to laugh at david cameron?

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He has only been in government about 1 year, the economy has flatlined and already there are riots and looting in the streets! He doesnt listen, and just gets everything so wrong!

It would be absolutely hilarious, if only the consequences weren't so tragic.

But I need a good laugh, so AIBU?

can't stand DC at all

OP - lets not forget that parilment has been recalled twice since they broke up for summer

also wonder how many hoodies he wants to hug now

YANBU but I can't laugh at him because he makes my stomach churn with his smarmy smirk. The worst thing about him and his Tory cronies is how utterly devoid of ideas they are. They are like a cheap, plastic version of Tony Blair - just hunting media approval, chasing the polls and acting like sales reps instead of showing leadership and vision.

I never understood why Gordon Brown was so unpopular. Yes, he was dour, serious and a bit self-important but surely a real politician should be serious and boring? Not a smarmy Old Etonian who sees a political career as nothing more than a gold star to add to his posh kid CV.

It makes me laugh when people expect this government to get this country on it feet after only 15 months in power, yet will still blame the Tories for the selling off of council properties when labour had 13 YEARS to build more.

You cant have it both ways no matter how much you hate the Tories

Yes, because anyone that went to Eton and comes from a privileged family is not worthy of running our country. That truly is inverted snobbism at its best.

What ideas?? Cool fricking Britannia??? Spending our way further into debt during the recession?? Bailing out the banks with OUR money and failing to regulate them at the moment of rescue?? ASBOS?? Yeah. Genius.

So they have had 15 months in power but they have not achieved any of there objectives in that time, and I think we will suffer no growth in their term of government despite all these cuts and raising VAT.

I predict a complete shambles

'their'

It is his worst nightmare, he can't say anything without looking like a hypocrite given that he and his rich friends had a club whose whole purpose was smashing things up for fun - every speech he gives goes round the internet in an edited version to point this out. People can also pair up his quotes about poorer areas with his actions, like shutting down the youth clubs, so he is only learning now that you can't blag your way out of every situation. I wish he didn't have to learn it at our expense though.

Runner, I agree, how can he condemn the riots when he admitted to 'smashing up a restaurant, then Boris set fire to the toilets'.

Then threatening people with the strongest punishments when they have stripped services and the opportunities for young people to have a decent future.

Oh well I apologise if he didn't say it.

When David Cameron and Boris Johnson were in the Bullingdon Club at Oxford, they attended regular dinners at which the restaurants were then trashed (looted is another word) and then wads of cash thrown at the waiting staff to clear up and shut up.

JUST the sort of people we need to stamp out mindless vandalism

Sorry Sam,
you must be sore at your holiday being cut short.
We do not know what DC did or did not do.
He and his lawyers have stopped all discussion and blocked publication of the picture
which must show that he has nothing to hide. my mistake

I can't laugh at Cameron and his cabinet. The country has gone to the dogs. Last week, the Tories quietly abolished the Agricultural wages board, which regulated the pay of 140,000 low paid farm workers in this country. They will no longer be entiltled to sick pay or extra days off. Also, aparently Osbourne is hinting at cutting the top rate of tax for earners getting £150,000 pa. It sickens me, it really does.
We are in trouble. We need economic growth, we need social repair, well, we need more than we have ever needed and we have exactly the wrong person in charge to give the country what it needs.
I agree with punishing rioters, but he also needs to address the social problems that have brought this about en masse.

Having said all this, I don't wish Cameron to go, to have another general election would be an economic disaster of huge financial scale. I am glad the police are speaking up and giving him some shit back for the inexpert cristicsms he has leveled at them. He and his ilk deserve a good metaphorical bloody nose.

BTW, don't get me started on Louise Mensch. I saw her on C4 news playing down what Murdoch and his clan did. Truly disgusting.

I know think that the vast majority of DC haters are incensed because the government has eventually seen the light and started cutting the ridiculously generous welfare state and hugely swollen public sector that labour created.

That said, I think DC and his cronies are a set of total bell-ends. Not as much of a set of bell-ends as Miliband and his morons, however.

That's not true in my case ShellyBoobs - I think any government would have made cuts. What some of us dislike is the brand of tory politics which bullies people into work who cannot work and targets disabled people. Which they do because, basically they don't give a damn about the most vulnerable in society. And because they do stuff like taxing resident parents to use the CSA when the non resident parent doesn't want to pay child support. They don't even try to hide their contempt for single parents.

The Tories are using the current financial problem to excuse their party policy of poor-hating and lone parent blaming! They would have tried to take these measures anyway, the poor financial state of the country has played right into their hands. Am warming to Boris though , he's becoming quite a thorn in Camerons side

'poor hating and lone parent blaming' - yes exactly.

YABU. The mere fact that he has only been in power one year totally undermines your point, as the riots were caused by deep-seated ongoing social problems which can not be linked to any one factor, and the economy was messed up under Labour. One year on, he is still trying to sort out the problems created by the last government. And "he gets everything so wrong" is very very much a matter of opinion.

He just gets everything wrong ,and is creating more and more unrest ,just like the last Tory goverment really

I bet he wears man Spanx.

...aparently Osbourne is hinting at cutting the top rate of tax for earners getting £150,000 pa. It sickens me, it really does.

I don't know why someone getting a tax break would sicken you considering that to hit the 50% rate, you would already have paid £53,000 in tax that year.

The 50% rate was a temporary measure brought in by that bungling cretin Brown. Sort of like the temporary VAT reduction that did nothing to stimulate the economy but cleverly added another £12bn to the deficit.

And this is our Government....

radicalglasgowblog.blogspot.com/2011/08/and-boris-set-fire-to-toilets.html

I didn't vote for him but I was initially quite excited in the early days of the Coalition. I thought we were ushering in a new era of British politics, where consensus politics would be the order of the day rather than the posturing adversarial nonsense we are used to.

I gave him the benefit of the doubt. I don't have a problem with his privileged background (though I do think it is a bad idea to have a Cabinet made up quite so heavily of the über privileged). Before the election he made some really pro-women statements about cracking down on domestic violence.

I feel let down by him. As the situation has deteriorated and his back is against the wall, he and the Conservatives have rapidly shoe-horned themselves into stereotypical nasty tory mode. Completely unoriginal, completely uninspiring, completely disappointing.

sunshine I have always seen him as being the nasty side of Conservative, his youth, looks were a smoke screen for hardline tory policies that even Thatcher was unable to implement, though she would have liked to!