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    An Open Letter to David Cameron’s Parents

    August 10, 2011 in whingeing | Tags: #ukriots, Andy Hayman, Bernie Ecclestone, boris johnson, corruption, david cameron, ed vaizey, Hazel Blears, London, Michael Gove, Tony Blair, uk riots

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    Dear Mr & Mrs Cameron,
    Why did you never take the time to teach your child basic morality?
    As a young man, he was in a gang that regularly smashed up private property. We know that you were absent parents who left your child to be brought up by a school rather than taking responsibility for his behaviour yourselves. The fact that he became a delinquent with no sense of respect for the property of others can only reflect that fact that you are terrible, lazy human beings who failed even in teaching your children the difference between right and wrong. I can only assume that his contempt for the small business owners of Oxford is indicative of his wider values.
    Even worse, your neglect led him to fall in with a bad crowd. He became best friends with a young man who set fire to buildings for fun. And others:
    There’s Michael Gove, whose wet-lipped rage was palpable on Newsnight last night. This is the Michael Gove who confused one of his houses with another of his houses in order to avail himself of £7,000 of the taxpayers’ money to which he was not entitled (or £13,000, depending on which house you think was which).
    Or Hazel Blears, who was interviewed in full bristling peahen mode for almost all of last night. She once forgot which house she lived in, and benefited to the tune of £18,000. At the time she said it would take her reputation years to recover. Unfortunately not.
    But, of course, this is different. This is just understandable confusion over the rules of how many houses you are meant to have as an MP. This doesn’t show the naked greed of people stealing plasma tellies.
    Unless you’re Gerald Kaufman, who broke parliamentary rules to get £8,000 worth of 40-inch, flat screen, Bang and Olufsen TV out of the taxpayer.
    Or Ed Vaizey, who got £2,000 in antique furniture ‘delivered to the wrong address’. Which is fortunate, because had that been the address they were intended for, that would have been fraud.
    Or Jeremy Hunt, who broke the rules to the tune of almost £20,000 on one property and £2,000 on another. But it’s all right, because he agreed to pay half of the money back. Not the full amount, it would be absurd to expect him to pay back the entire sum that he took and to which he was not entitled. No, we’ll settle for half. And, as in any other field, what might have been considered embezzlement of £22,000 is overlooked. We know, after all, that David Cameron likes to give people second chances.
    Fortunately, we have the Met Police to look after us. We’ll ignore the fact that two of its senior officers have had to resign in the last six weeks amid suspicions of widespread corruption within the force.
    We’ll ignore Andy Hayman, who went for champagne dinners with those he was meant to be investigating, and then joined the company on leaving the Met.
    Of course, Mr and Mrs Cameron, your son is right. There are parts of society that are not just broken, they are sick. Riddled with disease from top to bottom.
    Just let me be clear about this (It’s a good phrase, Mr and Mrs Cameron, and one I looted from every sentence your son utters, just as he looted it from Tony Blair), I am not justifying or minimising in any way what has been done by the looters over the last few nights. What I am doing, however, is expressing shock and dismay that your son and his friends feel themselves in any way to be guardians of morality in this country.
    Can they really, as 650 people who have shown themselves to be venal pygmies, moral dwarves at every opportunity over the last 20 years, bleat at others about ‘criminality’. Those who decided that when they broke the rules (the rules they themselves set) they, on the whole wouldn’t face the consequences of their actions?
    Are they really surprised that this country’s culture is swamped in greed, in the acquisition of material things, in a lust for consumer goods of the most base kind? Really?
    Let’s have a think back: cash-for-questions; Bernie Ecclestone; cash-for-access; Mandelson’s mortgage; the Hinduja passports; Blunkett’s alleged insider trading (and, by the way, when someone has had to resign in disgrace twice can we stop having them on television as a commentator, please?); the meetings on the yachts of oligarchs; the drafting of the Digital Economy Act with Lucian Grange; Byers’, Hewitt’s & Hoon’s desperation to prostitute themselves and their positions; the fact that Andrew Lansley (in charge of NHS reforms) has a wife who gives lobbying advice to the very companies hoping to benefit from the NHS reforms. And that list didn’t even take me very long to think of.
    Our politicians are for sale and they do not care who knows it.
    Oh yes, and then there’s the expenses thing. Widescale abuse of the very systems they designed, almost all of them grasping what they could while they remained MPs, to build their nest egg for the future at the public’s expense. They even now whine on Twitter about having their expenses claims for getting back to Parliament while much of the country is on fire subject to any examination. True public servants.
    The last few days have revealed some truths, and some heartening truths. The fact that the #riotcleanup crews had organised themselves before David Cameron even made time for a public statement is heartening. The fact that local communities came together to keep their neighbourhoods safe when the police failed is heartening. The fact that there were peace vigils being organised (even as the police tried to dissuade people) is heartening.
    There is hope for this country. But we must stop looking upwards for it. The politicians are the ones leading the charge into the gutter.
    David Cameron was entirely right when he said: “It is a complete lack of responsibility in parts of our society, people allowed to think that the world owes them something, that their rights outweigh their responsibilities, and that their actions do not have consequences.”
    He was more right than he knew.
    And I blame the parents.



