So David Cameron is to step down as an MP. Time to reflect on his baleful legacy in public life.
I genuinely can’t think of a more poisonous, dishonest and self-serving figure in public life than David Cameron.
Cameron is the man who gave us the Bedroom Tax – an instrument to punish the poor. The man who helped to destroy Libya and to create a refugee crisis.
Cameron was a misanthrope to anyone outside of his cosy country set. As he heaped the misery and political dishonesty of Austerity on to some of the poorest and most vulnerable people in British society – he rushed to the aid of upper middle class flood victims in Somerset with these never to be forgotten words:
“My message to the country today is this. Money is no object in this relief effort, whatever money is needed for it will be spent. We will take whatever steps are necessary”. He insisted “we are a wealthy country and we have taken good care of our public finances”.
Compassion for David Cameron was only extended to people that mattered – real people with an Aga in the kitchen and money in the bank. “We are all in it together” lasted until the door swung shut on his first day in Number 10.
Cameron stoked the fires of the UK housing market so that mortgages and rents have become a crippling drain on countless families – most will never rest comfortably in a home they own and a parasitical class of landlords has been allowed to engorge themselves using bully boy tactics and substandard housing.
He wasted a golden opportunity to reform the excesses of the private banks in the wake of the 2007/8 crash and instead shifted the blame to the poor and the vulnerable.
Thanks to Cameron the UK is more divided and unequal than ever – with a million people needing food banks and record levels of homelessness. Thanks to his ongoing vilification of anyone needing to rely on the welfare safety net – he has brought levels of poverty to the UK not seen since Victorian times.
After emotionally promising to defend the NHS, he has instead lead an all-out assault against it. The NHS has been broken up, marketised and privatised by stealth – it now stands on the brink of collapse with vulture capitalists circling hungrily.
His politics were ruthless and shameless. David Cameron was the epitome of mendacity in public life – a bullying warrior in a class war he fought using low sly cunning. At the dispatch box he was every inch the public school bully boy – hectoring, jeering and dismissive.
He will always be remembered for two things – cronyism is the first, disgracing his office with jobs for the boys and gongs for allies – his parting shot was to shower honours on tory party donors and his friends – only Cameron would give an OBE to his wife’s hairdresser.
The second of course is Brexit. He played party politics with Britain’s future and we all lost. The referendum we didn’t need has left the UK the despair of Europe and the laughing stock of the world.
Post Brexit, Scotland will surely leave the union and Cameron will add the breakup of the UK itself to his list of achievements.
Its no surprise to anyone at The Haze that he has stepped down as an MP. He doesn’t want the mundane work of an MP now – that was just a stepping stone to personal enrichment, he has had all he is going to get from public life so now he is off, without a care for what he leaves behind.
Cameron governed on behalf of the rich and the privileged – he leaves behind a society more divided and unequal than when he arrived. His gunboat misadventures into foreign policy have destabilised North Africa and left the UK friendless in Europe.
‘Good riddance to bad rubbish’ ranks as a generous tribute to how we feel about him. As the UK itself stands on the brink of disintegration, it will sting bitterly to listen to the glowing tributes that will doubtless be aired on the BBC to his services to the wealthy. Cameron was Britain’s worst ever prime minister – let us hope Theresa May doesn’t find some way to eclipse him – the early signs do not look good.
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Great article, and very well put.
While it is maybe true that Cameron is the worst PM in history (so far) and will not be missed by anyone, I don’t believe he can take all the plaudits to himself. Let’s not forget his trusty sidekick Gideon George Osborne. Osborne had to be the most political, opportunistic and self serving chancellor ever. These two imbeciles used their offices of state to promote the Tory party, enrich and empower their friends (and themselves)all to the detriment of the rest of Britain. Literally playing politics with peoples lives, creating division, inequality and war; it should have lead to charges in the High Court for treason not to sycophantic tributes or fawning sentiments. These two cretins just didn’t know when to stop, gambling everything for petty party advantage they finally took over the edge. Good riddance to bad rubbish indeed.