Cameron stamps on the SpAds

tom jones

Only about a year too late! Better late than never. Cameron was brilliant in opposition (apart from a couple of errors), but his initial PM-ship seems to have lost some steam in recent months and it feels like he isn't the same person he was in 2010. In 2010 the government and PM had loads of bold policies and they knew exactly what they were doing/where they were going, but now after many u-turns and infighting, everything's gone limp. Hope this is the start of a new chapter...

We love you Dave (in your dreams, mate")

Yawn.

toco

It is good to remind colleagues that the leftist BBC together with its step siblings the Independent and The Guardian are ever on the prowl to spin against the Government.The BBC's newsreaders and would be presenters have become used to believing in their own publicity given the top 20 average in excess of £1 million per annum-one can become a real champagne socialist on that money.

Sally Chatterjee

Cameron promised to reduce the number of these advisors but he has failed, quickly going native once in government. I'm rather disappointed in this.

Zoltan the magnificent

A briefed process story about how there is going to be an end to briefed process stories. And so the government (and its parasitic parrots') slow perfection of the art of cranio-proctal pseudoeroticism successfully concludes. Well done all.

TGF UKIP

When is Heath2 going to make an honest man of you James and formally put you on the Downing Street payroll?

Verity

Cameron stamps his foot in a Bullingdon Boy tantrum.

Big deal.

Russell

Even the silly 'hamster' looking woman on Sky news every night and her pal Jon Craig cannot hide their joy whenever an anti coalition BBC/Guardian story breaks.
Bring on Fox news asap to get a bit of balance into broadcasting, the BBC has over 40% of news output.
If it's good enough for Murdoch, it should be the same for the BBC.

Sean

This is a great process story.

D'oh!

In2minds

"Cameron stamps on the SpAds" - Who told you this?

david

Strange! I seem to remember when Labour was in power leakers were treated as heroes, whats changed?

Chris

It's also good to remind people that commenters that use terms like "leftist BBC" are generally tin-foil hat wearing right wingers and consideration should be given to the fact that most of what they say is said whilst wearing blue tinted spectacles.

Woody

It's about time he banged a few heads together, there are too many silly own goals and are constantly on the back foot.

Every time I switch on the news, I see a Labour MP, they are not going to get any help from the MSM and should have been aware of this from the beginning. It's time David Cameron let some of the alpha males on the back benches lose to get after Labour.

Scary Biscuits

Was news of this meeting briefed to you by a SpAd or by No.10?

Red Rag

Nice to see Calm me Dave showing his authority and the SPADS listening not a jot. The meeting to stamp out leaks to the press......was err....leaked to the press.

Widmerpool

Good on yer Dave!

It's a pity your party and the Lib Dems have to rely so much on these [all too often] "near teenagers"
It's good you have brought the Golden Oldies, Hesser and Young back to advise you on Industry and Regional Policy they had probably both made their first million well before some of the SPADS were born!

Boudicca

It's no good Cameron trying to pretend that the Coalition is united, and silence the critics.

This is a pantomime horse of a government, bolted together but trying to go in opposite directions. The head pulls one way; and the rear end digs its hoofs in and refuses to budge. Then the rear end tries to steer the front, pushing the whole thing off track.

The CONservatives aren't united under Cameron. He is leading a wet, pro-EU faction and the rest of the party is sidelined.

If it lasts until 2015 it will be a miracle.

Heartless P.

Flashman stamps!

oooooohhhherrr

what a little twerp - like the spads and he deserve each other.

Verity

Chris 7:41 - If you don't understand that the BBC is not just leftist, but hard left, heel-grinding fascist ... then you are not as worldly as you think you are.

TrevorsDen

How do you 'brief' an official meeting? Still it lets the flat earthers have a rant.

Cynic

"Cameron’s other main message was the importance of pressing the flesh. He stressed that backbenchers and the party needed to be kept happy." And the electorate? Remember them? The people with votes, where do they figure in all of this? Oh, silly me, I forgot. We aren't due an election for another few years and by then such distractions might well have been abolished.

lescam

"Cameron’s other main message was the importance of pressing the flesh. He stressed that backbenchers and the party needed to be kept happy."

Yes, keep them happy, like forcing a three-line whip on them as recently done, entirely unnecessarily.

What an fool Cameron is. To misquote, "A fool and his MPs are soon parted". Soon, hopefully.

Occasional Ostrich

Zoltan the magnificent 15th, 6:46pm

"cranio-proctal pseudoeroticism"

Nice one, squire. Is it original?

Frank P

"Cameron stamps on his spuds?"

Sounds like a touch of testicular elephantitis? Strange that! The general perception hereabouts is that his scrotum is empty.

fergus pickering

Cameron's a little twerp. Lady T is a fascist loony who has lost her marbles. Churchill was a drunk. So much for them.

48Crash

If this is true (and not a SPAD-u-like dream of being important)then Dave, as he likes me to call him, needs to have a word with the Treasury about their relationship with every other department: if there's a nest of own-message spaddery, it's in their little fifedom.

Andrew Fletcher

The problem is a lot of the SPADS neither respect nor fear Cameron - sad but true

He is seen as not having much authority within the parliamentary party and a declining popularity amongst the electorate

This could have a negative impact on the reform agenda

Widmerpool

So what if he is a Flashman he's our Flashman!
Just what we need IMHO to stand up to the bullying Germans!

Good on yer Dave don't take any nonesense on Tobin Tax or contributing to EU bailout!

Michael

This odd Hilton fellow is still around is he? Didn't he mastermind the disastrous election campaign with Coulson? Why is he still there?

student

Which one told you about the meeting James!?

Verity

Michael, yes, very odd. Even odder, Davey Dim was stupid enough to employ him as an election advisor, thereby cutting what should have been a gigantic majority to a pathetic near loss. Again, an appalling reflection on Davey Dim's judgement.