operon said:
Cameron helped the sun decision by promising to abolish offcom and curb the bbc.
What murdochs wants.
With ofcom and the beeb out of the way Murdoch would be free to transform Sky into a right wing Fox-esque propaganda and slander machine and basically contribute to the running of the country.
Yet another reason to vote against Cameron.
blazinglord said:
Basically, some people still blame the Conservative party for the actions of Conservative MPs over a decade ago who have since either died or have retired (or intending to in the next election). To use an example, it would be like Americans still blaming the Democrat party for their support of slavery.
Camerson was advisor to Norman Lamont and Michael Howard, who accepted an amendment to the Local Government Act in the 1980s (Section 28) that stated: [Local authorities] shall not intentionally promote homosexuality or publish material with the intention of promoting homosexuality" or "promote the teaching in any maintained school of the acceptability of homosexuality as a pretended family relationship"... the same Michael Howard, who like many in the party opposed the basic minimum wage right up until Labour implemented it. There are plenty of old guard filling his benches who had a say in those governments, so yes, I still blame them -- retiring in 2010 doesn't absolve them of blame. They could have softened the blow for miners as the only industry they knew collapsed around their ears, but they're not a welfare-minded party. They could have privatised the rail network to create competing operators but kept Railtrack's infrastructure and the safety of the railways as a matter of public concern -- maybe then we wouldn't have had Paddington! They are a party of elites and elitists, populated by the kind of men who have duck ponds and moats on their estate, 15 old etonians on the front benches, a party that brought about the poll tax and post code lotteries, pushed against progressive policies like the minimum wage for years, a party that is STILL full of bigots, homophobes and euro-skeptics, a party that proposes lucky breaks for the few and implies less support and services for the many. I was only 5/6 as the early 90s recession hit and my parents nearly had to up sticks with their three kids and move because life was that uncomfortable -- how is it people have coped better now, in supposedly the deepest recession in modern history? Could it be because of the support infrastructure we have built in this country under Labour leadership?
Coming back to Cameron:
He voted against banning fox hunting, he voted against the smoking ban in restaurants and public places, he voted against NHS foundation trusts. He voted against a motion that the case had not been made for war with Iraq, and voted FOR the declaration of war. As is his snively politically convenient nature, he then voted for an inquiry into the Iraq war less than a year later. He was slow to condemn a member of his party who claimed that Enoch Powell's "River of Blood" speech was right. To his credit he isn't the bigot some in his party are, he's realistic about immigration (helping to marganlise the likes of UKIP and BNP) and he voted in favour of the civil partnerships bill. AND YET, he has aligned himself with dubious characters in Europe who have called homosexuality a "pathology", and basically - his party would have us work at the fringes of Europe instead of at the heart of Europe, working with Europe. A Europe, which against all Euro-skeptics hopes', has only marganalised us and grown stronger without us in its single currency.
WORSE than all of this though...
The man is basically running his party like the kind of PR spin-machine people these days supposedly hate... he's a tory response to Tony Blair. Changing clothes four times in the space of a few hours at the 06 Tory conference, cycling-to-work-with-a-car-following behind with his belongings, hugging-hoodies, audaciously stealing Barack Obama's mantra of "change" which the whole world knows was used to great effect less than 12 months ago... its pathetic. Gordon Brown might be a bit more popular if he knew how to pull that kind of crap, but I'm actually glad he doesn't really know how to.
He is a wolf in sheeps clothing, and if people vote the conservatives in again in 2010, it'll only be because they're voting AGAINST Brown, or because they have no idea what they're actually voting for.
