News and Politics | May 05, 2010 | 3 comments

Welcome To Cameron Land - The UK Under Cameron

source: http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-welcome-to-cameron...

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"This is a dispatch from David Cameron's Britain, the country that could be waiting for us at the other end of the polling booths and the soundbites and the spin. I didn't have to take a time machine to get there; I just had to take the District Line. In 2006, a group of rebranded "compassionate Conservatives" beat Labour for control of Hammersmith and Fulham Council, a long stretch of west London. George Osborne says the work they have done since then will be a "model" for a new Conservative government, while Cameron has singled them out as a council he is especially "proud" of. So squeezed between the brownish dapple of the Thames and the smoggy chug of the Westway, you can find the Ghost of Cameron Future. What is it whispering to us?"

An interesting article what perhaps shows that what the Conservatives truly want hasn't changed in the past 13 years.

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-welcom...
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3 comments // Welcome To Cameron Land - The UK Under Cameron

  • CarolineS
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      CarolineS  

    • It will be a shitty land if cameron, brown or clegg gets in! when will people wake up and see that they are all the same it's a front, they argue for the media, then drink their tax free alcohol behind the doors of the houses of parliament, democracy means nothing anymore! nick cleggs father was a tory! what does that tell you? and please dont be naive and say oh just because his dad was a tory doesnt mean he has to be! look at the bigger picture

    • 3 years ago
  • OrbViper
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      OrbViper  
    • CarolineS:

      While I'm not going to launch into a defence of Nick Clegg, I will put forward the point that political attitudes are not something we genetically inherit, and to put forward the point that is basically is can be a dangerous attitude. Like you said, I'm not naive enough to not notice we are strongly influenced by our parents politics, but many people do break away from what their parents say, especially the more politically minded what Nick Clegg most certainly is.

      To say that there is no difference between what party you vote for today is just untrue. While there might not be a vast gulf of differences between them all, there are certainly differences, and even those small differences can make a huge difference in the end (I think if I have to use the word difference it may crawl out of my mind...)

      I'd recommend reading this other article by Johann Hari: http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-welcom...
      It gives some real differences of how the world would have been different if Labour had not won in 1997.

    • 3 years ago
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