sweet effay

Tuned into to Prime Minister’s Question Time today to see how the new Tory darling coped with his big debut: Chewed up and spat out. One amusing snide comment (the prime minister used to be the future); one offer to vote with Blair to shore him up against his backbenchers (good strategy this – make Blair’s own party hate him); one hopeless attempt to dig at Tone over climate change. The only time Blair got rattled was when Alex Salmond asked him to ignore the minutiae, and define the differences between his political philosophy and Cameron’s. Predictably, an angry Blair got caught up in the minutiae and ended by saying that he differed from Salmond in believing that Scotland should remain in the UK. Hardly an effective jibe against the leader of the SNP.

Despite his poor debut, Cameron scares me. People say he has no policies, but I suspect that he has loads and the wishy washy ‘I love Society’ blather is simply a way of sounding vacuous and appealing whilst sneaking in an agenda somewhere to the right of Attila the Hun. Witness the one substantive he came out with at PMQ’s: All schools should be allowed to set their own admissions policies. It doesn’t take a genius to see where that’s going to go.

Of course, New Labour scare me as well and things probably won’t get better when Blair finally pisses off to stand trial in the Hague for war crimes (I can dream, can’t I). It will be crap if Gordon ‘pass me the baby oil; I’ve got some figures to massage’ Brown gets the leadership, but probably even worse if he doesn’t. Either way, I’m praying that people see David Cameron for what he really is and that he doesn’t manage to revive the fortunes of the Conservative Party.