Everyone and their dog seems to be slagging off David Cameron at the moment. To illustrate my point, you’ve got to read this article.

He is like a hollow Easter egg with no bag of sweets inside. Cameron will say absolutely anything if he thinks it might get him elected. If a shock poll was published saying 99% of the British public were enthusiastic paedophiles, he would drive through the streets in an open-top bus surrounded by the Mini Pops. He’s nothing. He’s no one. – Charlie Brooker

It’s ad hominem through and through, but it’s strangely refreshing; to so candidly call someone a prick in a national paper. Love it.

There are a couple more hilarious purile attacks on Cameron, here’s the “Airbrushed for change,” campaign.

Last, but not least we have the David Cameron fridge magnet. Simply click refresh and Cameron will spit out inane anecdotes on how the world is coming to an end.

I’m a little confused with the whole Middle East problem.

There’s practically a holy consensus right now that the war in the North is a just war and that morality is on our side. The bitter truth must be said: this holy consensus is based on short-range selective memory, an introverted worldview, and double standards.

Morality is not on our side

This war is not a just war. Israel is using excessive force without distinguishing between civilian population and enemy, whose sole purpose is extortion. That is not to say that morality and justice are on Hezbollah’s side. Most certainly not. But the fact that Hezbollah “started it” when it kidnapped soldiers from across an international border does not even begin to tilt the scales of justice toward our side.

If you’re a little confused about the unfolding events. Who has beef with who. Click here.

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Nick Parrott and Kevin Davis who both attended a hustings at our school (Tiffin Schoo) with Edward Davey have a blog. I’ve emailed Edward Davey as to why he doesn’t when both his opponents do but i’m sure he’s “so safe he don’t care” (Edit=Reply below).

I’m sad to say neither cared enough for our fickle “student” votes enough to blog about them. Nick Parrott an Ex Tiffinian should be ashamed of himself, at least he managed to quote something from the hustings.

To be honest the hustings was a no contest. A main figure in the Lib Dem party up against Nick Parrott a fledgling of the Labour party who he himself claimed that he “doubt[s] Tony Blair knows who [he is]“.

I was quite bemused by the Conservative candidates blase attitude to the whole affair. Either he thought we were not old enough to vote or that a top grammer school full of pupils mostly planning to study Law, Medicine, Economics and Politics would ever vote Conservative. Maybe it was because our school is predominantly brown.

With Lib Dem having such a majority I felt there was some tag teaming. Lib Dem were all to happy to jump into bed with Labour at the expense of some votes as long as they wern’t swinging towards Conservative.

The reasoning is, with only Conservative with a cat in hells chance of gaining a majority, as long as the votes are going towards Labour the bacon is still coming home.

Nick Parrott

Edward Davey

Kevin Davis

For a response from Edward Davies click

Dear Steven Vu,

Thank you for your email about blogs.

We thought long and hard about this, as I originally thought it would be an excellent idea.

However, increasingly the experience is that they are abused, and a number of candidates, including my Tory opponent here, have removed theirs – in his case, I would note, not because of abuse from LDs, but due to “abuse”/embarrassing (for him) comments from former Tory councillors about the fiasco at the Tory Club.

Thus, we reluctantly decided not to proceed with our plans.

Thank you for your interest though.

Regards,
Edward Davey

I’ve just written a quick post up on the London MetBlog. Will hopefully blog there more often. Thanks to Richard for the quick low down on what has caught his eye this week. Hopefully it’ll be the start of a regular occurance as I don’t seem to blog often enough.

MayDay ’05