Two sided stories blog

Don't you just love it when the rich and privileged lecture the poor on how badly they have been treated by government...?

Mr Cameron - (aside: apart from having his pre-announcement of what he was going to say as another example of this annoying non-news in the morning radio headlines), went on to say yesterday how, under Labour, Britain has become "Broken" - echoing the campaign of the Daily Wail editor, who really wishes those disgusting impoverished people would just buy his rag and not keep walking on his gravel drive.

All around the country now there are the wonderful posters featuring Mr Cameron's smoothly made-up mug. I'm not so convinced it is airbrushed but everyone thinks it is, presumably because it just reeks of deceit, to me that just goes with his nature and that of his job.
The poster carries the tag line, "We can't go on like this" - prompting optimistic thoughts that he and his cabinet might be about to help each other with suicide or mercy killings.
But no, he says he wants to fix Broken Britain, support the NHS and...
reward marriage via the tax system...
and you thought Gordon Brown was dumb.

He went on to quote the recent terrible assault by two young boys in the Yorkshire area, and the Jamie Bulger murder as a typical sign of how Britain is broken under New Labour - perhaps forgetting that the Bulger murder happened on John Major's watch back in 1993, presumably Bulger's killers were a product of how Thatcher made sure there was no such thing as society (too young to remember that David?).

Perhaps he felt he was on safe ground saying this in Kent, after all these horrific crimes happened "where its grim" up north. But of course while the Gillingham fox hunting society may like it, his speech plays to the whole country, and secretary to the Treasury, Liam Byrne, was quick to pick up one difficulty with this speech content:

"What Mr Cameron appears to be trying to do is seizing on one absolutely horrific crime and almost tarring the people of Doncaster, if not the people of Britain, with the same kind of standards and I think that people will recoil from that."

The other major problem with this Cameron/Daily Wail logic is that the crime figures, released the same day, show that crime generally, has fallen by 8% over the year. Perhaps Cameron was confidently predicting (as others have) that the recession would mean that they would rise and he would be able to follow up and keep the story alive on the back of his editor pal, Paul Dacre's wail of anger...

the fact remains that the rates of these horrific crimes by young people against young people has remained fairly low and constant for over 100 years. It is pathetic to see a party leader heading toward a general election trying to make capital out of such a knee jerk reaction to a genuinely appalling crime.
Shame on you and your nicely blushed cheeks and mascara-lined eyes David.

P.S. - I am happy to report that this poster on site in Gloucester where I drive past it regularly, is not defaced by graffiti artists, just looking depressingly washed out and faded in the heavy rain we've been having - it really works well