So-he called an arguably unnecessary referendum, a tactic which ended in personal failure. He highlighted the need for the Big Society, which fell into oblivion. He styled himself as a normal bloke and rode a bike to work, only to be ridiculed when it was noted that his car was following him behind. He was an Old Etonian who surrounded himself with toffs and was accused by a fellow MP of not knowing the price of milk.
He promised change but, on his watch, the gap between rich and poor grew bigger. He oversaw the introduction of gay marriage. He was classed as an articulate speaker but (in my view at least!) was regularly outclassed by "weird" Ed Milliband at PMQs.
That's my take on Cameron's incumbency: what's yours?
Cameron's main legacy will be holding the referendum which has resulted in us leaving the EU. This will be the biggest issue for many years. Dismantling the welfare state will seem minor in comparison to Brexit, I believe.
Cameron's main legacy will be holding the referendum which has resulted in us leaving the EU. This will be the biggest issue for many years. Dismantling the welfare state will seem minor in comparison to Brexit, I believe.
No I didn't see that. Is it more of who you know? Will watch the link to the end. I know you and I disagree on a lot of things but you have no idear how angry this makes me.
Theresa May should come to the rescue. One of her big things in her speech was about housing, and how impossible it is for youngsters to get somewhere decenht to live.
I just couldn't listen to anymore knowing that absolutely nothing will change. Once again it's taxpayers money so it doesn't matter. I did get over half way through it. The part where I gave up was when the foreign chap was going to buy a station and more or less given an interest free loan from our government.
So we need to try and do something about it. Switching channels is not good enough. I wonder if weownit will try to do something. I'd be surprised if 38 degrees wasn't on to it, as well.
durhamjen I always watch dispatches, and I can honestly say that this was the first time that I've switched channels: i just couldn't watch anymore of what has been happening. I am incensed over this waste/ corruption etc.
Did anyone watch Dispatches this week, about the amount of land that the Ministry of Defence has sold off for housing which has not been built? It's worth watching.
Cameron said his legacy would be 100,000 houses built, but so far it's been sold off for half its value. and less than half the number of houses have been built. Some land was bought and hotels built on it instead of affordable homes. 3 million people on council waiting lists.
Gordon Brown didn't introduce top ups to working families' low pay. Family Credit had existed from the 1970s to top up families with low pay. It was the Conservative Chancellors before 1997 who first suggested and worked on the details of the concept of Working Tax Credit, which Gordon Brown implemented.
Sorry, but it's something which really bugs me. People don't seem to be able to mention tax credits without mentioning Gordon Brown in the same breath.
Yes, I think it was Gordon Brown who coined the phrase but it wasn't meant to be used quite so unthinkingly. Afaik, it was in relation to Tax Credits, which he introduced to top up working families' low pay.
Nowadays if you dare to be disabled, redundant, ill, old or otherwise "unable to make a contribution" you're written off as a freeloader.
To be absolutely accurate, I'm pretty sure that it was Gordon Brown who coined the phrase about 'hard working families'. The one that stands out for me is, 'We're all in it together'!! Blatantly untrue and I think, the most stupid comment I've ever heard!
Not bright enough for his handlers to trust him in a head to head TV debate with Miliband - who is a great deal brighter I think. TriciaF
Maybe the PM who lied the most to the electorate? Starting with things like Greenest government ever No top-down reorganisation of NHS NHS safe in his hands etc etc etc
5 NHS trusts and 9 CCGs put into special measures last month. Is yours one of them? It just proves they are stripping the NHS ready for full scale privatisation. Cameron's real legacy.