David Cameron has given a speech in Essex today in which he intended to quieten the fears of those concerned about immigration, but seems rather to have unwittingly expressed his own contempt for us all. It’s bad enough that he is sharing a platform with Ken Clarke, that pretty much gives away the stance he wants to adopt. But a careful reading of his text shows that, just like Ken Clarke, he really doesn’t think much of any of us if we opposes the vision of the future he has planned out for us.
Who was he describing when he said that those who argue Britain should open its borders and give up national sovereignty were “patronising“. I’d want to make a guess that he was speaking about himself. He is, after all, more committed to membership of the increasingly federal EU than even the leaders of the Labour and Liberal Democrats. He can’t resist telling us once again that being part of the EU is a jolly good thing. So I guess that if those who persist in promoting this view are “patronising” then he is describing himself, Ken Clarke and those around them. Certainly they seem to be running out of patience with the electorate, which is unreconstructed in its residual nationalism, and so they have taken on the same task which Labour instituted of replacing the electorate with a more amenable one, and corrupting those of us who remain with bread and circuses.
Cameron is on top of the arguments which he has himself employed. He describes these arguments for us, “Open your borders. National sovereignty is obsolete. Multilateral relationships are the only ones that matter, bilateral ones are so 20th century“.
Yep! That still sounds as though the one being described is David Cameron, Prime Minister. And the list of arguments sound pretty much like any random Ken Clarke speech picked out from the last 3 decades. This is where he referenced the idea that such views were patronising..
And we’re familiar, too, with their frankly patronising approach to those who may disagree.
Of course you are familiar with this approach Mr. Cameron, it is one which you employ as a matter of course. Can anyone remember how he described until very recently indeed those who disagreed with him and were supporters of UKIP? “Fruit-cases, loonies and closet racists”. I’d say that was frankly patronising indeed, and we should be grateful that Cameron is at least aware that he, and those who are on the left of his party are being patronising.
What do people like Cameron say about us? Cameron knows. It’s the sort of language that always comes easy to him..
You’re a Little Englander’ they say. ‘You don’t get the modern world.
It can’t have taken long to write this speech. It was probably dictated at the last Cabinet meeting when Cameron asked around the table what his ministers thought of the electorate! He rather gives the game away when he says..
This approach – largely pursued under the last Government – didn’t feel too good for ordinary people and frankly it didn’t do too much for our competitiveness either.
We can see that the approach was largely pursued under the last Government, but clearly not only or entirely pursued under Labour. It is still a policy which is being used today by the Conservative Party. And why is it a necessary policy? Not because of any likely benefit to the British people, but because membership of the EU, mass immigration and the loss of national sovereignty all allow senior members of the political class such as Cameron and Clarke to.. shape the world and have a seat at the top table.
What is remarkable about this speech is tha Cameron is entirely honest about what he thinks of the electorate. He really thinks that we don’t get it. But we are not as stupid as he imagines. We know when we are being patronised and as time runs out for Cameron and the Conservative Party he needs to be really honest with himself and with us all, or he will be swept away by the tide of popular dissent. It may well be that honesty is beyond him.
He’s just another senior politician who thinks (I use the term loosely) we should all be like him. Barring Major, we’ve had a succession of them since 1979.
First let me lay my cards on the table, I am not now, nor have I ever been a fan of David Cameron, he is in my mind not a conservative in the sense of Powell, Thatcher, Redwood MP, David Davis MP, no he is more a wishy-washy wet conservative, more in the mould of that odious loathsome Edward Heath.
Whether he would have shown a different side had he won the last general election outright we will never know but does he truly deserve the bashing that Peter has just given him? I think not. Decide for yourself by reading his EU speech in full.
Try as I might; I have not as yet been able to find the full text of this speech on the internet.
Hi David. Yes I think he definitely deserves it and more. I don’t think he is a conservative at all and holds the electorate in contempt. Words are cheap. Look what he has done and wants to do.
David Ossitt I am shocked and horrified at your post.
What on earth is the Conservative Party going to have to do in order for you to realise what a bunch of nasty charlatans they mostly are?
One does not need to read a Cameron speech. One knows instinctively that it will be carefully constructed crap.
You just don’t go there any more. He’s a dead man walking, a failure, just clinging on to whatever dismal power remains in his fey grasp.
By their deeds thy shall know them.
Cameron is a gift that just keeps on giving…..
– for UKIP!
camoron and his chums should be put on trial for treason. camoron, blair and brown are the worst pm’s we’ve ever had.
Dean Street June 11th, 2013 – 00:11
David Ossitt I am shocked and horrified at your post.
One does not need to read a Cameron speech. One knows instinctively that it will be carefully constructed crap.
Hello Dean Street, I am amazed that you are horrified at my bland post however I am sincerely worried that you can condemn a speech without having read the content.
Surely our greatest enemy the socialists in all of their many yet similar nasty forms Marxism, Trotskyism etcetera, are the ones who judge without the evidence, who instinctively (as you say) form judgments without reading the evidence.
David, we have had 4 years of evidence.
Peter from Maidstone June 11th, 2013 – 16:40
“David, we have had 4 years of evidence.”
Yes I agree, if by that you mean evidence that he is not to our minds a true conservative, as I said in an earlier post “he is more a wishy-washy wet conservative, more in the mould of that odious loathsome Edward Heath.”
But that should not take away from my point that one can’t judge a dish without tasting it nor should Dean Street or anyone else condemn a speech without reading it, you of course can, because you have read it.
That is why I referred to socialists who will condemn anything willy-nilly if it comes from the right.
David Ossitt June 11th, 2013 – 18:57 ‘The Heir to Blair’
You, liking him to Heath is faint praise, especially if you come across internet gossip!
Cameron, liking himself to Blair, says it all !!!
Every week is full of attacks on our laws and culture from the EU, whether it it the FTT or Shorting in the City or the whole control of the City. There is the CAP, the control of our borders, our welfare benefits, prisoner voting, inability to make our own deals with other countries, refillable olive oil jugs, the non-removal of inhospitable aliens, the lack of democracy within the EU, our green taxes, re-cycling as well as a high membership fee. And there is plenty more!
And still Cameron thinks we should stay in and get outvoted!
I agree, there are times when he looks if he has been groomed to be in authority, but he does look like a figurehead on the front of an 18th century war ship and has the same ability to take decisions, such as on what course to take.
RobertC – 10:26 ‘Heir to Blair and the EU’
Even Conservative Home has noticed:
“Imagine if the DWP, Foreign Office, Home Office, Department of Justice, DEFRA, the Treasury and the Attorney General all announced that they were launching outright challenges to European policies and institutions. It would be a major change of attitude towards Brussels and Strasbourg, a more bullish approach by British politicians finally standing up to domineering eurocrats.
It may surprise you to learn that you don’t need to imagine it: that is exactly what has happened over the last two weeks. Had all of the announcements happened on the same day, perhaps the headlines would be bigger – as they were spread out, mixed in with other news, the trend has not so far been spotted.”
http://conservativehome.blogs.com/thetorydiary/2013/06/seven-ministries-have-gone-to-war-with-the-eu-in-the-last-fortnight.html
But how many will be lost, fudged or given a little more time until the protesters fade?
Or a new, more enlightened minister is appointed?