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"Call me Dave" and the cocaine question.
The litmus test whether "Call me Dave" Cameron is to be the next acceptable face of the Blairite continuation of the Thatcher counter-revolution, is whether the establishment leaves him alone on the cocaine question. The Tories seem happy to accept his past, unlike the case of poor talented Portillo whose admission of homosexuality, an entirely legal activity, did for his chances of becoming Tory Leader and PM. Now cocaine is strictly illegal, even in the past. Cameron was smart enough to assure Paxperson he hadn't taken anything "since becoming an MP", and Paxperson himself is too much a pillar of the establishment to seize upon the tacit admission that he "did stuff" before becoming an MP - perhaps when he was helping Norman Lamont sort out the ERM.
Now cocaine on the sink estates is one thing and some recreational sniffing among yuppies is quite another, as we all understand.
However, Labour is only tame as long as Tony is there and despite Brown's assurance today on the radio that he will continue the Blairite revolution, the establishment still has nightmares about the unions and a comeback for Old Labour, whose oft announced death, like Mark Twaine's, is constistently premature. So given the choice of Brown and the Unions or Cameron, the establishment could just argue that a change of face is good for the semblance of democracy. But how to keep the Screws of the World and Sun on board to elect a class A drug user.
Watch this space !
The litmus test whether "Call me Dave" Cameron is to be the next acceptable face of the Blairite continuation of the Thatcher counter-revolution, is whether the establishment leaves him alone on the cocaine question. The Tories seem happy to accept his past, unlike the case of poor talented Portillo whose admission of homosexuality, an entirely legal activity, did for his chances of becoming Tory Leader and PM. Now cocaine is strictly illegal, even in the past. Cameron was smart enough to assure Paxperson he hadn't taken anything "since becoming an MP", and Paxperson himself is too much a pillar of the establishment to seize upon the tacit admission that he "did stuff" before becoming an MP - perhaps when he was helping Norman Lamont sort out the ERM.
Now cocaine on the sink estates is one thing and some recreational sniffing among yuppies is quite another, as we all understand.
However, Labour is only tame as long as Tony is there and despite Brown's assurance today on the radio that he will continue the Blairite revolution, the establishment still has nightmares about the unions and a comeback for Old Labour, whose oft announced death, like Mark Twaine's, is constistently premature. So given the choice of Brown and the Unions or Cameron, the establishment could just argue that a change of face is good for the semblance of democracy. But how to keep the Screws of the World and Sun on board to elect a class A drug user.
Watch this space !
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