No time to leave the country
9:30am
As Middle England sinks further underwater today, David Cameron is off to Rwanda to inspect the gap year-style project overseen by Andrew Mitchell. The timing couldn’t be worse: today, for the first time in decades, there are towns in Britain without clean water. Temporary residents’ centres are opening for the displaced in Oxford.
If I were Gordon Brown, I’d visit as many of these places as I could while Cameron is abroad, and be pictured comforting Middle England as Cameron poses with Rwandans And if I were Mr Cameron, I’d avoid the cameras today for precisely these reasons. Fate has made this the worst possible time for him to go.
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Notting Hill Tory
July 23rd, 2007 9:40amIt never rains but it pours, eh!
ACT
July 23rd, 2007 10:17am'Fate' has done nothing of the sort. It was a faulty decision in the first place, made on the highly dubious basis that showing what you think it useful for other people to see you feeling is better than actually just feeling, then doing. And if I read one more obscene piece of puke from would-be Tory MPs who couldn't a week ago have told you one single thing about the whys and wherefors of the Great Lakes wars of the '90s, I think I will finally snap. Really, an exploitative charade where putridly ambitious people affect to care about genocide they didn't (and don't - watch the utter lack of follow-up from our brave, brown-nosing would-be PPCs) give one hoot about, but now hope will make them look more caring. This is so disgusting as to be truly toxic. Rain on this charade is in truth the least of what Cameron deserves. Vile, vile, vile.
hogarth zombie
July 23rd, 2007 11:47amthe more I see, the more I reckon this is the week Dave lost the election. Madness
James T Kirk
July 23rd, 2007 1:55pmThere are some posts over on the Telegraph message boards saying that Cameron was wrong to visit the floods in his own constituency yesterday because it was opportunist. What's a guy to do? And will Brown's visits to the floods today be opportunist or timely?