Posts Tagged ‘David Cameron’
Tories’ David Cameron Poster Is A Meme: Picture Gallery
THE new Conservative Party election posters don’t feature David Cameron. The olds ones did, though. The old ones were so utterly dreadful that web voters got to improving the look and the message. The best are here.
Posted: 16th, February 2010 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
Tories Unveil New Election Posters: Gordon Brown Weeps for Britain
ELECTION 2010: We were there to see David Cameron – is he getting shinier? – unveil the Tories new poster aimed to woo Labour voters to the Blue.
This was all one day on from the most god-awful display of mawkish sentimentality displayed by a politician since one MP stuck on an Our Maddie ribbon and said, “I’m ready for my close up.”
Gordon told us that he lost an eye playing rugby – who knew? Gordon – and it is always Gordon – is so stoic he’s only mentioned it 3,254 times.
He also told us about the loss of a child and the camera panned to Sarah Brown – who in between dates with jobbing celebs looked into the hearts of viewers in a way that spake unto us: “This is Gordon. This is my Gordon. You think he’s a power-mad **** who sent your children into a stupid war, raided your pensions, led us into bust and presided over a corrupt political elite. But he lost his eye playing rugby. And he’ knows all the words to Ben 10.”
Forget the posters, Cameron – just play Gordon Brown talking to Piers Morgan on interactive hoardings and a web telly loop…
Posted: 15th, February 2010 | In: Reviews | Comments (4)
David Cameron Does Cockermouth, In Pictures
TAKE a look at Conservative party leader David Cameron sharing a joke with Eileen and Jim Lawson of Lawsons Haulage Ltd, after their home and business were hit by the recent floods in Cockermouth, Cumbria. While Gordon Brown is in Copenhagen working out how to turn Tony Blair’s weather machine off, Cameron pays a visit to Dumfries and Galloway Emergency Response Centre to discuss the effects on the area of the recent severe weather. One the one had you’ve got slapstick Gordon Brown playing it for laughs; on the other, there’s shiny David Cameron, the straight man. They could work well together. As ever, everything Cameron does demands a caption…
Posted: 17th, December 2009 | In: Politicians | Comment
David Cameron, Geri Halliwell And Michael Jackson Honoured At The Sun Military Awards: In Pictures
IT was ‘A Night of Heroes‘ at The Sun Military Awards. And here they filed through the doors of the Imperial War Museum: Michael Jackson (WTF 1st Class), Geri Halliwell (GIRL POWER – Honourable discharge), David Jason (PUKKA), David Cameron (Funny Walks Corps – see them all), Jennie McAlpine (Corrie St. Fizz), Ross Kemp (Manic Stare Regiment, First Delusional), Prince Harry (Tally-ban!), Prince William (Tally-banana!), Jenny Faulkner (GMTV), Bruce Forsyth (Victoria Cross) and News International Chief Executive Rebekah Brooks (Ninja). Oh, a few soldiers. In pictures.
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Posted: 16th, December 2009 | In: Reviews | Comments (3)
David Cameron In Afghanistan Is Grabba Ma Selling Houses, In Pictures
MORE on David Cameron’s visit to Afghanistan. Like Prince Charles, every picture of David Cameron screams out for a speech bubble. Cameron is a man ideally suited to captions. Who can but look at this picture of Dave in a jumper and jeans combo his grandpa bequeathed him and not imagine what the squaddies behind are thinking? More photos are emerging of Dave wandering aimlessly in Afghanistan in an estate agent’s suit, a Grabber Ma given the shiny-cheeked appearance of being alive. Enjoy all these photos and do offer up your captions – picture number 6 is fabulous.
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PHOTO MUST NOT BE PUBLISHED BEFORE EMBARGOED TIME DUE TO SECURITY REASONS EMBARGOED TO 1800 FRIDAY DECEMBER 4 Conservative Party leader David Cameron meets British soldiers at the Task Force Helmand HQ in Lashkar Gah where he met military chiefs and visited a wheatseed distribution Centre helping local farmers out of poppy production.
Posted: 5th, December 2009 | In: Politicians | Comment (1)
David Cameron Nicks Your Kids: Daily Mirror Wins Award For Most Desperate Headline Of The Decade
AND the Most Desperate Headline of the Decade Award goes to the Daily Mirror for this scare story about David Cameron’s Conservatives kidnapping children:
“TORY CHILD SNATCHERS.”
David Cameron is going to steal your children and turn them into young Tories, Climate Kops or rich kids who go to Eton and then on to successful highly paid careers. The utter bastard!
