- Joe Priestley

Cameron the Chameleon.

One of nature’s optimists.

I was in one hell of a state the other night. Crying, throwing up, and most bizarrely of all, I was laughing at the same time and a great big belly laugh it was too. And before you ask, no, I’d not been on the scrumpy. Nor had I been smoking strange herbs or mistaking toadstools for mushrooms.

It was more mind-altering than that I’d been reading about the young pretender David Cameron and I found myself not knowing whether to laugh or cry, but I was certain of one thing - Cameron made me want to puke.

We were supposed to be impressed that he hadn’t used notes during his recent Tory conference speech ‘triumph’, the inference being that he was speaking deep felt beliefs and didn’t need reminders. He failed to impress, other than maybe in his ability to remember his lines, for he was clearly reciting a script. And it was a script that had been carefully written to say nothing; like its reader, the speech had the substance of a wet paper bag.

Cameron asked his audience, What do I believe? and answered, I am by nature an optimist. That’s politicians for you they won’t even answer their own questions. That aside one must assume his answer meant, I believe that everything will turn out well in good time.

Just what we need, another bloody optimist. British politics has been plagued by optimists and wishful thinkers since the end of WWII and look at the country today. It was optimists that said millions of third world aliens would make our lives better and Britain a better place; incredibly some are still saying it and David Cameron is one of them.

Like every other establishment politician Cameron’s primary concern is himself; his political career comes first. And whatever the minutiae that allegedly separates the Libs, Labs, and Cons, every one of them has exactly the same opinion on one particular feature of British society. David Cameron in his conference speech said it for them all, I think our diverse and multi-racial society is a huge benefit for Britain. Anything less and it’s more than his job’s worth and that’s all he’s really bothered about.

Cameron’s an optimist about the ultimate conclusion of British society (that is when it becomes sufficiently multiracial to satisfy the equality zealots) because it is a primary qualification for the job he’s after. Prime Ministers don’t question liberal ideology; they’re integral to it.

But you’d have thought that of all people senior politicians and Prime Ministers would be the first to realise how vulnerable you are to a kick up the backside when your head’s buried in the sand. Apparently not.

So Cameron is saying only what he thinks is necessary to get him elected rather than what’s necessary to turn the country round. Political correctness, ambition, and cowardice prevent him from addressing the real problem affecting our society, and there is only one problem from which all others stem, and instead he looks for an easy way out. He hopes to convince us that if we to join him in believing things will turn out well, hey presto they will turn out well.

It’s pitiful. Someone should let him in on the secret; things work out well only when done well.

Optimists can’t solve problems that optimists have created. They sort of thought the multiracial multicultural society would work out fine because they, er, sort of thought that it would. And even though their utopia is rapidly becoming a nightmare, the optimists are still optimistic that multiracialism will be marvellous.

Buzz-words

According to the Daily Telegraph, Cameron’s speech at this year’s Tory conference explained in detail his vision of how to change Britain. But it did nothing of the sort.

It was the same tripe that we always get from establishment politicians.

They go on about changing this and changing that, but they never get to the point. They’re going to change what into what, and why and how? They never let us in on the secret. Maybe there’s no secret and maybe it’s just more evidence that our alleged leaders haven’t got a clue and they’re fumbling in the dark’ hoping something will turn up.

Change and establishment politicians are mutually exclusive. What they call change is more of the same in a different guise. And when they start talking about change what they really mean is that they’re about to engage in a repackaging exercise. They’ve set us on this course and they’re determined to see it through, and there will be no change until establishment liars, cowards, and parasites have been replaced by people for whom self interest is not the prime motivating factor.

Outlining his vision Cameron told the conference, We need change for the long term, hope for our country and optimism for the next generation it’s pathetic, isn’t it? No substance, just buzz-words, change long term hope our country optimism next generation, but where was the detailed’ description of his vision for the future that the Telegraph praised? The only thing he told us with any certainty was that he supported mass immigration, I think this country has benefited immeasurably from immigration; a benefit so immense it’s beyond measurement.

Now that is some benefit!

So if immigration isn’t the problem, what is? Cameron explained, I want to tell you what’s wrong with our country and I want to explain what I am going to do to put it right. He continued, if we really want to tackle crime, if we really want to make our society stronger then you have got to make families stronger and society more responsible we must make our country safer and greener and give people more freedom and control of their lives

Cameron says that our major problems are crime and the strength (or rather lack of it) of society. And he says that if we make families stronger, society more responsible, and our country safer and greener, and if we give people more freedom and control over their lives, crime will fall and society will be stronger. families stronger responsible our country safer greener freedom yet more buzz-words strung together with little meaning and even less intelligence. The hypocrisy is so blatant it jumps out and slaps you across the face. The vast majority of the population does not see British society through the same eyes that Cameron does.

Very few indeed share his view that immigration has benefited Britain immeasurably’ and most people were they sufficiently free’ would say so. And had the same people sufficient control over their lives Britain would not have become the multiracial hell hole that Cameron loves so much.

What he really means is that he wants people to be free to say what he wants them to say, and to have control over their lives so that they can manage them in the way that he wants them to. His knee jerk response to Patrick Mercer and more lately to Nigel Hastilow talking out of line tells us all we need to know about Mr. Cameron’s attitude to people’s freedom.

