A tree and a web
2 October 2006 @ 9:56
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Just as you get fearful the Tories might actually be winning ground in the elective stakes they have a conference! Just as you think things cannot get more horrific than their new “caring” tree emblem, they announce webcameron. Webcameron?! Who thought that up? This smacks of William Haugue in a baseball cap at Notting Hill carnival all over again. And is only topped up by the fact that Cameron was on the telly all weekend mocking Gordon Brown for mentioning - albeit derisively - the Arctic Monkeys. Wasn’t Mr Cameron the first politician to claim to be a Monkeys man? I seem to remember, not so long ago he shouted something along those lines whilst cycling past of his oh-so-green bicycle… Brown may be boring and have been boring at conference, but at least he hasn’t attempted to “get down with the young ones” by setting up, say, Brolog or Chancellor Anglaise or Deputy With a One Track Mind… Two words of advice, Mr Cameron. 1. Most people involved deeply with green issues will never vote for your party on principle. 2. Internet/pop culture references are not the way to get young people involved in politics, nor to vote for you. You go around praising the Iraq war, probably the one issue that has politicised young people in this country and keep mentioning the evils of nuclear. Which, if you were “down with the kids” you would probably know doesn’t really bother most people younger than myself, because they are too busy living the new right dream: I can do whatever I want, it is my right as an individual. |
