tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17766817.post1002602374047502338..comments2023-11-05T22:35:31.766+00:00Comments on Neil Clark: Wally of the Week: Dave CameronNeil Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10479041156190090119noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17766817.post-34943650001549759772008-08-21T08:37:00.000+01:002008-08-21T08:37:00.000+01:00neil: sadly what you say is true. robin: I don't k...neil: sadly what you say is true. <BR/>robin: I don't know what happened to your previous comment- I only received this one. I couldn't agree more with what you say. I think I was the first journalist to highlight Cameron's neocon links in October 2005 in the Guardian; in all the carefully choreographed euphoria about 'that speech' at the Tory conference that month, no one had really bothered to see who was really behind Cameron. The neocons were desperate to 'Stop Clarke'- they all started writing their oped pieces saying why Clarke would be a disaster etc- and they decided that the only candidate who could possibly defeat 'The Beast' would be Dave. It was essential that in order to defeat Clarke, 'Dave' was presented as a 'moderate', but if you read the small print there is nothing moderate about him at all, certainly not his foreign policy!Neil Clarkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10479041156190090119noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17766817.post-45287282011404777802008-08-20T20:37:00.000+01:002008-08-20T20:37:00.000+01:00The point that Cameron is essentially a neocon can...The point that Cameron is essentially a neocon cannot be made often enough (I wrote a long reply about this last night but it doesn't seem to have got through). There seems to be a delusion on both sides that he represents a return to pro-European, pro-Arab Toryism of old, based purely upon his background (which means nothing these days, especially because the class he came from abandoned most of its original values so as to stay on side with Thatcherism). In truth, as you pointed out before he even became leader, he represents quite the opposite.<BR/><BR/>The one good thing is that I think his becoming PM would herald the end of the United Kingdom, and the new states of Scotland (and quite possibly Wales) would take a much more European social democratic stance.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17766817.post-41897753955252617712008-08-20T11:18:00.000+01:002008-08-20T11:18:00.000+01:00When he first became Tory leader he went to look a...When he first became Tory leader he went to look at a glacier in Norway thereby proving he was "on message" with the media about all the glaciers melting. Now he visits Georgia proving that he is in message that the Ossetia genocide vigtims are unpersons. In our media one photo-op is better than a thousand facts.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com