Britain has been in mourning this week after the break up of what many were calling the ‘romance of the decade’ - the love affair between Tory leader David Cameron and the MSM.

In final proof of the dictum that history repeats first as tragedy and then as farce, Cameron appears to have modelled himself on John McCain. Just like McCain, David Cameron’s reputation was based on his endorsing every stupid myth the liberal media has ever spread about conservatives and conservatism.

Say what you like about the senator from Arizona, but at least he has a genuinely heroic war record. Cameron meanwhile is an almost beyond parody example of the incestuous nature of the political elite. It speaks for itself that that the only job Cameron’s ever held outside politics was a short stint as a PR flack for a media company. Add in the education at elite institutions and his penchant for surrounding himself with similarly privileged cronies and it may just be that Cameron can go days without ever meeting anyone with a real job.

Needless to say, the silver spoon aristocrat Cameron is much more to the liberal media’s liking than Lady Thatcher, the grocer’s daughter, who’s supporters even included people suspected of working with their hands. Indeed, with his blow-dried image, absurd photo ops and ability to spout the most ludicrous charges against the right, Cameron always seemed like he was auditioning for a job in the MSM - right up until this week.

The liberal media is currently all a flutter after Cameron launched a virulent attack on the government’s immigration policy. Those of a sensitive disposition might want to look away now, but what he said was this:

It is important to understand that if your child is going into a reception class and suddenly 20 new kids turn up because lots more families have arrived then that is a big pressure.

This is the type of statement which is classified technically as ‘blindingly obvious’. Yes, indeed, doubling the size of a class can affect the education of the kids already there, but since when has the MSM ever let itself by hobbled by logic and facts, when there’s girly hysteria to be indulged in ?

Suddenly, all Cameron’s new friends have deserted him. The MSM is proverbial for its good dog/bad dog rhetoric with rightists, but the switch is rarely so blatant. Indeed, the BBC - supposedly legally obliged to remain impartial, remember - has been caught shopping round for someone, anyone, to come on air and support their claim that the Tories are pandering to the hard right (much like every welfare boondoggle is greeted by the MSM with charges of pandering to the hard Left… no, wait, that’s a different universe).

It’s tempting to sympathise with the Tories, except not really. Cameron justified his idiotic pandering to the liberal media with a load of pretentious blather about needing to ‘detoxify the brand’ - an oddly pretentious way of saying that his whole strategy was to convince people that the Conservative Party no longer had any actual conservatives in it. Just as long as Cameron and his cronies were prepared to denounce the mainstream of the right, they were lauded as heroic tellers of unpleasant truths, but as soon as they disconnected the kool aid IV, all bets were off. In other words, David Cameron - the Smartest Man In Britain - is just the latest fool to realise that you can cut a deal with the Left, but they won’t respect you in the morning.

Said DJ @ 9:46 am | Permalink   

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