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    About the writer of the above piece:

    http://nathanieltapley.com/



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    same go's for Australia


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    do you think Cameron's mother will read it?



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    Quote Originally Posted by brummie View Post
    do you think Cameron's mother will read it?
    she probably knows her son is a prat


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    Make your MP work

    Don't vote for them



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    In view of the simple fact that David Cameron's father died last year, a fact that is easily checked, Mr and Mrs Cameron are unlikely to respond. I don't vote for the Conservatives and I agree that the moral tone of the government has been compromised by the expenses scandal, the phone hacking and police corruption issues. So he did some daft things when he was young, so did I; big deal. He did not fiddle his expenses, he is happily married and probably a good dad; he might not be in possession of the greatest intellect in the world and be a victim of his own poor judgements, but condeming him for a youthful misdemeanor is a bit silly, and most of this 'open letter' isn't even about the boy David. Its as trivial as picking on Palin and Bachmann because they are women. Some things are too important to be left to journalists and bloggers. Let the people sing!



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    i usually don't vote labour or liberal[conservative] in Australia.i vote gun party or one nation,anti immigration i know they will never get in but its the only parties with balls


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    Quote Originally Posted by russtafa View Post
    i usually don't vote labour or liberal[conservative] in Australia.i vote gun party or one nation,anti immigration i know they will never get in but its the only parties with balls
    We're all immigrants in America. Except for Native Americans. And Blacks, black slaves.
    But we must remember that Christopher Columbus did not "discover" America. He invaded. It was a full scale invasion.
    He was also a slave trader. He committed genocide. Millions of Native Americans were killed.
    It isn't a pretty picture.
    And, well, free trade, the core of free trade, according to Adam Smith (the so-called Father of Capitalism; but it's wrong to assume that as he was quite anti-capitalist in nature), was the free circulation of labor. Meaning you can go anywhere you want. That's free trade. Again, the core, the very core of free trade is the free circulation of labor.
    We, in America, and also England, etc. have free capital movement. Which harms countries. As the likes of Microsoft and Home Depot simply offshore capital to create economic activity in China, in India, in Indonesia, etc. etc.
    Adam Smith thought that the free movement of capital and the free import of goods would harm England. But he thought investors would have a home bias. (Remember this goes back to 1776 and is very applicable today.)
    The term invisible hand means that countries would be spared the menace of free capital movement and the free import of goods.
    That's invisible hand.
    Anyway, the point being: what's harming America and Australia and England is free capital movement and the free import of goods. That's the menace.



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    my people were slave traders and mercenaries .truly great people my ancestors ,love em


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