The Thatcher Thing

It dawned on me this morning, whilst listening to our Prime Minister dribbling on that I have come to dislike David Cameron more than I disliked Margaret Thatcher.

This sudden shock has little to do with the merits of Thatcher's Britain but more to do with them as people. The thing with Thatcher was that at least you go the impression that she'd worked her way through to being PM with ideas that she had developed through time and experience. Her solutions might have been wrong but she did - at least - work hard to get where she was and that for her being PM was a chance to do something 'good' and meant something to her. She also seemed to work hard.

It's a faint praise but it'll have to do for now.

But Cameron...was he ever going to stop to think about what he believes?

From Eton to Oxford to PR to SpAD to MP to PM. All without ever having to break sweat too much. The impression with Cameron is that being PM was something he is doing for a bet or as a gap year job before going off to do something better paid. There's no sense that he's doing the job for any other reason than that.

All the guff about changing the Tory Party was just enough bullshit to look real. Say what you like about Blair (another ex-PM with whom I have certain issues) at least the fights he had within his party were real rather than cosmetic.

Has Cameron ever really had a Clause Four moment? (And no gay marriage doesn't count. That's a basic issue of civility and civil rights imo)

And what does he actually do? PMQs has exposed his lack of understanding of his own governement policies over & over again. It also exposes his irritation whenever his divine right to rule is questioned. He seems to be the most hands off Prime Minister in my life time at a time when Britain could do with some genuine direction he seems more interested in chillaxing (whatever the fuck that means).

The same could be said of the Invisible Chancellor who rises from his bunker on rare occassions to smirk & sneer.

So David Cameron congratulations by combining Toryness with laziness and an air of smug entitlement you have managed to make Thatcher look slightly less awful. It's not much of an accolade I agree but I think your worth it.