Statesbloke or Salesbloke?

The Free Tibet campaign group, which appears to have spent the last three years in Shangri-La, has recommended that Britain's Head Boy behave "like a statesman, not a salesman" when he confronts the Heathen Chinee. Daveybloke, it may be remembered, showed his statesmanlike credentials in the 2010 election debate by bracketing China with Iran as an eminently nukable threat to Britain's safety. A bit later he did some posturing with the Dalai Lama which, it now turns out, was a gesture of principle on much the same lines as the husky-hugging exploits of his Cuddly Conservative phase. That phase, as we know, has now been formally consigned to the dustbin of expediency and the oblivion of the web; and Daveybloke is much more interested in selling off chunks of our energy industry to Beijing than in pretending to be concerned over human rights. As it turns out, Daveybloke will be visiting himself upon the Heathen Chinee at the same time as the American vice-president; so we must hope for the sake of world peace that all non-members of the Bullingdon Club remember who won the war.