Tuesday, August 17, 2010

David Cameron

I am beginning to wonder if David Cameron might be as lightweight as some have always claimed, careless of detail, cavalier with the facts, dangerously flip & loose lipped.

Witness his slip up over whether the Americans were fighting WWII in 1940, & his failure to recognise how others, particularly the Commonwealth, had come to our aid from the beginning. Witness the remarks he made in India about Pakistan.

Or is he just very clever at shifting the debate, deftly establishing the notion of junior partnership, disengagement from special relationship & Blair-lite adoration.

Incidentally I noticed from an article about his educational career that his A levels were History of Art, History, and Economics with Politics – no A level mathematics required to study economics (albeit with politics & philosophy) at Oxford in 1985.