Going mainstream
Monday 23 April 2012
We were by no means alone in 2005, but I think we were definitely ahead of most of the field in our detestation of "Boy King" Cameron and the preposterous Osborne. And by 2006, I was calling The Boy, "Shallow Dave", referring to the foetid, claustrophobic obsessions of party politics.
Now, it would appear, others are catching up, with Nadine Dorries telling us:
Unfortunately, I think that not only are Cameron and Osborne two posh boys who don't know the price of milk, but they are two arrogant posh boys who show no remorse, no contrition, and no passion to want to understand the lives of others - and that is their real crime.But what are far more interesting are the comments, nearly 300 at the time of writing. There is a large measure of agreement, and a degree of hostility that was not anything like as sharp even six months ago. The Boy is losing it.
Then, so is the Failygraph, which is plumbing new depths in sycophancy: "David Cameron, the wondrous workhorse", writes Michael Deacon, in a stomach-churning piece of prose.
We are now in what the Chinese call "interesting times". It is a bit early in the electoral cycle to have reach this level of hostility for The Great Leader – with the hostility of the last lot still undiminished. Thus, detestation of this lot is not automatically going to translate into support for the opposition.
With Cameron is offending too many people, too early in the cycle, and EURef, going mainstream, the MSM is going to have to concede to popular sentiment, or it will continue to look as out of touch as the "posh boys".
And, as and when the MSM does catch up, as the Daily Fail looks as if it is doing, I think we will genuinely be in uncharted waters. Interesting times indeed.
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Richard North 23/04/2012
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