Captain Opportunity Strikes Again
June 7th, 2006 at 18:17
David Cameron is fast becoming one of my favourite politicans. Why? Because I appreciate his well thought out policies and the values his party stands for? Of course not! He’s a smug twunt, but I like how I don’t even have to make an effort to spot his thinly (ie: un) veiled opportunism.
It was only back in February when I was moaning about his statement of principles, but he has since topped this with the ultimate “policy”: it’s nice when everyone’s happy, like. Notice how he doesn’t suggest any ways of actually doing this- I believe he said he wouldn’t fiddle with tax or give companies incentives to make their people happy. He’d just hope and said it’d be really really nice if they made things better for employees.
He’s done much more since this (blagging his way into David Beckham’s party as a guest of the Sun editor, for one), but two things he’s done today have struck me as particularly obvious cries for help. He’s put an England flag on his famous bike- and he’s attacked Radio 1 for “encouraging knifecrime” by playing hip-hop.
What delights me about this is a letter that was published in the BBC’s ‘Magazine Monitor‘ section, looking at the lyrics of some of the “favourite bands” Dave has mentioned whilst being an opportunistic publicity whore at other times during the last six months:
- “The knife wants to slit me/Do you think you can help me?” (The Smiths – I know it’s over)
- “Look into my eyes/I’m not coming back/So knives out” (Radiohad – Knives Out)
- “I got bombs, I got guns, I got brains” (Radiohead – Phillipa Checken)
I also like how the leader of the Conservative Party’s favourite bands are the same as my dad’s. That must mean that he’s old, uncool and out of touch.
So essentially, what I’m trying to say with all of this is: POLITICIAN IN ‘HYPOCRITE’ SHOCKER!
See inside pages for “Surprise as night follows day”, and “Pigeon seen in sky as life goes on, shock”.
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