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Posted: 2nd, December 2009 | In: Politicians | Comment
Rupert Everett Explains Why You Should Vote For David Cameron And His Tory Toffs
ANYONE still wondering whether or not to vote for high-pitched David Cameron and his ‘There’s no-other-option’ Tories can knows that if he gets in then Rupert Everett, the acting toff, is going to leave the country.
Rupert “Lives in London, New York, Paris & Miami.”
And if you want to know where the action is, follow Rupert:
What’s more, he has a special knack of always being where the action is: in Moscow with the tanks and Yeltsin during the 1991 coup, strolling through downtown Manhattan on 11 September, nightclubbing in Miami with Gianni Versace before he was shot, sleeping with Béatrice Dalle when she was the most desirable woman in France, having an affair with Paula Yates when she was one half of the most famous couple in Britain. Not forgetting his most publicly defining role: gay best friend to Madonna.
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Posted: 30th, November 2009 | In: Politicians | Comment (1)
David Cameron Wants British Thanksgiving Parade, In Pictures
TOP TORY David Cameron today calls for the UK to celebrate Thanksgiving:
Says David Cameron:
“Keeping up with the plot of Friends and other top US TV shows is hard enough for our kids. But when the cast of Dora The Explorer or Ugly Betty celebrate Thanksgiving, Memorial Day or even Independence Day, our British kids just feel confused, isolated and are 85% more likely to turn to crime.”
In light of this, Anorak brings you the annual New York thanksgiving parade. One day Britons will able to look up and cheer huge inflatable Great British carton characters, like the Fat Slags, Alf Tupper, and Dave’s personal favourite Lord Snooty.
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Posted: 27th, November 2009 | In: Reviews | Comments (5)
David Cameron Exploits Dead Soldiers Day For Gordon Brown’s Daily Mirror
THAT sick, disrespectful (check spelling) Tory toff tosspot David Cameron has outraged Daily Mirror readers by “exploiting Armistice Day for ‘photo shoot’”.
He took his personal snapper into the Garden of Remembrance at Westminster Abbey yesterday to pose for carefully-choreographed photographs.
In the paper, there’s old soldier Frankyln Hood to say that Cameron used “sacred ground like cheap film set”.
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Posted: 13th, November 2009 | In: Politicians | Comment
Boris Johnson Exposes Jeremy Paxman’s BBC Agenda
THE Tory Party conference is much like the Labour Party Conference, only with better suits and broadcast by a BBC unable to hide its bias.
Before we see Jeremy Paxman’s hideous interview with London mayor Boris Johnson, in which Paxman looked like a sneery head boy sucking up to a more popular pupil while seeking to exert a superiority that was patently lacking, Tory Bear brings us this:
Sunny Hundal, head honcho of Liberal Conspiracy, says:
“There needs to be an increasing drive towards investigative blogging, finding news and digging up dirt on the opposition. Just writing opinion is no longer enough. Left-wing blogging has to focus on two things: collating and publishing news, and doing distributed investigative journalism. More on this another time.
Not only will it get dirty and partisan – I’d say that is exactly where we need to be.”
Dirty and partisan eh?
Last time Tory Bear heard anyone recommend that as a game plan it was our dear Derek, and that didn’t go too well.
Now for that interview, in which wealthy civil servant Paxman tries to pour scorn on David Cameron because he is, er, wealthy and therefore might actually understand how money works and its value:
Image: The excellent Matt Buck
Posted: 6th, October 2009 | In: Politicians | Comments (3)
David Cameron Tells Taliban Decapitation Is Lawful And Right
DAVID Cameron show’s he learnt something from the War on Terror by anouncing a “decapitation strategy” for Labour ministers.
This sounds like a desperate attempt by the Tories to show that the political elite are soemthing more than a cosy bunch of self-serving troughers. Forget the policies, Cameron is calling for a violent overthrow. It’s language we can relate to.
The Telegraph reports:
Five Cabinet Ministers have been targeted in a “decapitation” strategy by David Cameron to try to wipe out some of Labour’s biggest names at the next general election.
Violence always spices up politics. And hats and heads off to Cameron for injecting some vim into the political scene.
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Posted: 19th, August 2009 | In: Politicians | Comment
David Cameron Says Nine Tory MPs Are Twats
DAVID Cameron called Twitter users Twats on Absolute Radio and it was reported here by Sky News. So nine of his party’s MPs are twats. Fact.
That’s going to win him a load of votes, then.
Is twat offensive?
