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Verity

Samatha Cameron is no Christy Brinkley. And David Cameron is no Billy Joel. Billy Joel was giant talent and stayed at the top for years. Not a good reference, David.

David Blackburn

Verity,

It was a little tongue-in-cheek.

Andrew Cadman

So your against the Tories marriage policy on the grounds of social engineering? I would presume, however, you were against the 50% tax rate on the grounds that lower taxes stimulate enterprise? Any tax policy designed to change behaviour is social engineering, its just a question of whether it is just and rational or not.

In any case, it is far more correct to say that as marriage is proven to be the best way of bringing up children there is, the lack of recognition for marriage in the tax system is itself a form of social engineering, as it means those who are and stay married have to subsidise the costs of family breakdown and its associated problems. The current situation therefore remove consequence from peoples actions and choices. That is highly illiberal.

Liz Brown

and the point of this article is???

Richard

Just what the flagging campaign needs....another tory toff on telly gushing over call me dave.
This is the same Sam that said she would never be seen on TV embarassing herself like Sarah Brown..uh!
I wonder if she will use her faux Estuary accent or the real cut glass ladyship one!
We might even get a glimps of the plastic wristband too.

Nicholas

Actually I like the cut of their collective jib. And infinitely preferable to Gordon the Miserable Scotsman from Kirkcaldy via Creepsville getting on with the job with his hand on your wallet while he tries to hypnotise you with his moral compass and Tales from the Crypt and the flint-eyed wife who looks as though you can look at her only in the reflection of a shield.

Walsingham's Ghost

Great! - just what the Tories need - another potential 'Sally Bercow' story...

Verity

Nicholas - V good!

Fitalass

You have outdone yourself with this vicious little hatchet job!

Zoo keeper (Elephant House)

"... the trouser-wearing uber-bitch?"

I thought that accolade was well and truly at home with Mandy in Regent's Park.

Talking of which... if the Conservatives really want to win the next election, all they have to do is seriously pursue the matter of how a "public servant" who not long ago had to fraudulently apply for a mortgage, can now afford to live amongst the "uber rich" in Regents Park.
After all, he's only a civil servant, and mummy was hardly a Rothschild.

The Tories can't fight... and the Press won't.
One has to ask "why"?

@Short the UK !!!
Keep it up Shorty !!!

John Richardson

Andrew Cadman.

Yes to everything you write. However, you are totally wasting your time with these folk.
They are 'progressives'.

Have you ever know a 'progressive' to think, reflect or change their 'mind' ?
Me neither.

Do you think the above points that you patiently and concisely detail, will make any difference whatsoever ?
I don't.

Instead, should you persist with thinking, you will soon find yourself called 'nasty' or 'racist' or 'bigoted'.
I betcha.

Reg.

JGS

"Sam Cam is the trouser-wearing uber-bitch"

What a disagreeable piece of writing. Your editor needs to do some editing.

toco

Samantha Cameron has a great contribution to make about decency compared to Sarah Brown who frequents with the likes of Charlie Whelan(political director of Unite 60% owners of the Labour Party)),the disgraced Damian McBride and Derek Draper/Mandelson.No contest.

John Smith

Blackburn - you are a nonentity,a fucking useless journalist with as much talent as a pile of freshly laid excrement.

mitch

who cares what she is like she isn't an MP and wont be PM.

TomTom

The main purpose of the Conservative Party and the upcoming General Election is to give Lord & Lady Docker a chance to profile themselves in Hello Magazine and for Samantha Cameron to show she is every bit as unlovely as Victoria Beckham.

This is the essence of the Conservative Party in its final days, like every British institution going down as tawdry and hollowed out as only the British can manage in their dishevelled and pathetic state of decadence.

One Politics had principles now it has merely Celebrities

Sadie

Did she turn you down for an interview?

Such venom says a lot more about the author of this article than its subject.

Robert Gregory

The tackiness ! The witlessness ! The sheer tat of it all !

No policies, no ideas and no hope (for us at least) but Lady Muck plays Lily Allen for Sir Trev. I dispair !!

mitcheltj

Does anyone hate this ghastly sentimentality and humbug as much as I do? It used to be that patriotism was the last refuge of the scoundrel. Wheeling your family onto the political stage seems set to replace it. Is there anything these people would not do to try to gain a vote?

Verity

There was a post on a blog in The Telegraph today from a former worker in Mrs Cameron's shop, and she said the staff were told never to approach her and not to speak to her. She compared Mrs Cameron with Anna Wintour, the ex-editor of Vogue, in this respect.

Edward

"Sam Cam is the trouser-wearing uber-bitch."

Why the ugly language? There's no need for it - you come across as silly and juvenile.

hector

Quite right JGS, although disagreeable is not the word I would use. As I see the outpouring of ill considered tat on this web site I have no inclination to reverse my decision to cancel my subscription and wonder what Boris thinks about the Speccie now.

Baroness Booth of Bury

Note to anyone and nobody in particular who've chucked their wife/partner on tv for interview(s). Not voting for the wife/partner and now definitely not voting for you.

That's all.

toni

@toco. Have a care that someone doesn't turn your comment around and substitute the names.
Hint: Steve Hilton, Andy Coulson and their particular well published and expensive baggage....

toco

toni
We are talking low life like Whelan,McBride and Draper.Mr and Mrs Brown are wedded to these low lifes so just adjust to the facts of life.Trust me you will feel better for admitting your sins.

