Cameron: "Let Them Eat Cake"

Fraser Nelson's take on the Cameron press conference is well worth a read. Speaking for ourselves, we are heartened to learn that Davy actually took the time to order piping hot Earl Grey and freshly baked all-butter thins for the ravenous hacks. Afterall, the way to a man's heart is through his stomach.

This fact is something that, given the discussions that followed at the conference, Cameron would have done well to bear in mind sooner.

According to Bob Roberts in the Mirror, Cameron had held a shin-dig to mark the closure of a day care facility his son used, and which he had previously campaigned to save. Whilst the Sir Hugo Roaralots and Jocasta Boffington-Smythes were invited to stay on for dinner and champers, the two "unsung heroes" - ambulance drivers Davy had hailed in the media previously - were shuftied off out of the trade entrance after half a Babycham and some Tesco Value butties. Fraser:

You could see Cameron thinking that every word he said in response may give the story extra legs. He said he didn't recognise the Mirror story. Roberts came back again: he invited the posh for dinner, but the rest booted out after drinks. Why? Cameron replied that he'd said all he was going to. This “snob” line is political kryptonite to him.

Honestly people! I mean he deigned to speak to the lower orders didn't he? What more do you want? Blood?

Another sign that after ten years of Labour the country has indeed gone to the dogs.

Written by Lloyd Shepherd on 3 Dec 2007 4:27 PM. Permalink