Cameron's inflated ego

[boyfriday]

It does rather look as though the jogger ran into him deliberately on the video, but images can be deceptive. What if jogger was taking a shortcut across some grass round a corner? We just don't know

 

Even if it was innocent, a member of the public shouldn't be able to get so close to the PM or senior minister, personally I think it's appropriate that he/she is able to travel without being hindered by traffic delays or misguided joggers, prospective terrorists must have lamented the loss of an opportunity to secure some sensational column inches.

[muddycoffee]

Even if it was innocent, a member of the public shouldn't be able to get so close to the PM or senior minister,.

I profoundly disagree.

Obviously personal safety should be ensured, however the main thing wrong with National Politics today is that Ministers do not spend enough time with normal people.

 

Rather than Prime Minister's Question Time which nowadays is a complete farce. We should have the Prime Minister answering questions directly from the great british public in a different city each week.

If these privileged people actually met real public every week they would be better able to understand why fewer and fewer people can be bothered to vote. They feel distant and ignored by the prime minister and other leading MPs

[tinfoilhat]

I profoundly disagree.

Obviously personal safety should be ensured, however the main thing wrong with National Politics today is that Ministers do not spend enough time with normal people.

 

Rather than Prime Minister's Question Time which nowadays is a complete farce. We should have the Prime Minister answering questions directly from the great british public in a different city each week.

If these privileged people actually met real public every week they would be better able to understand why fewer and fewer people can be bothered to vote. They feel distant and ignored by the prime minister and other leading MPs

 

Of course they should meet the great unwashed and PMs often have throughout the ages. I bet Cameron was talking to various members of the public about a variety of boring topics. But it would have been in a controlled environment - maybe even seated - but not a sprint after being knocked over first.

[lines]

Is there no limit to how low this despicable can stoop? Apart from reacting like a startled little 5 year old girl when some random jogger bumped into him, who was unarmed but subsequently arrested and probably now languishing in some cold damp dungeon, Cameron jumping 4 feet into the air, ran frightened, begging the jogger not to hurt him, to his armour-plated limo and just stood there waiting for someone to open the door for him. Now it seems he claims he has been forced into using to police outriders, who conveniently hold up all the traffic and stop people minding their own business by walking down the same street, and all undoubtedly at the taxpayers’ expense.

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2815555/Cameron-forced-bring-motorbike-outriders-jogger-ran-sparking-calls-major-security-inquest.html

 

I take it you think Ed Miliband would be refusing this protection if he were to get elected as the leader of this country?

 

Also note the articles title, "forced", so its clearly not Cameron's ego in question here!

[Mecky]

I take it you think Ed Miliband would be refusing this protection if he were to get elected as the leader of this country?

 

Also note the articles title, "forced", so its clearly not Cameron's ego in question here!

 

Didn't someone say something like "but it's not is it?"

[lines]

Didn't someone say something like "but it's not is it?"

 

Are you on something, explain a bit better please.

 

But if I do actually understand, name any prominant politician without an ego as big as yours? Just a simple Prime Minister will do....!

[boyfriday]

I profoundly disagree.

Obviously personal safety should be ensured, however the main thing wrong with National Politics today is that Ministers do not spend enough time with normal people.

 

Rather than Prime Minister's Question Time which nowadays is a complete farce. We should have the Prime Minister answering questions directly from the great british public in a different city each week.

If these privileged people actually met real public every week they would be better able to understand why fewer and fewer people can be bothered to vote. They feel distant and ignored by the prime minister and other leading MPs

 

You might be right muddycoffee, however the security of elected leaders should take precedence over their soap box appearances amongst the general public. The political, constitutional, social, financial and economic consequences of the prime minister being assasinated are profound and it can so much more easily be achieved now than say 30 years ago.

[thorphanger]

Is there no limit to how low this despicable can stoop? Apart from reacting like a startled little 5 year old girl when some random jogger bumped into him, who was unarmed but subsequently arrested and probably now languishing in some cold damp dungeon, Cameron jumping 4 feet into the air, ran frightened, begging the jogger not to hurt him, to his armour-plated limo and just stood there waiting for someone to open the door for him. Now it seems he claims he has been forced into using to police outriders, who conveniently hold up all the traffic and stop people minding their own business by walking down the same street, and all undoubtedly at the taxpayers’ expense.

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2815555/Cameron-forced-bring-motorbike-outriders-jogger-ran-sparking-calls-major-security-inquest.html

 

Your thread is really comical when you deride David Cameron over something which could have been a very serious and nasty situation and then we see the pictures of Ed Milliband giving 2p yes 2p to the woman begging. Have you ever seen body language like it. It was as if the woman had some sort of disease and he couldn't wait to get away from her.

[WageSlave]

Your thread is really comical when you deride David Cameron over something which could have been a very serious and nasty situation and then we see the pictures of Ed Milliband giving 2p yes 2p to the woman begging. Have you ever seen body language like it. It was as if the woman had some sort of disease and he couldn't wait to get away from her.

 

And he only gave the begger some money after realising photographers were present. He walked past her at first then noticed he was been photographed and backtracked.

[muddycoffee]

You might be right muddycoffee, however the security of elected leaders should take precedence over their soap box appearances amongst the general public. The political, constitutional, social, financial and economic consequences of the prime minister being assasinated are profound and it can so much more easily be achieved now than say 30 years ago.

Once again I must respectfully disagree.

In centuries past our Head of state had to be on the actual battlefield in mortal danger when we were at war. Meanwhile today, the Prime Minister is nothing more than a pointy head in a suit with a room full of advisers, and years of media training telling him what to say. If he was assassinated, then they would just replace him with another copy from the same class and club.

Aside from all the resulting furore following an assassination and most likely a further loss of liberty for the average citizen, the average man in the street would notice no difference at all.

 

I'd be very much in favour of making it part of the constitution that the serving prime minister and all the cabinet must spend some time making themselves available for normal people to shout at them and demand answers to their questions. These people must be made to justify their decisions, not left to change people's lives by new policy while they chillax playing on their iPad in the evenings not really caring.