David Cameron challenged over HIS past as a rioting youth...

[SpeedyGonzalez]

here Listen from 11.21 onwards.

Sounds like Cam wants us to believe that when kids from housing estates smash up shops, it's because they're from morally bankrupt families and they should to go to prison. But when he and his wealthy, well-connected Oxford Uni buddies did it back in the 80s, it was just your run-of-the-mill mistakes of youths and all they needed was a slap on the wrist (and possibly mummy and daddy to step in with their cheque books?).

I am struggling to see how he's not being hypocritical. Can someone illuminate?

How many naive members of the general public are there, all waiting for noodles to be hung over their ears by those clever spin doctors...
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'Cameron is a breath of fresh air, no spin, no bull, just sensible policies. No need for a 'Bog Conversation' with the hoodies, just action.'

'I think Cameron was probably swayed by some progressive PR spin doctors of the New Labour ilk. If only he had listened to the Daily Mail, he would nevver had made such a progressive faux pas.'

Hey, wait a minute

Goodness, math, you're up late!

Or are you in the US?

That is exactly the kind of bonkers way I would make sure to keep a promise.

Hope it turns out lovely! G'night!

'How many naive members of the general public are there, all waiting for noodles to be hung over their ears by those clever spin doctors...'

There are surprisingly many New Labour voters.
This is a problem that persists in perplexing psephologists who study PjDs on the topic of extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds. The consensus seems to be that the public were well and truly spun by politicians practised in the progressive arts.

Psephologists have concluded that there is only one constituency, clear of mind and resolute of spirit, that is completely immune to the seductive spells of the socialist spinners and to the perfidious pranks of the progressives. They have found that that constituency is the Daily Mail reader. Without that reader, they say, the country would surely go to hell in a handcart.

Speaking of bread, I would have thought that 'bread and circuses' would be the only appropriate context for discussion of the works and promises of the Daily Unmentionable.

Clegg you ARE Iannucci! Your subtly ironic use of cliche and idiom is a dead giveaway!

Math, surely you've heard the Barack Obama Irish song? How'd the bread turn out, by the way?

The bread smelled lovely and I only hope it was baked all the way through as I may have jumped the gun a bit in my impatience to get back to bed . It was wall to wall Irish soda bread in school, I am told. (And every single loaf was completely different from the others, just like the Irish themselves, O'Bama included).

I am thinking more along the lines of the ghost of Patrick Cosgrave...

Iannucci? - Certainly not. Does he read the Daily Mail? He always struck me as a progressive.

Mathanxiety has mentioned Patrick Cosgrave once before. I hadn't heard of him. I looked him up and at least he is not a progressive.

Yes. At least...

I'm sure he has read the DM as a useful resource for his progressive comedy writing, yes.

Wall to wall Irish soda bread, huh? Sounds like heaven. Must fish out my recipe...