No Longer Nasty

However liberal a Conservative one may be, of course, and however deeply one may have bonded with the likes of Andrew Rawnsley, as a pragmatic politician one must make practical choices. That, no doubt, accounts for the Eton-educated David Cameron's choice of Sun executive editor Chris Roycroft-Davis as a speech-writer.

"I believe David Cameron has many vital messages to communicate to voters," Roycroft-Davis said. David Cameron "has a bold vision for a modern Conservative party". Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, the evidence from David Cameron's own mouth is quoted in Rawnsley's article and noted in my previous post. If there is anything bold, visionary or modern in the entire farrago, Peter Jackson is the new Stanley Kubrick.

Still more amusing is the idea that Cameron's bold, visionary, modern ideas - the ideas of a first-class honours graduate in Philosophy, Politics and Economics - must be refracted into the public gaze through the prismatic prose of a gossip columnist for the poor man's Daily Mail. Of course one cannot have enough people called Davis or David in one's shadow cabinet; and somebody has to translate all those Rawnsley-high ideals into appropriate monosyllables for the Murdoch-mesmerised proles; but surely there are more effective ways for Cameron to help big business towards a more socially useful role?