Probably…
Cameron then went on to tell Christian O’Connell:
“The public are pissed off.. Oh, I can’t say that, can I?”
Cameron is down with the kidzzzzzz. and down on nine of his MPs, who are on Twitter.
Those Tory Twats are:
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Posted: 29th, July 2009 | In: Politicians | Comments (4)
Boris Johnson, Sarah Palin And Barack Obama Star In Pro-Cannabis Campaign
BORIS Johnson, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, George Bush, Al Gore, Bill Clinton, David Cameron and Hazel ‘It had no effect on me” Blears star in drugs campaign.
TO prove that taking illegal drugs need be no barrier to a successful carrer in politics, charity Release has launched a deck of playing cards to illustrate it Nice People Take Drugs campaign.
The campaign features such exhibits as Boris Johnson, Sarah Palin, George Bush, Al Gore, Bill Clinton, David Cameron and Hazel Blears.
Says Sebastian Saville, chief executive of Release:
“We developed the deck of cards specifically to show the hypocrisy of politicians who talk about their sterling efforts in the fight against drugs when so many of them have taken drugs themselves,” Saville said. “The UK public are now well aware that politicians appear to live by their own special rules in many areas – we felt it was time to add drug use to the list.
“Many people, including these politicians, have used drugs and have come to no harm but this is mainly because they were not caught doing it…”
“Their careers did not suffer, yet they continue to support a regime that results in thousands of often less privileged people being condemned to marginalisation, incarceration and permanent disadvantage due to personal drug use.”
Had any of these people been arrested for possession of illegal drugs would they have risen to the top?
How To Be A Gangster, By Jacqui Smith And New Labour
Enjoy the gallery:
Posted: 27th, June 2009 | In: Politicians | Comment (1)
David Cameron Holidays In Germany
IN “Cameron German accent is blasted”, the Sun’s Philip Case says:
CONSERVATIVE leader David Cameron caused a stir last night when he put on a German accent to mock ID cards.
Zo? Vot ov zis “gaffe”?
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Posted: 16th, June 2009 | In: Politicians | Comments (3)
Ivan Cameron: A Good Day To Bury Jade Goody And Every Parent’s Worst Nightmare
IVAN Cameron has died. And the media searches for a story beyond the bald fact. And thanks to Gordon Brown’s suspension of PMQs, it has one.
Daily Telegraph: “One child’s death, however sad, should not close the Commons –
Charles Moore finds himself uneasy about the official response to the death of Ivan Cameron”
And to we have the story… Pass the yellow ribbons.
At Gordon Brown’s request, the House adjourned out of respect for Mr Cameron, suspending Prime Minister’s Questions. No one in Westminster wanted to question this out loud, but, in private, many were unhappy about it. I think they were right to be.
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Posted: 28th, February 2009 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comment
Ivan Cameron: I Spy Disabled People, MPs Yellow Ribbons And The Public Spectacle
IVAN Cameron has died. David Cameron’s son has died. A moment of personal grief. But can it made into a public spectacle? No Prime Minister’s Questions Time yesterday.
The House of Commons looks inwards, dealing with it own issues in mawkish fashion before the work of running the country and announcing the dead in Afghanistan and Iraq.
After the MPs have performed “Ivan Cameron and Me”, the hacks get to work making sense a child’s death:
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Posted: 27th, February 2009 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comments (37)
David Cameron Throws Snowballs Like A Girl
DAVID Cameron throws a snowball. Like a girl…
Posted: 3rd, February 2009 | In: Photojournalism, Politicians | Comments (4)
Kenneth Clarke Is Cameron’s Golden Legacy Of Brown Past
KENNETH Clarke is back on the Tory front line. He is now an ally of David Cameron. Of course, they have always been bezzy mates, as Richard North notes:
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Posted: 19th, January 2009 | In: Politicians | Comment
David Cameron Wants Us To Swallow His Fibre
DAVID Cameron announces his dream to see Britain become a “fibre to the door” nation within a decade:
“We need to move much faster towards a Britain where fibre right into people’s homes is the norm for everyone and a Conservative Government will do everything it can to make it happen within a decade.”
Moving faster is what fibre is all about. Are you doing your five a day?
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Posted: 5th, January 2009 | In: Politicians | Comment
No Future: Brown & Cameron Do Sex Pistols
GORDON Brown and David Cameron do the sex pistols:
Posted: 8th, December 2008 | In: Politicians | Comment (1)
Obama Disses Dave Cameron
MARBURY reads the New Statesman claim that “following his brief meeting with David Cameron in July, Obama exclaimed, ‘What a lightweight!'”
