David Cameron’s ‘Bastards’ And Gordon Brown’s ‘Fucking Budget’
DAVID Cameron has stopped speaking and those still able to have risen to their feet and applauded.
Simon Carr, writing in the Indy, senses the generosity of spirit. “Did you hear Neil Kinnock’s speech at the Indy fringe this year?” he asks.
Neil..? Yes, old light-bulb head, the former Labour leader who was undone by a wave that was not for turning. “Let’s grind the bastards’ faces into the dirt,” says Neil in reference to the Tories, natch.
Carr reasons that this is the sort of remark that lost Kinnock the 1992 election. Potential winners like David Cameron say: “These are not bad people with bad intentions. Unless we understand why they have failed, we will not succeed.”
Kinnock would most likely call Cameron a smart arse. He is. And a lot smarter than Kinnock who fell on his arse with such a clang.
And o excuse the language. Or try to. As the Mirror notes: “We don’t expect very much from our politicians, but this kind of language is perhaps more appropriate in the privileged dining clubs of Oxford University than from a senior politician seeking office.”
No, not Kinnock’s “bastards” but Cameron using the world “pissed” in his speech.
The Mirror says swearing is “not the mark of a so-called prime minister”. The Mirror sounds like a valet in a Jeeves and Wooster novel with fixed ideas as to a gentleman’s manner.
Swearing is not becoming to an ex-public school boy who would be leader. For such reasons, we read that Alistair Campbell was invited to tone down references to Tony Blair’s language, particularly not mentioning the time Blair, apparently, used the c-word to describe a senior Labour figure from the Eighties. And he’s not “fucking Welsh” like Kinnock.
Nor is he a Scot like Brown, who, as reported in Servants of the People, once shouted at the Prime Minister that he had “stolen my fucking budget”.
Language, David. Listen to the Express, which invites readers to vote on the question: “Will David Cameron make a great Prime Minister? Yes he will be great. Or No he will be terrific, amazing, fantastic and brill?
Vote now…
Pic: Poldraw
October 8th, 2007 at 9:57 am
[...] Mirror does not use the word “pissed” in full because such language, as it tells us here, is unbecoming a serious politician, which Cameron is not, much less a serious newspaper, which the [...]
October 11th, 2007 at 2:07 pm
[...] would only say more, but will not swear, it will not stoop to Cameron’s standards and get “pissed” off with him. “The Tory leader seemingly forgot he was supposed to be above Punch & [...]
October 30th, 2007 at 10:09 am
“The Mirror says swearing is “not the mark of a so-called prime minister”.
Tell that to “Bottler Brown”!