The Daily Mail lauds Cameron as a real leader

AlanofEngland

"...Brown has been exceptionally unlucky.." Really? It seems to me he is totally out of his depth, he's over-rated, he's inefficient, he's not a super economist, he's a liar, he has no discernable skills, he's obnoxious, he's......useless!

John

Just beat me to that, Alan, but why 'inefficient'? He is the very epitome of incompetence. He has been incredibly lucky to advance anywhere near his current position. He is underqualified to be a ticket inspector.

cuffleyburgers

When people talk about Gordon Brown being unlucky I am minded of a very great golfer who, having holed out from off the green, overheard someone in the crowd remark how lucky that had been, and replied to the effect that maybe he had been lucky but the more he practiced the luckier he got.

Mr Brown was lucky for ten years to have inherited a healthy economy and to have the chinese economic miracle holding down prices. This meant that his credit boom didn't lead to the inflation one would normally have expected.

This meant that for most of the period of his chancellorship te normal rules were suspended and he raised taxes and bought votes and generally comported himself in a manner that would have embarassed a drunken sailor.

He (or rather poor old Darling and in actual fact, we)is now reaping the effects of this incompetence and this, combined with his utter uselessness as a statesman is making him look exceedingly foolish.

He was even lucky enough to have a couple of good crises to deal with gravely shortly after his accession.

To sum up, he has had loads of luck and has squandered the lot.

Man's useless.

Annabel Herriott

And Ed Balls dare not appear on "Today", leaving the field clear for the excellent Michael Gove to do a complete hatchet job on the disasterous marking system that has not delivered.

Chuck Unsworth

"From the very beginning, this paper has supported David Cameron."

Astounding! This is unadulterated garbage. Right from the outset Dacre and his henchpersons had nothing good to say about Cameron. Now, when it's clear that he's a winner, The Mail postures that it has 'always' supported him. Is there no limit to Dacre's gut-wrenching hypocrisy?

There was a time when The Mail had a decent reputation for honesty, even some integrity. This latest move has destroyed the last vestiges. The Mail is now a cheap comic.

Mike, Brighton

Dacre put in a rider in the last paragraph for his big friend Brown. However his subs should have changed "unlucky" to "incompetent" to make the piece more accurate.

Trumpeter Lanfried

Brown has also lost the Murdoch press. Hostile vibes on every page of The Times nowadays.

cuffleyburgers

Trumpeter - but it's not the Times that counts, anyone with a brain has worked it out.

The one that counts is the Sun, so we can expect a campaign of even more brainless populism to keep them on board

Chris Heathcote

"From the very beginning, this paper has supported David Cameron."

Rubbish - they endorsed Ken Clarke in the leadership election!

Ian C

Chuck - quite right the Daily Fascist was a very early sceptic. As indeed were many of us - especially when he went the green route to sanitising the Tory image. For me, I am old enough to have an automatic and natural scepticism about any politician until they prove themselves worthy of encouragement and then a vote.

My vote was let down by Major. Hague and Howard were always going to lose because of the majorities they needed to overturn.

Cameron has done alot to return trust to the Tory Party as said above, but he must never be given unconditional support as record numbers gave Major in 1992. We would have been better off with Kinnock for 5 years as he would not have survived in/to 1997. Look where we are as a result......

The Labour Party are in the midst of doing just such a calculation, and this autumn they must reach a conclusion.

Maisie W

Chuck How right you are, columnists Ben Brogan Amanda Patell and Dacre all Brown noses. I stopped buying the Mail at the election between David Davis and David Cameron because of the viciousness of the comment against Cameron

Verity

Cuffleyburgers - The accurate version of your golfer vignette comes from, I believe, around the 1940s in the US. The name of the American squillionaire escapes me, although I have a feeling he was Jewish. Anyway, he was very, very rich and famous and a newspaper reporters said to him, "Aren't you lucky!" And the man replied, "Yes, and I've noticed that the harder I work, the luckier I get."

Travis Bickle

Hilary Benn has managed to alienate the Sun and its readership with his silly nonsense about high fuel prices being a good thing.

Anan

To Ian C, yes I do remember how many, many "Conservatives" took every chance to ridicule Cameron once they found out he wasn't going to take the William Hague route of "vote Tory to save the pound." This anger at ol' Dave was especially dangerous for the party when coupled with unquestioning belief in poll after poll which created a completely fake Labour boost from within 3 hours of Bowser Brown's taking over. To you and many other similarly foolish people, the fact that most of the polling companies are biased towards Labour was of no importance.

I am glad to say that I supported David Cameron from the outset, against the wails and cries of a sluggish Conservative supporter base that could not understand the world we live in, and the enemies of reason we face in political parties, newspapers and television are far different from and far more savage than those of your "good old days." I knew from the very beginning that Cameron had the skills and intelligence to bring about a Conservative revival. My posts in support of Dave through thick and thin are archived on this website for any to see.