A new kind of Tory

Cameron is too attached to the gravy train to ever be honest. In his 68 minute long conference speech allegedly about British society he didn’t once refer to this country’s Christian traditions or to the threat that Islam poses them. He didn’t want this most intractable issue of all to detract from the optimistic’ picture he paints of future Britain. And we mustn’t forget the Tories’ covetous eye on Labour’s Muslim vote without a large slice of which they won’t win an election this side of the dissolution of the Union.

Given the choice Cameron wouldn’t have mentioned immigration. He finds it a nasty subject, and the Tories don’t want to be seen as the nasty party, they’ve said so. But the immigration issue won’t go away and the politicians can’t ignore it. So Cameron did what they all do, he sidestepped. He interpreted the growing concern about immigration as a concern about the impact immigration has on services, education, health, housing, etc. And he ignored the much more important impact immigration is having on British society and culture and how it damages the quality of life of ethnic Britons.

Having fed the dwindling band of traditional Conservatives a couple of sops to keep them happy, he enthused about a matter much closer to his heart persuading ethnic minorities that they too can be Tories. He told the conference that they must, get out amongst Britain’s ethnic minority communities and find the brightest, the best and the most talented and get them in.

According to Cameron, one of …the brightest, the best and the most talented members of Britain’s ethnic minority communities is Dewsbury lass Sayeeda Warsi, or should I say Baroness Warsi, no less.

In fact he was so impressed by Mrs Warsi that he wanted her on board at any price. And when she failed to make it via the tradition route (she lost to Labour’s Shahid Malik in the 2005 general election in the Dewsbury Constituency) Cameron had her made a Baroness and thereby obtained for her a place in Parliament so the nation could benefit from her wisdom. She’s now minister responsible for cohesion’. We’re in safe hands. He told the conference, I am proud that I can stand here with the first Muslim woman of a Shadow Cabinet or Cabinet in Sayeeda Warsi who will be a great talent for our party and our country.

The Spectator’s James Forsyth writes, “Warsi’s rise makes Cameron’s ascent from freshman MP to leader in four years look almost sedate. In just two years she has gone from failed parliamentary candidate to being responsible for, perhaps, the most sensitive portfolio in opposition politics.

Baroness Warsi is a former immigration lawyer. She was involved with Operation Black Vote and the left wing pro-immigration Joseph Rowntree Trust. Last year she was co-author of a report that made the case for allowing refused asylum seekers to come out of the shadows and enter the official economy - and then vote for the Conservative party perhaps?

Votes is what counts

In May this year Cameron wrote in the Observer about two days he’d spent in Birmingham with a Muslim family to help him learn how to build a more cohesive Britain. He learnt that, we must be careful about the language we use. Many Muslims I’ve talked to are deeply offended by the use of the word ‘Islamic’ or ‘Islamist’ to describe the terrorist threat we face today.

Cameron explained, Indeed, by using the word ‘Islamist’ to describe the threat, we actually help do the terrorist ideologues’ work for them, confirming to many impressionable young Muslim men that to be a ‘good Muslim’, you have to support their evil campaign.

Cameron’s argument that otherwise peaceful Muslims can be persuaded to embrace terrorism by the mere association of the words Islamist’ and threat’ is either absurd or the ultimate in unintentional truths.

Careful to alienate as few potential Tories as possible, Cameron shifts the blame, Many British Asians see a society that hardly inspires them to integrate. Indeed, they see aspects of modern Britain which are a threat to the values they hold dear - values which we should all hold dear. It’s our fault, again. I should have guessed.

He goes further, Not for the first time, I found myself thinking that it is mainstream Britain which needs to integrate more with the British Asian way of life, not the other way around. And to help shift society in this direction Cameron set up the Conservative Muslim Forum, a sort of Tory equivalent of the National Black Police Association, which advises’ the Conservative Party on how best to ingratiate itself with Britain’s Muslim population.

The CMF wants the compulsory history curriculum in schools changed to give full recognition to the massive contribution (sic) that Islam has made to the development of Western civilisation”. Presumably the Tories are about to instruct us on how grateful we must be there are votes in it! And just the other week Dr Muhammad Abdul Bari head of the Muslim Council of Britain was calling for Britain to adopt Islamic customs and labelling us a Nazis for daring the question the infinite benefits of Islam. Ah, good old Tory values. Conservative common sense a la Cameron concludes that British society is in a state of collapse because it’s not sufficiently Asian. Thus Cameron doesn’t expect the minorities to do all the work.

He thinks that it should be a two way thing and that we have just as much of a responsibility to change to accommodate immigrants/minorities as they have to fit in here. He’s made this perfectly clear which is why the likes of the Conservative Muslim Forum and the Muslim Council of Britain feel confident enough in demanding that Britain change to take account of their ways and to sing the praises of their achievements.

Cameron is chasing votes. Votes are all that matter to him and his kind. He doesn’t care who’s casting them or why they’re casting them, just as long as they are casting them in his favour. And if that means at the expense of increasing the influence Islam has on this country then so be it; ambition is all and principle is a fool’s concept.

Like his opposite number in the Labour Party, Cameron will do anything to secure the premiership and to hell with the long term consequences.

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