Our Political Elite

When I was in Finland in 2016 I was working with an old gentleman carpenter who could not speak a word of English, just as I could not speak any Finnish but we got on together as fellow workmen by nods and grunts, however, the following day he came up to me and said "David Cameron" telling me that he was aware that he knew the prime minister of England and I smiled my admiration of his knowledge, and I thought that it was a nice gesture of attempted communication.  Let's take a look at Lord David Cameron, but first let me just tell you of my understanding of Lords and England's peers of the realm. Back in the 90s I found myself working for a Lord and his title was Lord Morris of Newfoundland inherited from his grandfather who built the railway system in Newfoundland. Unfortunately he was one of the names who invested their money in Lloyd's of London and lost everything in the crash and consequently became bankrupt.  The rules of the aristocracy state that no one should attend the house of Lords if they are bankrupt. I find this hilarious because as far as I'm aware the house of Lords is full of men far worse than mere bankrupts. Back to Lord Cameron and let me just say I give him his full title but I most certainly don't recognise it as anything other than privilege. Let's go back in time when he was Prime Minister.  The bedroom tax he tried to implement. The cut in housing benefit for council house tenants with a spare room was never going to save enough money to make up for the damage to the reputation of Cameron’s government. The savings were about half a billion pounds a year, a sum which could have easily been raised by withdrawing the winter fuel allowance from richer pensioners, and there are many of them, that's for sure. Cutting the top rate of tax on salaries over 150000 a year while implementing tax credit cuts.This time they proposed huge cuts to tax credits for the working poor, which were postponed by Tory peers and others in the House of Lords. They do sometimes get things right. Finally, the bigget one of all.  Cameron promised the referendum on leaving the EU for reasons of party management, but if he hadn’t, he wouldn’t have won the 2015 election. It is hard to argue that a political leader should set out to lose an election in order to avoid giving the British people the right to a say on a question on which they most definitely wanted a say in. Incidentally we still haven't left the EU 100 % and are tied to many of the EU rules and life in general for us Brits is made very awkward by the EU purely because we dared to leave.Insider dealing.David Cameron made about  ($7m) from Greensill Capital before the finance company collapsed.Documents indicate the former prime minister received $4.5m after cashing in Greensill shares in 2019.Greensill, which made its money by lending to businesses, went into administration in March, leaving investors facing billions in losses, while Cameron made a mint. The subsequent inquiry found him not guilty of any wrong doing or insider dealing but I'm guessing those investors who went broke felt very differently about that.  The post office debacle. David Cameron has said he cannot remember “in any detail” being briefed about the Horizon scandal while he was prime minister. Oh really? Tell that to the postmasters who suffered ruin. No politician is going to admit knowledge of it because the scapegoats are lined up to take the rap. Now while I'm at it let's not forget Teresa May who became PM after Camerons resignation over brexit lets not forget her involvement in this debacle,  she was the one who pushed hard for Paula Vennells to be awarded the CBE and therefore should bare some responsibility of her actions.  Back to Lord Cameron  and his recent promotion to Foreign Secretary who may have just made his biggest blunder yet by bombing Yemen. This action can only be described as lunacy and frighteningly backed by both sides of Parliament.  What should be happening is the condemnation of Israel and its ongoing genocide in Palestine. Why don't they call for a cease fire?Simply because everyone is scared shitless of being called anti-Semitic just as many have succumbed to and consequently have ruined political careers. I encourage any one to look up the meaning of Semite because it may surprise you to learn that a member any of the peoples who speak a Semetic language,  including in particular the Jews and Arabs. The name comes via Latin from Greek Sēm or Shem, son of Noah from whom these people were traditionally descended. So anti-Semite is basically at least ironic or maybe an oxymoron.....just as "deafening silence" is and "Don't worry about the war, its all over bar the shooting"So take care and don't forget "we all stand together alone" and the most revealing of all oxymoron's. "Honest Politicians "