Should David Cameron apologise?

[slimsid2000]

for calling people "scroungers".

 

It is hardly Prime Ministerial language for a start. It is the sort of thing you would expect to hear from a pub bore or such like. Is this really how he thinks of his fellow countrymen?

 

And, if he really dislikes 'scrounging' why has he claimed 20 grand a year himself to pay off a mortgage on some posh house he has bought at the taxpayers expense?

 

I think he should be forced to issue a public apology for his choice of language. Do you?

[Ousetunes]

No I don't.

 

Next pointless poll....

[daftlad]

all mps that claim expenses are scroungers. if you cant manage on £64k minimum a year, then there is something seriously wrong with you

[slimsid2000]

I think it wrong for somebody as high up as the PM to use the language of the gutter in some vain popularist attempt to appear a man of the people (which he is not anyway).

[Magilla]

for calling people "scroungers".

 

It is hardly Prime Ministerial language for a start.

 

Isn't it? It seems pretty unambiguous and to the point. What word you you use instead?

 

I think he should be forced to issue a public apology for his choice of language. Do you?

 

No.. why should he?

[slimsid2000]

Isn't it? It seems pretty unambiguous and to the point. What word you you use instead?

 

 

 

 

If an employee of the DWP used that language (at least publically) it would be a dicaplinary matter. As head of the Govt. Cameron should have at least equal standards. I'm sure if he used a derogatory term for black or gay people he would get a lot of stick for it so why not this. It is a matter of simple respect and curtesy.

[Magilla]

If an employee of the DWP used that language (at least publically) it would be a dicaplinary matter. As head of the Govt. Cameron should have at least equal standards. I'm sure if he used a derogatory term for black or gay people he would get a lot of stick for it so why not this. It is a matter of simple respect and curtesy.

 

So you can't think of an alternative that sums up his meaning adequately then?

[slimsid2000]

So you can't think of an alternative that sums up his meaning adequately then?

 

The DWP call them customers. I guess claimants would be a pretty neutral and unoffensive term. 'Scroungers' is delibertely insulting and Cameron knew that full well before he said it.

[Ousetunes]

Of course, Gordon Brown would never stoop so low would he?

 

(Only to his own voters, perhaps.)

[Titanic99]

Of course, Gordon Brown would never stoop so low would he?

 

(Only to his own voters, perhaps.)

 

I thought Gordon Brown had apologised to the lady he called a "Bigot".