THX1138

I have met Sam Cameron and she's lovely..

Edward Sutherland

What a ridiculous, and unpleasant, piece of writing, Mr Blackburn. I have absolutely no time for Labour and long to see them heavily defeated, but I wouldn't dream of refering to Mrs Brown as a "trouser-wearing uber-bitch" or whatever grubby equivalent you might wish to dredge up. Very bad taste, Mr Blackburn.

JohnAnt

"saying he’s never let her down in 14 years of marriage". What she actually said was that she *didn't think* he'd ever let her down in 14 years of marriage.
Which is wifespeak for 'Give me a mo and I bet I can remember something.'
Actually, the Camerons are a very good example of the way the state has intervened over time through 'equality' legislation and high property/rental values, to effectively force both partners to go out and work full-time and bring their children up with au pairs and nannies. This is already part-subsidized by the singles who carry the office can for the absentee child-producers and child-collectors. The Tories don't really want a return to traditional married family life, they just want to reward and cross-subsidize still further. Doesn't seem at all fair.
And I don't think favouring the married through the tax system will impress the benefit class who don't pay much tax to start with - they are the ones who need persuading, not the middle classes.

Tim Maycock

Verity - "There was a post on a blog in The Telegraph today from a former worker in Mrs Cameron's shop"?

Didn't you miss out the word 'allegedly' from that sentence? Lots of imposters and cowards pose and hide on the interweb in these desperate times.

Rainer Unsinn

Mr Blackburn, have you actually met Sam Cameron or are you peddling second hand gossip?

strapworld

Why cannot Mrs Cameron take a leaf out of Mrs Major's book or dear old Mr Thatcher?

Being silent and getting on with her life. Appearing next to her husband now and again, when duty requires it! Surely she would have far more respect than the antics of Mrs Brown? Who would be at the Cenotaph ceremony laying a wreath if she could!!

We are electing politicians. Sadly we, more and more are becoming like the awful americans with a presidential style election. (These debates will be placed on DVD's and given to GP's to hand out to insomniacs!). The elections become down to personalities!! What do we get three people with no personalities whatsoever!!

Now I would like a directly elected Prime Minister, and to follow the American governance system, which gives their elected representatives far greater power to examine the workings of the executive.

But, as we do not and we, the people, have no control on whom a party puts up as their 'leader' I think such debates are quite ridiculous. They demean the local constituency with its local problems and local candidates. People believe,now, that they are voting NOT for that local man or woman of their chosen political party but just Griffin. Farage.Salmon. Kilroy Silk, Cameron. Brown or Clegg.

The problem is, of course, that in a conspiracy to keep this Country tied to the EU, controlled by Common Purpose on behalf of the EU, and with no opposition to that direction. They have stiched up these debates so that we can only hear one view on the EU. One view on Afghanistan etc. When three are marching in the same direction , even economically as events after the election will prove, which ever party wins, and facing the same way. How can anyone call this democracy?

Dorothy Wilson

"If Sarah Brown is the damsel in distress, saved by her heroic husband....."

Actually, I think you might have that the wrong way round. Sarah is presenting Brown as the flawed hero in distress and herself as the damsel who comes along to rescue him.

Victor Southern

Mr. Blackburn - you have published here a tawdry and unpleasant article composed of snide allegations and witless epithets.

I will admit my ignorance, I had never heard of Anna Wintour. I looked her up and read that she is a woman who has succeeded in a man's world and so is cause for concern.

I find it hard to believe that staff in Samanatha Cameron's business are not allowed to talk to her but then I do not believe much of the Labour spin that you and your colleagues absorb and regurgitate so readily.

Jane

Yawn...

Tom Burroughes

A fairly pointless piece of writing, Mr Blackburn.

radgie gadgie

I just wish I had the option of deploying my Mrs while in pursuit of a job....

Verity

Victor Southern - Anna Wintour is one of the thousands of women who have succeeded as editors over the decades and I cannot help but wonder what possessed you to think that someone was jealous of her because she had succeeded in what is largely a woman's world - the world of women's magazines.

You surely suspected there was a point to the criticism? Or did you think Anna Wintour had been picked at random out of the hundreds of women worldwide currently editing mags?

The point, you see, about Anna Wintour, ex-editor of Vogue is, she did not allow her staff to speak to her unless she spoke to them first. People weren't even supposed to wish her "Good morning".

See, that is the connection! That this ex-employee cited Anna Wintour tells me that this story is probably true and had probably been much discussed.

Jeeeeez.

I stress that I am repeating what someone wrote in the Comments section of one of the Telegraph's political blogs.

Ex-Tory voter

If you call restoring the tax break for married couples (which El Gordo removed) "social engineering", what do you call skewing the benefits system so you're better off apart? Given that all the studies show that children perform better and suffer less in stable relationships and that married people are more likely to stay together than unmarried partners, I would say this restoration of the balance in favour of long-term partnerships is long overdue. In fact, support for marriage (along with the Hunting Act repeal) is one of the few policies that Dave has promulgated that I wholeheartedly agree with. Shame about his stance vis-à-vis the EU. If he'd only addressed the problems the European Superstate poses for GB&NI, he wouldn't have lost my vote.