Sunday, October 15, 2006

A WORLD WITHOUT DAVE

The hostile reception to Sion Simon's Web Cameron YouTube spoof was indicative of the mystifying bubble of sycophancy currently surrounding everyone's favourite hoodie-hugging reformed gakhead. I've always been suspicious of cuddly One Nation Tories (at least pantomime villains like Norman Tebbit were self-styled draconian monsters) but David Cameron's touchy-feely brand of everyman populism is particularly risible. Hilariously, Dave cites his favourite album as The Queen is Dead by the Smiths, but admits to finding its author's militant vegetarianism and anti-royalist sentiments 'troubling'. Presumably he regards the lyrics to Margaret on a Guillotine ("When will you die?") as a riotous laugh too.

If, as seems depressingly inevitable, Cameron becomes PM, expect him to eventually be despised for the very same qualities he's currently championed for a la Blair. And expect the illiberal, socially regressive Tory Party, with its vehemently anti-youth, anti-hedonism and anti-arts agenda, to quickly reawaken from its slumber...

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Ouch!....sounds like I should be glad I'm not residing in Blighty! But we have George W instead ..... wan'a do a swop?

Anonymous said...

depressing, no?

http://www.epolitix.com/EN/News/200612/3ea031d9-dc6f-4255-b830-d3fc8721b216.htm