Mike Smithson has written an excellent piece on Political Betting about Cameron's "responsibilty" speech yesterday. He quotes the Times headline: "Cameron tells fat and poor: Take responsibility" and uses the caption: "How will the poor takes lessons on their plight from an Old-Etonian?".
Incidentally, it is odd that this Cameron coverage coincides with a Tim Montgomery Comment is Free article saying that the Tories are "A new party for the poor". However, it could be said that the Tories are making themselves the party to tell the poor to get off their behinds.
Mike Smithson comments:
A day after Gordon Brown was lecturing us about not wasting food the Times is splashing Cameron’s speech yesterday when he said that some of those “who are poor, fat or addicted to alcohol or drugs have only themselves to blame.”
Just reading the article you can see this approach appealing to the core Tory vote - but what about others? And Cameron himself is getting onto pretty thin ice when he talks about poverty.
In the hard world of politics there are enough things in the speech for his opponents to latch onto which when separated from the overall theme might not look so defensible.
I just wonder whether the appalling spate of bad news and poor ratings for Brown and Labour has made the Tory leader a bit too confident. Dangerous.
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