Cameron shows his true colours with his "fat speech"

....Well, apparently Cameron has confided to intimates: "I suppose it will always be known as the "fat speech" now" - so who am I to disappoint him?

The Sunday Times sees the speech as the "third great moment" of his leadership of the Conservative party.

On the other hand, Jon Cruddas has an article in the Sunday Mirror entitled: "Cam shows his true colours":

I give him credit for saying what he really thinks. The point, however, is that this week the veil slipped - the real David Cameron stepped up. To me it undermined a lot of the positive work he had been doing over the last year or so.

Part of my anger is undoubtedly because of his background.

David Cameron went to a school where the fee alone is more than double what someone on the minimum wage gets for a year of graft.

It's a lot easier to stay healthy and in work when you're born into that kind of money, so he should be a bit careful lecturing the rest of us. He has no real knowledge of generational poverty or poor public services that you have to rely on... on the numbing effects of a chronic lack of social mobility and real opportunity... nor the day-to-day grind and struggle to make ends meet But it isn't about Cameron himself.

The big problem with Cameron's views isn't that they stick in the throat coming from him. It's that they are plain wrong.

I don't buy the idea that people living on the minimum wage or less are there because they deserve it, while people like Cameron are rich because they tried harder. It seems that he's going back to Thatcher's idea that "there's no such thing as society". The Tory view is that you fend for yourself, and if you fall down, well, it's sad, but it's your own fault.

I take the opposite view - we're stronger when we work together than we are on our own. That's why I have always been in a trade union, but it's also the principle behind local community groups, and ultimately it's what government is for too. And it is no surprise that David Cameron wants to cut back on the role of the government in terms of health, education, tax credits and other benefits.

Take family values for example.

Cameron says he's for them. But if you're a mum working 40-odd hours in a shop, you need the flexibility to take a few days off if your kid has stressful exams or is ill. A good parent wants to help their kid revise or get well again - but at the moment only parents with decent jobs and good wages can afford to take the time off. Cameron's Tories would scream blue murder about red tape, but to me that's what real family values are about.

Inequality is the fundamental issue. The richer someone is, the longer they are likely to live - it's poverty that's the real killer.

Behind Cameron's repackaging of the Tories is the same old brutal right-wing dogma.

The penny dropped for me this week.