer that – Mr Fabricant is likely to be about as significant to future Tory policy as a snowflake is to the temperature on the sun. He has undermined the Tory plan to play down the significance of being beaten by UKIP and the comedy Prime Minister’s insistence that he will not leave (what he seems to think is) the centre ground.

Of course, the budget is not Gideon George Osborne’s strong suit – let’s face it, the economy isn’t his strong suit and he’s supposed to be the Chancellor of the Exchequer – so the immediate future isn’t looking good for Call-Me-(Please)-Dave. Mr 0 was scraping the barrel with the pasty tax last year, and after his ideologically-based economic tinkering forced the nation into the longest depression in decades, it seems unlikely he will have anything revolutionary to pull from that famous red briefcase.

That leaves the local elections in May. Mid-term local elections – and, as the Tories told us within the past 24 hours, sitting governments rarely do well during mid-term elections.

Tick, tock, Tory boy.

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10 Comments

  1. Thomas March 1, 2013 at 11:02 pm - Reply

    As Bob Dylan said, the times they are a changing.

  2. jack johnson (@jackjoh01219520) March 2, 2013 at 2:31 am - Reply

    There is no need to beat about the bush with these bastards,
    thanks for telling it like it is,it makes all the difference to us.

  3. rainbowwarriorlizzie March 2, 2013 at 3:21 am - Reply

    David Cameron has been given a two-month warning by members of his party.

    If he doesn’t revive their fortunes in the budget or the May local government elections, he could be out on his ear.

    “And not a moment too soon!” I hear you cry, as the One Nation that Ed Miliband wants to build.

    Apparently it will take 46 letters to Graham Brady, the chairman of t
    he Conservative Party’s backbench 1922 committee, to trigger a leadership contest.

    Time to put pen to paper to Mr Graham Brady, Chairman: Conservative Party 1922 Backbenches Committee…So lets try and push this through so we can shot of this Cruel, Inhumane, Dictatorial Nazi PM Con-Dem Nation in May 2013 .

    We need a NO Confidence vote in the government for a new Election!!!!!!!

    • jack johnson (@jackjoh01219520) March 2, 2013 at 10:15 am - Reply

      Very well said Mike, onwards and upwards.Mind the Fib Dems
      could bring the government down next week if they had the balls
      and morals.

  4. rainbowwarriorlizzie March 2, 2013 at 3:22 am - Reply
  5. Smiling Carcass March 2, 2013 at 4:50 am - Reply

    “Of course, the budget is not Gideon George Osborne’s strong suit – let’s face it, the economy isn’t his strong suit…” Of course, sums aren’t his strong point! He should stick to colouring in and try not to go outside the lines!

  6. Alan Beresford March 2, 2013 at 9:19 am - Reply

    Let’s hope it happen’s.

  7. Dylans March 2, 2013 at 1:18 pm - Reply

    I hope it doesn’t happen. I want Cameron in charge until 2015 so he can lead his cabal of vicious bullington chums to a massive defeat.

    • Mike Sivier March 2, 2013 at 2:07 pm - Reply

      Having studied them for the past three years and more, I’m convinced that Cameron is the best they can put forward. Can you imagine the Tories led by Michael Gove? By Philip Hammond? By Jeremy Hunt? By Theresa May? I’m not even going to suggest Iain Duncan Smith – he had his chance. So did William Hague.

      They’re completely unviable as a party of government as it is; without Cameron they would be VISIBLY so.

  8. Adam Clifford March 4, 2013 at 2:08 am - Reply

    An imposter government full of imposter human beings laying waste with their incompetence and their inhumanity.

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