I’m sceptical. It just doesn’t sound very Obama-ish. Whatever he thinks, he doesn’t make a habit of deriding individuals in this manner, even fierce opponents (in fact I can’t think of a single example right now). The story’s author refers vaguely to “diplomatic sources”. Even if Obama was going to insult the Tory leader, it would be very out of character for him to do so in front of officials that weren’t people he knew and trusted. And as we know, Obama’s aides aren’t leakers. Well, we’ll see. But this may not enhance the already less-than-stellar reputation.
They disappear leakers, don’t they…
Posted: 5th, December 2008 | In: Politicians | Comments (2)
Ps And Qs: David Cameron Joins The Baby P Debate
BABY P. No rest yet. The court case has yet to be played out. The mother, step-father and lodger have yet to be sentenced.
Children’s Secretary Ed Balls has seen a report into the case. He has made his views know. But as is the fashion in modern politics, no-one makes a decision and moves on, they only join the debate.
His lack of a firm hand and inability to deliver a final ruling allows papers like the Sun to emote and start campaigns. They join the debate. We all join the debate. And nothing gets done. Not really.
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Posted: 2nd, December 2008 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comments (19)
John Sergeant’s Brief Encounter With Mandelson’s Travolta Politics
JOHN Sergeant has fallen on his Strictly Come Dancing stiletto. It’s all so very serious. And we’ve seen it all before.
The middle-class cinema-going public may have lapped up “Brief Encounter”, but shortly before its official premiere in November 1945 its director, David Lean, had tried it out on a distinctly working-class audience in Rochester, where he was filimg “Great Exprectations”.The cinema, as Lean soon discovered, was full of sailors from the nearby Chatham dockyards. “At the first love scene one woman down in the front started to laugh. I’ll never forget it. At the second love scene it got worse. And then the audience caught on and waited for her to laugh and they all joined in and it ended in an absolute shambles. They were rolling in the aisles.”
David Kynaston, “Austerity Britain, 1945-51”.
Meanwhile, in what passes for the real world:
“He has become the people’s Jon Travolta” – Peter Mandelson
“I’m just devastated. Strictly will not be the same” – David Cameron
Mandelson says he wants to be on the show and then Sergeant retires. A link? A threat?
Spotter: Clive Davis
Posted: 20th, November 2008 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Brown And Cameron Woo The Gay Vote
THE ConservativeHome image surmises British politics – Cameron or Brown?
File under – it’s in pink and mauve!
The battle ground is over the gay vote…
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Posted: 18th, November 2008 | In: Politicians | Comment
Baby P: Socialist Liberal Conservatives To Blame And Sterilising The Guilty
BABY P Watch: Anorak’s at-a-glance look at Baby P in the news…
THE SUN (front page): “SOCIAL WORKERS NEW SHAME”
When a tortured and murdered baby isn’t shaming enough…
“BABY P GRAN: I WARNED HARINGEY”
Says she: “They didn’t want to know.”
The last photo of blond, blue-eyed Baby P — taken days before he was found dead in his blood-spattered cot
Blonde…
On page 5, the Sun produces a petition. It’s already been written: “All blonde children with blue-eyes should be saved first and…” Or:
“I believe that ALL the social workers involved in the case of baby P, including Sharon Shoesmith, Maria Ward, Sylvia Henry and Gillie Christou should be sacked and never allowed to work with vulnerable children again”.
Meanwhile, Baby P’s mother is free to have more children, and so too his step-dad and lodger Jason Owen. Discuss…
“…I also demand that the doctor involved with Baby P, Sabah Al Zayyat, should lose her job and not be allowed to treat the public again.”
Says the grandmother: “I blame myself.” Can she be banned from being a grandma?
But one local has produced her own petition. Stephanie Biber has plastered a poster to the windows of the Hornsey and Wood Green Labour Party headquarters. The legend runs:
“Sharon Shoesmith you have blood on your hands. Council tax payers of Haringey refuse to pay council tax until Sharon Shoesmith is sacked.”
Says Ed Balls, the swivel-eyed Education Secretary:
“People are asking how these despicable acts of evil can happen in this day and age and in Haringey of all places.”
Yeah, the bucolic splendour of one of the most impoverished, dirty, depressing places in the entire country. If there, then anywhere…
TREVOR KAVANAGH: “Leftie Mafia close ranks over Baby P”
P is for Politics…
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Posted: 17th, November 2008 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (10)
