Europe needs to get real on defence; Britain needs to get real on Europe
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19 September 2009
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Actually Alistair McGowan’s inability to send up David Cameron is very bad news? It indicates that he senses his audience regards the next prime minister as untouchable at this stage of the political cycle. Did McGowan send up TB between 1994 and 1997 or until TB had acquired a bit of tarnish? Comedians go for easy targets, not hard ones.
The fact that Cameron ranks with Obama in this respect makes it doubly worse. Alas, we have Gordon Brown, his acolytes and the Labour Party to thank for conferring Blair-like gravitas on the Tory leader.
Yawn, another lame swipe at Cameron, all becoming a bit predictable. Very amusing I’m sure, but not much of a strategy for winning the next election is it ?
I can sympathise though as it must be nigh on impossible to find anything else.
What exactly did Blair stand for? Prosecuting an illegal war in order to suck up to President Bush? And what does Brown stand for? destroying our economy and racking up a debt which will prevent future economic growth and which the country will still be paying off long after you are dead?
I wish you had followed up by asking A McGowan how many members of the shadow cabinet he can impersonate. He does a good Hague, but how many others? When I think back to all the impersonations that were being done of the shadow cabinet pre ’97, there were many of Prescott, Robin Cook, David Blunkett, Gordon Brown, Frank Dobson etc etc. That’s because Labour had personalities who had something to say, not like the Tory front bench of today.
We also had Spitting Image back then and it’s a shame we don’t now. The satire of Cameron on the recent animation series Headcases was very sharp, but not enough of it.
This is the kind of weak attack on Cameron we have all come to expect from professional liars like Campbell and his appalling clique.
It really is pathetic.
“An upper-class whisper. It could stick.”
Thanks Campbell, for once again lowering political discourse in this country.
“Ollie” you could only be young tory with a twattish name like that – “David, David….I’ve posted a rude comment on AC’s blog….can I do some more photocopying?”